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But in urban or suburban context a power outlet is never far away. We're speaking of people doing their lawns after all...

NDizzle 6y ago
You've never seen landscape crews making their rounds? New theft target when each one has to carry $8k worth of batteries in the truck/trailer to have enough juice to perform their normal task, which could have been performed by two 10 gallon jugs of gasoline.
- henearkr 6y ago
  Most of the time electric lawn-mowers are just using the mains and are powered through a cable. These kind of models exist since a very long time, and I was not thinking of any battery model when I wrote my comment.
  - NDizzle 6y ago
    So the dozens/hundreds of crews are just going to plug in anywhere/everywhere they can? That's not feasible.
    - henearkr 6y ago
      They did just that when they were mowing the lawns near my house when I was a kid. They would come to the school, plug in (and unroll partly a big portable extension cord), mow the lawn, move to the upper lawn, plug at a different outlet over there, etc. If at least they do it everywhere it's possible, that would already be great. Most of the time when I am distressed by the pollution and sound of a blower/mower there is an electrical outlet handy.
ganoushoreilly 6y ago
Not necessarily, we're talking about lawn care / outdoor maintenance. A lot of the maintenance I see invovles medians, communal areas etc. None of them are powered and would require substantial distances to outlets. When there is an outlet you then have to deal with Whom owns the outlet and pays the bill. For a single family home, this is fine. For townhomes, larger lot, commercial properties, this isn't as clear.
jascii 6y ago
A friend of mine ran a small landscaping business through college. You'd be surprised how many property owners would not let landscapers in the house to plug in extension cords, use the restroom, etc.

NDizzle 6y ago

You've never seen landscape crews making their rounds? New theft target when each one has to carry $8k worth of batteries in the truck/trailer to have enough juice to perform their normal task, which could have been performed by two 10 gallon jugs of gasoline.

henearkr 6y ago
Most of the time electric lawn-mowers are just using the mains and are powered through a cable. These kind of models exist since a very long time, and I was not thinking of any battery model when I wrote my comment.
- NDizzle 6y ago
  So the dozens/hundreds of crews are just going to plug in anywhere/everywhere they can? That's not feasible.
  - henearkr 6y ago
    They did just that when they were mowing the lawns near my house when I was a kid. They would come to the school, plug in (and unroll partly a big portable extension cord), mow the lawn, move to the upper lawn, plug at a different outlet over there, etc. If at least they do it everywhere it's possible, that would already be great. Most of the time when I am distressed by the pollution and sound of a blower/mower there is an electrical outlet handy.

ganoushoreilly 6y ago

Not necessarily, we're talking about lawn care / outdoor maintenance. A lot of the maintenance I see invovles medians, communal areas etc. None of them are powered and would require substantial distances to outlets. When there is an outlet you then have to deal with Whom owns the outlet and pays the bill. For a single family home, this is fine. For townhomes, larger lot, commercial properties, this isn't as clear.

jascii 6y ago

A friend of mine ran a small landscaping business through college. You'd be surprised how many property owners would not let landscapers in the house to plug in extension cords, use the restroom, etc.