Had an electric lawn mower for 2 years, then borrowed a neighbor's gas one

I compared both for my quarter acre yard outside Portland. The electric one was quieter and didn't need gas, but after 25 minutes the battery died and I had to wait 3 hours to recharge. My neighbor's gas mower cut the whole lawn in one go with no waiting. That trade off made me switch back to gas.

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morgan.jason11d ago

That battery anxiety is real. Last time I tried an electric mower I got so frustrated waiting for a recharge I sat down in the yard and just stared at the unmown grass for like 20 minutes feeling like a failure. Gas mowers aren't perfect either though, my neighbor once borrowed mine and flooded the carburetor so bad it smelled like a drag race for a week. But for a quarter acre, the convenience of just pouring gas and going is hard to beat.

emma_garcia11d ago

Gas mowers have that whole "I can fix this myself" vibe that electric stuff just doesn't lol. My dad spent a whole Saturday rebuilding a carburetor on his lawn tractor, kept muttering about how "they don't make em like this anymore" and then it still ran like garbage. It's wild how we accept all this extra hassle just because we're used to it. But with electric mowers and other battery stuff, you trade one kind of headache for another, like when my friend's e-bike died halfway up a hill and he had to push it home. It feels like every "convenient" option just has a new flavor of inconvenience baked in lol.

daniel_cooper3411d ago

Tbh the whole quarter acre thing is a bit misleading since most modern electric mowers can handle that on one charge easily. I've got about 8,000 sq ft and my EGO finishes with 40% battery left after doing the whole thing. The recharge time is annoying though, I'll give you that, but if you have two batteries you just swap and keep going while the other one charges. That staring at the grass for 20 minutes hits a little too close to home though lol.