Andrew, good link. This thread now has 308k views. There is a lot of interest in the subject obviously but until you can fit a thousand miles of supply into a reliable storage battery the size of travel suitcase, i don’t think it will float.
Something relevant I can personally relate to. I have just gone through the exercise of replacing our lawn mower. We had a small cheap 240v corded mower to do our small patch of footpath (I got rid of all grass on the property 25 years ago …I’m a boaty
who wants to mow)
Some years ago our situation changed and the bush area that’s adjacent to our property ceased to be maintained by the private owner. This quickly went from being grass to a fire hazard. Not to be outdone by adding rodents and snakes to the mix. I bought a cheap secondhand self propelled off gummy and maintained a wide strip of it as a firebreak for a few years with the the owners concurrence, and on the condition I can park my boat trailers there. It also did my footpath. This worked ok till the mower died a few months ago. I thought I’d replace it with a new self propelled electric that used the same batteries as my power tools as I have several high amp hour batteries and a charger already and they would all be interchangeable.
On doing the net and YouTube research however including talking to other E battery powered mower owners the joy wasn’t there. Neighbours who had one, said they pushed theirs most of the time and only used the self propelled to go up hills otherwise it was not sufficient range to do their whole lawn even with dual batteries.
Lawn Contractors doing reviews with high hopes for the electric. said they had reverted to their Honda professional grade self propelled as the E mowers were not up to scratch other than for well maintained lawn. Which is what we bought. Honda, self propelled, key start, multiple speed four stroke. I have to fight the Mrs now as she enjoys doing the lawn. Idea also being that if my health deteriorated she could continue to maintain the property ok till we relocate. I like to think of it as an investment in staying here a few more years. Also it only cost $100 more that a package deal electric SP with batteries and chargers.
As a side issue we recently stayed a weekend in inner city Sydney as part of our 45th Anniversary celebrations. The multi storey car park we used had four marked spaces on each level for charging EVs. On the day we arrived they were all marked “Out of Oder” on our floor, same the morning we left two days later. Dunno if the ones on the other levels were the same but this could seriously stuff your weekend up if you had traveled by EV.
We’ll get there eventually.
Maybe.
