05-18-2022, 09:25 AM
(05-17-2022, 06:47 PM)ac3r Wrote: That's fine for personal use, but landscaping companies that are doing large properties and/or many jobs in one day can't rely on batteries that last 1 hour or swapping them out non stop. Sometimes they're out there 10 hours a day going from job to job. The battery electric technology would need to improve before we started banning gas equipment.
The new electric truck market (I'm thinking specifically of the Ford F-150 Lightning) touts the plethora of electric receptacles on their trucks for running jobsites. I could see a landscaping company driving a truck around as a mobile power plant, and rotating out their batteries throughout the day. The could even use wired equipment plugged directly into the truck.
To quote this Global News article that I found while reading into this: "In most urban areas, Brauer estimates that lawn equipment would be contributing 10 to 20 per cent of overall emissions."
https://globalnews.ca/news/8328175/leaf-...pollution/
It's certainly not a perfect solution, but it's an important subject that needs to be addressed somehow.