Yes I find the battery version of the tools much more convenient. My drive was is over 75metres long so to use my blower I had 3 25M extension cords and still couldn't reach the end. The other thing I am going to love about the battery blower is taking it to the green waste with my trailer and then blowing the trailer clean before coming home.
I was going to go either Still or EGO and ended up with EGO.
My mum has a very small lawn and a corded lawnmower. But being very old she wants me to go over and mow it. I find the cord a real pain and I am worried I will run over it. I wish she had bought a battery mower but she would have bought the cheapest thing the shop had at the time.
Reading these replies and thinking about it I can afford to replace the batteries but hopefully will not have to for a very long time, but if I do and it works out much more than paying for petrol it is probably worth it for the convenience.
At the moment if I needed a new car I would consider the Tesla 3 being about the only decent option in Australia, VW will not sell us any as they want them all to help offset the CO2 tax and get the average for the fleet down, there is no benefit for them to sell us them so they probably never will until the European market is saturated. I assume that is the case for other manufacturers so I doubt we will get many options in Australia for a while, so I am hoping my current Skoda Octavia lasts another 5 years or more. But the odd article I see on battery cars still has me wondering, like Steve. Recently there was a guy who blew up his 2013 Tesla because it needed $22,000USD ($30,000AUD) worth of batteries. In 8 years of driving I have done 150,000km and used less than $15,000AUD of petrol. But am I comparing the wrong thing? Should I be comparing $15,000 of petrol to $6,000 of electricity (at 16kwh per 100km which the local Tesla shop told me is the economy) giving me a saving of $9,000 over 8 years plus servicing so about $15K to 20K depending on the cost of additional repairs. And then compare $30,000 worth of batteries against a $1000 petrol tank if either need replacing?
