On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 11:18:47 +0100
"NY" wrote:

Petrol will still prevail for cutting larger areas of grass where battery
capacity is nowhere near enough to cut the whole lot in one day without a
long recharge, and where you can't trail a very long mains cable that is
probably 100 metres or more.

I'm inclined to disagree, I picked up a battery lawnmower from one
of the Teutonic twins along with four batteries for it. Each battery only
lasts about 20-30 minutes of use so when it beeps pull the battery and put
in a fresh one. Of course this was only feasible because the batteries were
sensibly priced (90wh for ‚¬35) a lot of manufacturers seem to think that
batteries are razor blades.

It's also less effort to use and does a better job than the
self-propelled petrol lawnmower it replaces.

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