Lol, forgive me I have a hard time believing this. A retired woman driving 8-10 hours a day around the country in an EV? Haha was she using A/C, heat, lights, and the radio too?
She really really did. 6500 miles total loop around the country east coast to west and back, and bunch in between. My sister. A/C, heat, cellphone, everything. Believe it or not those things don't use much compared to the 16-20kW needed to go 70 MPH. On occasion drives 720 mile day to get here, or here to home. Currently driving a new Tesla Model S. I only have a lowly Model Y, formerly an ol
A 600 mile day is easier if one stops 2-3 times. Try it sometime. Even on 400 or 500 mile days. EV or ICE.
That's like saying I run a lawn service with an EV zero turn. Maybe it's possible, but I never saw a lawnman driving one yet. The EV lawnmower has swappable batteries too lol.
You are only looking at the toy box store battery mowers.
There are professional grade battery electric zero turns with 60-72" decks that can mow 8-10 hours nonstop. It would be hard to justify their cost unless one could sell one's services at a premium for lower noise and/or just have rich clientele who will pay to be "green".
While it would be "hard to justify the cost", a large lawn service needs one of the current professional grade battery electric mowers for no other reason than to learn just what the cost really is.
Honda is not the only one taking battery electric mowers seriously. Bad Boy has serious metal battery ZTRs coming. Sadly they appear to be Greenworks powered. Am not terribly enthused by Greenworks' batteries but with luck they will prove me wrong. Greenworks is trying hard to be everyone's OEM, use Greenworks to get in the business quickly with low NRE. Would have liked to see Tesla sell electric motors with integrated speed controllers that fit common V-twin industrial engine bolt pattern and shaft sizes.
