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I just used my 2406 w/ 4 x 10Amp batteries. I have an 18 car driveway and two sidewalks. I cleared everything using 20% of two batteries.

I haven't read all the comments, but one thing I noticed right away is that you have your charger sitting on a shelf in the garage. Is that garage heated?? Everyone says that the batteries should be kept indoors - including while charging. This may be why you're not getting all the life you expect.

What kind of control do you have for the hand grip heat? The higher the amp/hours the longer the battery will last. The higher the voltage, the more efficient. Just like with a (gas) cars estimated mpg, there are numerous variables that need to align or you will never get there. Sadly, it's not considered false advertising.

Thank you for your review. Your drive is pretty big and you're doing a fair bit of extra on the sides/walkway. I wish they'd just come out and say rate the run time based on square foot instead of "cars". I'd like to replace my 24" craftsman two stage with something lighter/easier to move around, but hate the thought of the batteries dying after a couple years and costing half the purchase price.

Gonna guess you have the 7.5A battery version. When doing the research on mine, I found that the 7.5's tended to run out quicker than you'd think. You actually got pretty far and moved a lot snow for having 7.5's. That looks about right, more or less. I actually got the 28" with 12A batteries, and my driveway is about 2/3 the size of yours, but I get a ton of drifting. For the 24, would definitely get the 10A version for starters. Maybe see if you can find some 10 or 12A batteries over the summer. You'll be much happier. Good luck, and nice review.

People that reviewed Greenworks do better:)

How many of us have that large a driveway? Get extra batteries. Still better than noisy gas and and you can keep in the garage without a gas smell.

The EGO Nexus Station 3000W with 2x 7.5 amp batteries is often in special for the same price as the battery alone. That Power Station is amazing and you will get 2 more batterie that will double what you currently do with the snowblower.

I agree with the EGO rep. Time is the correct measure of battery life, not square footage. A person could overlap a lot and that would affect run time. The bigger issue is batteries. You could have gotten the model with 10.0 batteries but you cheaped out and got the 7.5s. That is a sizable driveway and walk. I definitely would have spent a few bucks more and gotten the 10.0s. Not only they run longer, but they run more efficiently. Those 7.5s are being pushed to the max running a 2 stage snow blower and they will actually drain at a slightly faster rate because of that.

I had the same problem with my Stihl RMA 510 V Battery operated mower, says it'll mow up to 3000sq ft and I have maybe 1800 sq ft. Needless to say after already spending $900 on a mower I had to spend another $300 for a spare battery to mow the last 100 sq ft. Don't get me wrong though I love the mower, and it'll chop or at least attempt to chop up anything you run over, or it'll yeet it 30 to 35 yards away. I am now looking for a snow blower preferably a battery one since the maintenance on these battery yard tools is a lot less than that of gas counterparts gives me more free time, I know that even on turbo I should be able to do my tiny driveway 18x36, I'm more concerned about the end of the driveway where they plow up all the crap from the street... Anyways great video!!!

I'm struggling to understand the issue here, if the actual performances of the snowblower is fine, it just doesn't get the battery life based on stated 18 cars driveway I mean I'm not sure what to say. First off 18 cars of what size, I have a large drive way maybe the size of what you cleared off and I could fit 18 cars in that space they be tight they be bumper to bumper but doable, the point is it's such an arbitrary metric to qualify which I'm sure is why they are using it not to mention they are competing with the gas snowblowers that use same metrics but gas snowblower don't say how much gas they are going to use. If your disappointed because you can't clear the equivalent 18 car driveway on a single charge then would you go back to gas? I mean when I used my toro gas snowblower it take several fill ups to get though my driveway on 6 inch of snow. It comes down to trade off battery power tools have zero to no maintenance or prep but may have limitations on runtime and time wasted for charging, or buying additional costly batteries over dealing with gas/oil and maintenance.

I fucking hate def. Shit is constantly breaking. Ruins the value of the vehicle its attached to.

vous ne souffler pas la pleine largeur de la souffleuse

Paccar is going to drain your bank account.. 😢knowing couple people who own them .. nothing but trouble

I have been a Mack fan since I’m a kid I drove many Mack models B81-R-RD tin nose DM 600-800 U MR I never drove a newer Mack with def or computer only all mechanical Mack’s you cannot beat the old mechanical BullDog Mack’s fr heavy work

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LOL, if I have to use my gas Ariens snowblower for the size of your property, I would have to refill the gas tank 2+ times. lol

579 terrible engine break power Cummings

as a company driver i dont get to pick my truck. they pay me well, the money is probably the best i can find driving locally. i will make 110-120K this year hauling milk. the truck is a piece of crap, a worn out freightliner cascadia with a 13 manual. im not too impressed with the cascadia with a DD15, i might like it a little better if it had the DD16. total garbage heap. my last job i drove a 2022 T880 with a X15-565 cummins and 18 manual. i am hauling milk locally. i would love to try a mack for milk hauling but not many companies run them.

First of all, I don't even bother getting out my snowblower unless there is at least 16 inches of snow. (Buffalo NY area - Toyota Tundra 4x4). When it comes to how long that blower last, it was tested with the fake styrofoam snow and that is where they get their estimates from. I did buy their riding zero turn mower, will be here in a week. I have an Ariens tank snowblower for when we get real snow. 14 years old, always starts up. I would like a battery operated one because of the gas, oil and filter crap I need to go through, but that Ariens will never die. My brother got an Arians at the same time and just this year took it in for maintenance for the first time. I never have and my driveway is 140 feet long.

Not sure what this guy is talking about but I net an average of 3 grand in 4 days and I’m non CDL. That’s a pretty good living for me and my family. My insurance is super low too because I only pay a portion of it.

I actually wrote to Alex a couple of times about growing his company. His rate of growth was not wrong, but his capitalization was wrong. He actually took a loan that he thought was an investor. He then turned around and bough a Mega cab that was not going to serve his business. In the end the end the truck is a tool, not a show piece, so pick the truck based on being a tool. No bells and whistles, no giant screen in the dash, no leather, no sunroof, no frills at all. You are wrong about the trucks being able to carry out the missions, they are just usually on the wrong mission. Running at max capacity every trip is what takes it's toll on the trucks and that can affect semi trucks as well. Use 350/3500s for 3 car haulers, 450/4500 for 4 car haulers and 550/5500 for 5 and 6 car haulers. All these trucks could handle the weight without issue and required minimal repairs if you keep rigorous maintenance schedules. Alex leased trucks from Enterprise and that was not a good idea since those payments hover around $3K to 5K monthly. Buying a used F350 used with 100K and paying $900 per month with say 6 or 8K down is much smarter. You will spend far more for a 115K mile year on the Semi than the Dually. You can also go places semi trucks can't go and those loads pay big! Private to private and company to company loads pay over $1.30 per mile each vehicle. If you have 3 car running nonCDL your revenue is near $4.00 per mile and at an average of 60mph during a run that's a mile every min or $4.00 per min for 60 min every hour. The semi carries more vehicles but uses fuel at 3 to 4 times the rate and burns maintenance at an even high rate when factoring annual repair cost per mile. The low cost of entry and more brokers using Hotshot is what's driving the Hotshot industry. When rates are crappy a Hotshot can still run because he is not spending $1000 every fill up or $600 on an oil change with filters. Alex did get ahead of himself and was really not as much of a businessman as he was a great guy. Unfortunately that "Investor" wanted a payment every month, profit or not, basically stealing from revenues if necessary. He never admits that on camera, but go back and watch the video he made talking about the investor and the deal he made. Many "Investors" hide a loan wrapped in what looks like an "at risk investment" agreement by not advertising on the front end they expect payments downrange regardless of earnings. I looked at revenue to earnings ratios and they had a great big hole due to the steep payment that came with the 100K he got. The investor guys use something called "Implied returns" to muffle the word payment, but it's a payment. Anyway, no one is going to read this far down, so I will stop.

I hate the steering wheel as well

I know this is way off the topic, but are you still trucking? If you are, how is Mack holding it for you? Are there any major issues with the engine?

I'm a fan of both trucks all I know is the Peterbilt is most popular among drivers and reliability is great. Macks are known better for dump trucks and concrete trucks with the ability to change the engine and transmission u can damn near build your idiot truck just saying

Looking at sales, Peterbilt is 3rd and Mack is 7th. So, Peterbilt is better.

Mine broke.

Are you a non cdl trailer driver

That looks about right to me. Like you I would expect more based on their claim but manufacturers always over state things like runtime or mpg. I now have larger batteries that came with the zero turn and with those I can now finish snow blowing on a single set of batteries. If you bought it at Lowes I believe they have a very generous return policy.

I’m impressed with what it did

-- Yeah, with my tractor down, I went out and bought a Husq st224, 212cc. Five hundred feet worth of driveway right on Lake Michigan. That's not working for me.

Im not defending ego, but more of electric snow blowers. I have Ryobi 2 stage, which holds 4 batteries (6ah). So, my thoughts from looking at your vid. It looks like you are over lapping your lines going back and forth. I'm sure if you did the lines perfectly (which, i don't expect any homeowner to do) you would get the distance that goes with the advertise battery life.

You might have a problem with the batteries, I would get the batteries replaced.

I love my Ego blower. I run it on the lowest settings. I have never had to change the settings and it does just fine. I do my driveway which is only a 4 car driveway and then the neighbors driveway across the street which is much bigger (6 car) and my other neighbor which is only a small 3 car driveway. And usually when I’m done with all of that my batteries are dead. Now if it’s a really deep snow 10” or more, I can only do my driveway and the 6 car driveway.

What is the length and width of your driveway not including the RV area and do you have 7.5 or 10 AH batteries? I'm also curious what the temperature was when the snow fell. I bought the 2400 with 4 10AH batteries last November and used it for the first time 2 weeks ago. I'm in Southeast WI and my area got 20 inches over 5 days with the last 14 of it in 18 hours and I used the Ego 4 times during that period. I did use the Ego once before that storm when we got about 4 inches of snow similar to the moisture content of that in your video. My drive is 70 feet long and 3 cars wide at the top, it narrows to a 2 car width and then flares out at the street and I've used Google Earth to calculate that it's about 2000 square feet. I've owned several Ariens 2-stage blowers for decades and also have some experience with Toro. Looking at the snow in your video I wouldn't consider that "light and fluffy". I wasn't there but due to the fact the vertical cuts stayed clean and didn't fall apart and seeing the small chunks left on the pavement tells me the snow is what I'd consider to be of a "normal" or typical moisture content or about a 10:1 snow to rain ratio. With snow of that type and depth, on my driveway, my experience is when finished I'd have some juice left in one set of batteries, maybe 1 or 2 bars. If that snow was "light and fluffy" (20 or 30:1) I'd probably have 3 bars and if wet and heavy (5:1) I'd be into the second set of batteries to finish. I don't know the square footage of your pavement but my hunch is if your batteries are 10AH then your battery life is similar to mine. If those are 7.5's then I'd say you're getting really good run time. I've been looking at this Ego blower for 2 years but never bought due to the package only having 2 7.5AH batteries. When they offered the kit last Fall with 4 10AH batteries for $1899 I took the plunge and frankly am glad I did. I've demonstrated to myself that with the 4 batteries I can handle anything we'll get here in WI and not have battery anxiety. The Ego is so much more pleasurable to use than the Ariens and throws heavy wet snow much further. The Ego is lighter and tracks better than the Ariens and I'm finally done with oil changes and storing stabilized fuel that I may or may not use. Controlling auger speed independent of drive speed is a feature I didn't think would be significant but it is. The Ego can be pushed faster than the drive speed setting which is nice when I come to areas with a shallow snow depth. Changing drive and auger speed on the fly while keeping full torque is another plus. Sure, you can slow the engine speed on a gas blower but that takes you out of the max torque range and changing drive speed requires stopping and shifting. The Ego handles the "mountable curb" at my drive approach better than the Ariens too. The Ariens wanted to climb and leave a snow ramp so I'd have to fight with it and lift on a grips to keep it on the pavement. The Ego just follows the profile of the curb and stays planted. Different strokes but I don't fret over the battery life and instead consider all the benefits the Ego has over my 30 inch 9 HP Ariens which I don't miss at all. Frankly, it's my opinion that the Ego is a better designed machine for its purpose than my 2009 Ariens model and if it holds up over time then it's a great machine. You might want to check out this video at the 18:18 mark where the guy is using it to clear 8 inches of wet heavy snow off his ice 1000 square foot ice rink. ruclips.net/video/sIiVlOynCS8/видео.html

You bought it in October? Sounds like that wasn’t smart . They invented this thing called a forecast . They tell you when you are gonna get hit with weather . They carry those things everywhere. You should of waited my man

i have an ariens amp 2 stage electric. i bought 2 700wh ebike batteries to replace the old lead acids and its enough energy for my 75 foot driveway and some sidewalk for maybe 12 inches of snow. more than that and needs 2-3 trips and recharges. its not ideal but i already had the unit so. if i was in the market for a mower and blower i would think about the ego since you can reuse / repurpose the batteries and not just use them in the snow blower

I have a 100' driveway. I run on eco mode except where plow put snow at end of driveway. I cleaned driveway including in front of 3 car garage and walkeay and srill got 2 green bars on 1 battery and 1 green bar on other battery. The only thing i can thi k of is your batteries are still being maintained in a cool garage. Put your laptop in the garage next to your batteries all night and turn it on. I have an unheated garage so i maintain my batteries in a storage part of my basement.

December 22 I bought a one stage green works, last week during the blizzards here in Wisconsin both batteries died within five days, of course I wasn't impressed with the performance prior to that. Luckily I got it from Costco, as soon as I walked in they said: batteries. Full refund, and ordered a new two stage gas powered Ariens, that one should last until I can't find gas for it anymore. For the record I have so many battery powered devices including EV but all sucks in cold weather.

I've got about a 7 car driveway and then about 40 feet of walkway. There are some features of an electric snow blower that I would love, but I really need higher capacity batteries technology before I can make the switch. Sometimes we get 18" of snow. Once in a while we even get 24" of snow. But it's ok, if you're able to swap most of your gas use to electric, keeping a gas snow blower around for big storms isn't going to undo the hundreds of gallons you save each year switching to an electric car for example. What I might do years down the road is get a small electric single stage blower for the small storms and keep the tank around for the big storms.

Not impressed with how clean it got your driveway by the way. 20 minutes REALLY. WOW. Yard Sale item

With a driveway that size, you need a tractor lol

Temp is a big factor. might be you store them at 45°f and also the outside temp. If it is only like 5°f outside, that may cut capacity to only 50% vs 40°f. I have EGO leaf blower and when I use it in 15°f to blow snow off car and walkway it does not run near as long as in 50°f fall temp.

Time to call the folks at ego

Thanks for the follow up review. I guess the only way to find out how much more runtime the snow blower truly can finish for you is to run on full ECO mode again next time since the rating of any tool runtime is always rated at the lowest speed. Base on my personal experience, a set of 10.0Ah provides more that 25% runtime over a set of 7.5Ah batteries ant that is why I only uses 10.0Ah and 12.0Ah sets on the snow blowers and sold the 7.5Ah set while keeping the 5.0Ah batteries for light duty tools and invertors. Perhaps that maybe why the new SNT2410 only comes with 10.0Ah set option and no longer comes with 7.5Ah set due to the requirement of the brushless motor.

Take the video down and do another one after taking the advice given in the comments.

Like the guy previously said that’s an overheat issue you don’t need to run on turbo mode when you’re pushing that much snow and honestly I don’t think I’d want to keep going after two sets of batteries anyway, I would want to take a break and during the break the batteries will charge no issue

Thank you for taking the time making this video. As an owner of EGO single rubber/metal, 24" & 28" snow blowers for the past 5 years and learned many lessons from my mistakes, let's see if we take a closer look, break it down and see if this issue can be solved: 1. The batteries are not depleted yet when all 5 LED are blinking red. The batteries are actually overheated due to overload by the motor been pushing too hard which happens even to a gas snow blower. When the batteries are depleted, only 1 red LED will be blinking. Put the other two used 7.5Ah on the floor for one min. and they will turn green and most likely still show a few green LED lights to show there are charges let in them. 2. The setting on the auger speed is on "TURBO". Look at it as driving a car by pressing the fuel (gas/EV) paddle ALL THE WAY DOWN & ALL THE TIME in the snow what that would do to the engine. It is a learning curve transitioning from the gas snow blower which only runs on FULL speed in order to reach it's full torque power in the beginning due to the belt driven design that slows down when there is snow resistance. EGO's snow blower (not applicable to all battery snow blower like belt driven Toro & GreenWorks) is a direct brushless motor that provides FULL TORQUE even at ECO auger speed so set the auger to run on ECO speed will increase the runtime over 40% and will not overheat the batteries. Increase the auger speed only needed when dealing with heavy dense/almost frozen snow or ice temporary as required. 3. The setting on the drive speed is on "FULL" . Based on only 4"~5" of snow on the ground it is not necessary to go FULL speed which also increase stress on the auger running on "TURBO" to cause overheating on the batteries and over spill of snow as the intake housing can not process the snow fast enough. Look at the 2-Stage snow blower as a person eating and swallowing food. When intaking a large amount of food at TURBO speed, one would have to chew EXTREMELY FAST until the amount of foot overwhelming the capability of a person's ability to chew and swallow the intake of the food which may cause either chocking (chute clogging) or worse a heart attach (battery/motor overheating) while the food will be spilling out of the mouth like the snow blower leaving strips of snow over spill on the side of intake housing when clearing the driveway. It is cool and impressive to be able to throw the snow as far as possible; however, not necessary. I have been clearing 3 x 4 car driveways plus 1 mile x 2 paths sidewalk with the SNT2406 (2x10.0Ah) for few years before switching to the SNT2807 28" model and have not run out of of fuel once on a set of batteries unless it's wet snow over 8" for the entire rout so far so I know our machine does have much more potentials by operating it a little differently. Thanks again for taking the effort to make this video and hopefully these lessons I have learned will solved your issues.

Mack Anthem,all day long. I switched my fleet to the Anthem. Best move I ever made.

He said, "If you're planning to start now...", but when is NOW? When was this video created??? All of these videos should mention the current date so we know the context!!!