Gas mower vs battery mower
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- In this video, I will share my thoughts and differences between a gas mower and a battery mower. Since I own both, I can 100% tell you the difference but at the end of the day, you need to decide which is best for you and your situation. As usual, if you are new to my channel, please consider subscribing for future content.
00:00 Introduction
00:21 Only one advice and rating
01:41 Noise
03:42 Maintenance
05:39 Pollution
06:05 Serviceability
07:33 Reliability
09:18 Weight
10:38 Quality of cut
11:17 Final thoughts 
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This is the best video made in human history.
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This is the best video I’ve seen comparing the two
That is an immaculate lawn -- and an excellent review of the two options
Aside from the mowers your lawn is beautiful
I came here looking for a 1 to 1 comparison and thats what I got. Thanks Average Lawn Guy, this was just the advice I needed before making my new mower purchase!
I think I'll go for an electric this time. Never tried one but with my main concern surrounding reliability addressed I can proceed with confidence.
Thank you for your unbiased opinion.This was very thorough.Thank you very much
Dude. Your lawn is beautiful! It looks like field turf!
It is really a tough choice. I would say for a large yard go with the gas and for a small yard go with a small electric mower. Life is not easy, but life is good! Good video!
If you are crazy like me, get both.
Thanks for the review. Because of my type of lawn I should stick with a gas mower, I greatly appreciate the tip!
Thanks for mower comparison video 👍🏽
Great review. Awesome review. For the entry level owner, this is very illustrative.
Great comparison!!! I was thinking of Honda gas vs Ego lawnmower. Thank you so much!!!
Same here.. I'm still undecided
The added weight of a gas mower with a roller is actually a good thing, it helps to keep bumps out of the lawn. My gas mower also has a 'mulch attachment' which finely chops the grass and returns it to the lawn - this massively cuts down on amount of fertilizer used because every time you throw grass clippings away you are throwing expensive fertilizer away as well, the mulch fine cut re-cycles fertiliser back into the lawn.
this is a very helpful video. thanks
Excellent Review. I am so thankful for your insights! 🤙🏾👍🏾👍🏾🧒🏿🧒🏿
Thank you, you made decison making easy
Nice looking lawn, man 😊
Great video, it really helped.
Like many others have said, this is an excellent review!
Excellent job
good job!! thanks for the info......
Thanks for the review, I got a new brand Einhell X4 batteries and looks promising, my 220v lawn mover died last week so I moved to batteries, I hate extension cords. I was afraid about the quality cut but it did a pretty good job compared with my dead beast with 1.5HP engine.
Thanks for this honest review of Gas vs Battery lawn mowers. The big RUclipsrs have all been pumping battery lawnmowers to us, but never tell us battery lawnmowers just aren't there yet... because of their sponsorships with the companies. I'd like to hear about the suction test because the battery lawnmowers can't pick up branches.
Honda all the way!
Fairer review than I expected. I haven't seen a mower yet that cuts as nicely as the Honda. As far as oil changes, I do them every 2 years but I suspect most owners never do them. You touched on battery cost which many reviews don't. Will be curious if Honda eventually releases an electric push mower.
Have used a Kobalt electric for about 6 years. Love not having to maintain the motor and the easy push-button start. However just after the 3-year warranty expired, charging the batteries became difficult - they constantly need to be pulled out and put back into the charger. It is a huge hassle. Also power is not amazing - it struggles with tall grass and leaves a lot of stragglers. This season I am shopping for a new gas push mower, but will keep the kobalt as a backup.
Yep, and that's part of the issue. The US is nowhere near ready to go full electric without better battery/storage tech and currently there is none just the rehashing and marketing of the same tech using fancier not fully understood words.
@@wiredawg2005 at the end of the day we just want things to work and come at a “reasonable” cost. We are not there yet with batteries but might be at some point. Or they will force us to adopt by banning gasoline small engines.
I can’t speak for Kobalt, but my Ego mower has performed flawlessly. I would never go back to gas. Mowing in the quiet makes mowing rather enjoyable. The real deciding factor is the size of the lawn. If you have a huge lawn battery may not make sense. However, if you have a small lawn like mine battery is the only way to go. Cheers!
my biggest issue with electric mowers is the torque thru longer grass
My neighbor struggles with his battery one but also doesn't help he lets his grow almost 2ft lol
Our neighbour has a battery mower ( Bosch ) and his comment is, 'it is OK unless you let the grass get too long, or if 2 blades of grass don't need cutting at the same time'....
On year 5 with one of my batteries and it’s still going strong!
Thanks for the review. I have an older model of the EGO. Got it May 2018. Battery is still fine. Still does the whole lawn and ends at 1 bar (out of 4) just as when it was new. Yes, the battery will be expensive to replace but you still need to factor in the cost of fuel, oil etc over that time period. Yeah, it's not that much and it won't come near the cost of a new battery but the dollars spent are not zero. That sort of reduces the hit of a new battery.
Hopefully as time passes, battery prices will drop.
@@TheALG Maybe I better start saving now. hehehe
After using your power tool, allow the EGO battery some time to cool before placing it on the charger unless you really need it immediately again. This will allow time for the cells to cool, reducing the stress and should allow them to last longer. They have really fast chargers from what I've noticed which can put more thermal stress on the batteries over time...
@@Mike80528 Thanks, I already do this. But then I have to remember to put it on charge. Forgot to do that once so I put it on charge for a short time cause I really wanted to cut the grass before the rain came.
I like my kobalt battery mower that I got from lowes. I don't have to worry about gas, oil, or filters. I just need to sharpen the blade from time to time.
That noise comparison is exactly what I was lookin for. Here in moscow our service company mows grass at 9 am while i sleep. I dont have any idea how to influence those idiots. I cant sleep.
The EGO batteries last closer to 10 years... I have 5 EGO yard tools with 5 EGO batteries, the oldest is 7 years and still going strong, no degredation. The EGO warranty is 5 years, so you get minimum 5 years out of the battery and they could last up till 15 years. Definitely store the batteries indoors, and keep them around 50% charged when not in use.
Ego batteries have a 3 year warranty not 5, look it up. My Dad's Ego batteries lasted 3 years and died. You're lying about how old your batteries are, for what, so Ego can sell more crappy mowers?
@@smitastic7030if I could post receipts here I would. 7 years and still going strong. And they are 5 year warranties if you register the batteries within 90 days of purchase. Your dad probably didn't keep the batteries indoors, and kept them at 100% charge, both bad for battery longevity.
I have run 2 Honda mowers for the past 22 years. My extended family have Ego tools. The batteries seem to not work as well after 18 months and they die right when the warranty is over at 3 years. The batteries are just about as expensive as the mowers themselves. Battery stuff is great but the power, run-time and lifespan of gas is my choice at the moment.
Amazing lawn bro
Looks like astro turf
Actually on closer consideration it looks like you're using chemlawn chemicals. Gross. Do NOT let your dog near that stuff, it will kill him
Chemlawn chemicals?
Nice review. The only comment I have is regarding pollution. Yes the person mowing will get less but unless the battery is being charged with solar someone somewhere near a power plant is getting the pollution. And even if solar someone somewhere near a manufacturing of solar panels may be paying a pollution price.
Excelente video... estaba decidido a comprar una a gas pero viendo este video cambié de opinión... por cierto la que vi era una ego y en los comentarios veo que es una buena marca... Gracias
I’ve had a Ego for 3 years or so. I’d not consider going back to gas. I like the quiet of my Ego. I mow anytime
I choose and don’t have to worry about bothering anybody. Regarding the replacement battery cost. I paid $119 a year to have my gas powered mower serviced so that really pays for a new battery if needed. My lawn is Kentucky Bluegrass and I mow my lawn about 3 inches. Please understand my lawn is small,probably less than 1000 square feet. It is quite level as well. I’m able to mow the lawn in less than 15 minutes. It is an important point to buy accessories that are battery compatible. Last thought. My Ego is very easy to store because of the light weight and the fact there’s no fluid to leak out when stored upright. Cheers!
You pay $119 for an oil and filter change? It takes five minutes
@@je2338 you are totally incorrect. Cheers!
@@sherlock1895 how so? I service my own mower. Tip the mower over, drain the oil, put new oil in, change fuel and air filter. No need to drive it somewhere for such a simple job that costs $20
@@je2338 I’m so happy for you. Have a great day. Cheers!
@@sherlock1895 no genuinely, I'm interested to know.
I primarily use a 21" mower to shred leaves in the fall and then put them on my garden/ ground cover beds/ leave some on the lawn etc. I have a massive amount of leaves (I mean seriously a lot!) so it's a pretty big deal for it to be powerful enough and efficient at this.
Have you ever compared your Honda 217 and the Ego in shredding leaves or do you have any guesses of how they might compare?
I have a Honda commercial (HRC216) now. It's just shy of 30 years old though including 7 years of commercial usage so some work on it or a new mower is in the near future
To me both mowers seem to do the same at shredding leaves. The gas seems a bit better at it than the battery.
Great comparison. I went with electric because I just push a button to start, no pulling
Did you get ego, ryobi, or greenworks?
@@TheALG Hart(I also have their backpack sprayer) which is Ryobi sold by Walmart. My trimmer/ blower and pole saw are greenworks
Great review and comparison and a beautiful lawn. I have this to add regarding EGO: My experience could be a 1-off, but I'm frustrated as hell dealing with EGO: (Location GA:/grass type: Bermuda approx. 66oo sq. ft.) I bought the EGO 2130SP in Feb 2021, while I want to give it 5-Star rating (works great when it works). But EGO is getting 1-star from me. I've had a random problem of it not starting (in driveway) or stopping/stalling during a cut (and I'm not cutting overgrown grass here). It's not a battery issue, the battery works fine in the String Trimmer. Also, I can't simulate it at will. In Mar of 2022 I turn it over to an authorized dealer. They had it for 3 weeks and told me they could not find anything wrong with it (Note: it was returned to me very filthy, both mower and charger). Well, the same problem happened again at the end of the cutting season (yes, it ran all summer long in 90-degree heat). At the beginning of this season (2023) it did it again after 2 complete cuts. In APR/May it happened again these past 2 times I called EGO. I let them know I reported this same problem in the past, went through their scripted troubleshooting guide and it worked fine while they were on the phone. Hung up with them and guess what? It stalled again and would not start about 20 minutes into my cut, I finished with my gas mower. The following week it would NOT start again. Before calling EGO, I went through all the steps I from the previous week and it would NOT start on the driveway. I called EGO and of course, it works. This time I was able to finish my lawn (Bermuda, approx. 6600 sq. ft. Here 's my problem, I'm not calling EGO for no reason. It's under full warranty and there is something wrong with my mower. And I can guarantee it's not the typical wiring or relays found on youtube vids. As I said, this happen to me in 2022 and I waited to double triple check to be sure it was not some silly operator error. 1) Charge battery (all green lights) 2) slide into slot (be sure it clicks in place) 3) fully push start button and pull bail switch. The light on the handle shows solid "orange light" while battery lights are fully green. The mower nor the battery is hot and I'm not even in the grass at times when it shuts down or simply does not start. There is no way it's a load issue and be acceptable as working under normal conditions. I follow the 1/3 rule of cutting. I've replayed this info to the EGO reps several times. This should be more than enough info to turn it in. Yet, I can't get them to authorize a real tech to figure out the issue or simply replace it. But then what...I'm out of a mower I paid $600+ for another three weeks possibly. It's a good thing I held on to my 15 yr. old gas mower. WTF!!!
That has been my extended family's experience as well. Ego is lacking for support. At the 18 month mark the batteries perform at 50%-75 percent of their original run time. Ego claims that is normal and expected. The reason my family sticks with Ego, is they are so invested in all the different tools they own. They pay $250-$450 for a battery depending on the size. Also from an ergonomics perspective, the Ego Trimmers fatigue my hands due to the placement of the trigger. I still own all gas stuff for my yard and mow every 3-5 days.
alot of shops here locally suck. there are backed up with gas mowers and can tie up your mower for weeks as well. no such thing as rapid turn around here.
If only I had this self propelled tip 3 years ago before spending money on mower 😆 . Saving 100 dollars is not worth it
Unless I had other power tools using same batteries I would never ever consider a battery mower, leaving batteries in the shed for 6 months of the year is not a good ides. I have a self-propelled petrol mower that I have been using for 15 years now, it is very quiet, and apart from a yearly oil change and buying a new carburetor every 5 years ( it costs £20 and takes 20 minutes to fit, because I found that trying to clean old carb is not successful ). My neighbour has a Bosch battery mower and his comment was 'it is OK unless two blades of grass gang up on you at same time'... Why does everyone think that battery powered equipment and cars are pollution free, because massive pollution is caused by mining for the chemicals to make battery, and vast majority of the electricity used to charge the batteries is made using natural gas or even coal.... but some electric things are powered by the smugness of their owner. Having seen what happens to batteries on cell phones and laptops I will stick to gas ( petrol )
Thx for this comparison. You helped me decide. God bless.
what kind of grass is that? it looks so perfect
Common bermuda
Oil change on mower usually take 1 min. No I am not kidding and you can do it once a year or 2,
Gas is more powerful for same amount of purchasing cost. Think overall battery is better, you dont have to mess with gasoline and oils. You dont get so tired from vibration, noise and exhaust. In general service intervals for gas are same costly as new battery, Only thing keeping in mind that when you are purchasing battery powered mower that its need to be powerful enough. I have been using corded lawn mover for 10+ years,(small area) newer had to service it. no oil, no gas, no flammability, no air filter, no sparkplug, no leaks, no starter issues. God thank you for electric mower!
Gas mower: requires oil, needs gasoline (highly flammable) which needs to be stored. Produces fumes, needs physical effort to start.
Cordless Electric: needs a battery charger.
I'm sold on cordless electric. The cost of a new battery is offset by the fact that the cost of gasoline is considerably higher than the cost of the electricity required to charge the battery.
Yep. I was without my electric mower all summer. Had to pay someone to cut my yard ALL summer! Not cool.
Sorry to hear that, I know that sucks.
My 5 amp hour battery still ran for 45 minutes in my mower after 6 years. Your estimate on the battery is just a guess not based on any research that you presented
nice grass,,
How do you make your lawn look so perfect?
Mow often. When you mow, you want to cut just alittle off at a time.
Thanks @@TheALG
I have a ryobi riding electric and an ego push electric. I’m not a fan of self propelled unless you don’t like or can’t get some exercise at the same time. Electric are so light you don’t need self propelled at all.
True for flat surfaces. But add inclines, one learns to appreciate self-propelled even the light electric ones.
I hate my roommates gas mower, it’s such a pain to use. Pulling that rip cord is frustrating, the exhaust fumes are a pet peeve, the ear fatigue from the small engine noise is pathetic, and fiddling with the carburetor to get it to run after the winter is a Royal pain. It’s going to be electric or nothing for my first mower. Biting the bullet on that Milwaukee Fuel mower.
The gas mower is going to have constant full power and suction which in the end means it will cut and bag better.
Heyy how long does battery life last with electric mower
Depends on how high grass you are cutting. I generally can cut 0.25 acres on 1 battery and still have enough to trim and barely blow.
Damn dude - you're making your neighbor look pretty bad there (7:03) . You ever feel guilty about that? haha
I really enjoyed the video. I would say for the pollution category, the electric lawn movers battery is made of heavy metals that are hard to recycle and reused at the end of their lifespan.
A few things:
Noise - most councils/counties don't discriminate their noise free periods between petrol or electric. It doesn't matter to them. Electric mowers still nake noise snd if my neighbour was mowing at 11pm, id be pissed off.
Reliability - an electric motor definitely wouldn't last as long as a petrol mower.
Fuel storage - I've never bothered with this and never had an issue. Maybe thats because i live in Australia and our winter isnt as severe.
You forgot the most important - price. You can get a 'best quality' petrol mower for the cost of a 'good quality (working on a good, better, best system) electric mower. You have to factor in battery cost at inflation prices. A battery in 2024 will be 20-30% more in 2027 and with a 'best brand' electric mower, a high amp hour battery will be the same as a new better quality petrol mower.
Slavery - lithium contains elements that are mined using slavery in Africa. Motors such as Briggs and Stratton do not, and the fuel industry is very well paid when pumped at the source.
Fires - a lithium ion fire can cause utter destruction of your home and can be almost impossible to put out in its first five minutes. This is a real issue that shouldn't be overlooked. If a patrol motor caught on fire, it's typically going to be outside while in use, not randomly when on charge in your home where it can, and has killed people.
Land fill - almost all parts on a petrol is steel and can be recycled. Electric mowers contained a lot of plastic and the batteries contains pollutabt elements that cannot be recycled at this point in time.
Emissions - depends how the election is made. If made uaing coal, then it also produces emissions.
Thanks for your breakdown ... very helpful
Your lawn is very good looking it looks as it is not real.
It's crap now because I had to re-sod the entire property.
Gas is the best way to go look at all the money you spend on batteries the gas mower uses less fuel than you think.
An electric motor is emission free?
Hmm. Magical energy.
I bought an expensive battery-powered weed eater recently. It was very weak compared to a cheap gas powered weed eater.
Gas is better. No charge times or expensive batteries. I like the increased power, pulling the ripcord, and smell of gas.
Electric lawn equipment just takes the manly fun out of it.
amen brother!!!
To each his own, but I think I am with you
Good review, but you were wrong about something.
Electric is not emission free. The electricity used to charge it comes from power plants, and most power plants are coal fired. Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel.
When all is said and done the electric cuts emissions by approximately 10%.
Coal plants are going away and dropping every year...Think less than 15% as of 2023
Great review. But electric is not zero emissions.
Yes they are, zero emissions, its always refers to 'at point of use' , just like when emissions for gas engines are calculated.
Manufacturing and disposal emissions are heavy for electric but are also heavy for gas particularly when manufacturing of the fuel is added to the equation.
Batteries can catch fire if you drop them. I'm glad that i now have petrol leaf blower and weedeater. I had to throw away a good mower and leafblower because of the batteries. They do not sell them anymore. The newer ones do not fit anymore in the old equipment. That problem is also solved with buying petrol stuff!
Don't use 87 with ethanol, it will gum up your carburetor over winter. I use 91-93 premium and it never gums it up over winter.
I also just swapped to battery mower for convenience. It's ok, does the job just barely the 40v model. I should have went with a 60 or 80v which should be same as gas power.
Interesting, doesn't the 91-93 premium have ethanol in it also?
@@TheALG yes it does but maybe less I'm not sure. I was just given this tip from my buddy like 5 years ago and haven't had my mower gum up since.
Before I used 87 I would have to take apart my mower every spring to clean out the clogged carburetor, but not anymore.
But I put stablizer in my mower before putting it away for winter and after 10 plus years have never had a carburetor related problem and starts the next spring with a couple of pulls. Just be sure to run the mower for a couple of minutes after you add stabilizer to the gas before storing the mower.
Thanks for the review. Your review is for today, not two years from now, battery will become so much cheaper even in the next year. A battery that costs a $100 dollars now will be half that in two years. California will not even have gas equipment next year. That is 39.24 million people buying electric so the price will drop because of competition. After using gas for all my life, electric is so much better, how many times have you tugged on the cord for so long to try and start a mower or chain saw till you arm hurt. I am not from snow country I imagine snow blowers suck also. I have my lawnmower, leaf blower, weed trimmer, hedge trimmer, radial saw, a regular screwdriver and an impact gun from the same company and can all use the same batteries and I recharge between use. My dad started using Makita 7.2V drills in 1979 using drywall screws. The other guys hammering in nails thought he was crazy, my dad knew the future.
I'm willing to bet it will not be cheaper. Cheaper will equate to you get what you pay for. The US nor the world is nowhere near ready to go fully electric. Until battery technology improves & what I mean by improve: there is a completely new development in storage and readily available material(s) man-made or natural. The current tech is simply rehashed from decades old science. The competition you talk of will mean higher prices as this will be a supply and demand issue not an overabundance of material available combined with cheap labor. Of course, unless the plan is to exploit third world countries for its rare earth materials, cause the US has none. Or at the very least mining very, very little.
California is taking itself out of the real world with its ban on gas, considering that after dark most of the electricity on the California grid is supplied from Natural gas fired power stations, such hypocrisy is shameful.
It will not get cheaper...
3 decisions actually…battery, electric, migrant.
But is false of electric being "zero emissions" you don't see it but it's there. Electricity is made by burning coal. And Electric vehicles you have huge diesel machinery equipment mining huge craters in the Earth to mine for the lithium needed for the batteries.
Oh my goodness , really? Wow good thing you brought this to our attantion😂. What about wind turbines , photovoltaic , hydro, nuclear . Get a grip . Zero emissions is rising not over night . Battery equipment is great over all , it’s getting better and better.
@@TheOriginalBumper Battery powered is a joke. Good luck charging your Tesla when it's -20 outside. And our power grid would absolutely collapse. If we all had electric cars.
Lmao! Yeah, to hell with electric and gas. Get a goat. Then you only have to worry about stepping in their emissions.
@@jamesstine7849 Electric is actually worse for the environment.
@@alexhunter6141 You are wrong, but "not too wrong", it is true that there is a high level of emissions manufacturing the batteries, but at the end, the electric vehicles/machinery have 30% less contamination than a standard vehicle (gas/petrol), but, as long as you use that electric vehicle/machine for at least 2-3 years.
We're all forgetting one thing and that is electric lawn mowers have a lower chance of catching fire then gas mowers 😊
Actually the reverse is true. Lithium batteries and their chargers are the leading cause of house fires. Electric lawn mowers are far more likely to probably cause death due to that then anything else.
Look at the combusting Tesla's and electrical fires related to electric cars, cellephones, tablets, etc. The list goes on and on. A gas lawn mower on the other hand has a spark guard(google it if you are curious) and that's been a non-issue for decades.
@@Vultain I can't really blame people for not understanding this at all because I do not think that there has been any real effort made into educating the public about the dangers of lithium ion batteries, and that is what I see as begging for disaster.
So far as I am aware the fire danger is greatest from a push lawn mower when re-fueling it. If the engine is hot and you spill gas into the wrong area it can ignite, but if you'll give the mower even 5 minutes to cool it is nearly impossible to have this happen.
I really think that a lot of mower fires, rare as they are, happen because people try to re-fuel the mower while it is running. That is about as stupid as it gets.
@@nosilverharbinger I agree about education to the public. The information is out there but someone has to be willing to look it up.
As far as refueling? Absolutely 100% correct. Any manual or safety guide recommends 10 minutes to be on the safe side. And 10 minutes after if you spill the gas at all. Safety first but I get not a whole lot of people read about it.
A lot of it is ignorance but it is ignorance by choice.
@@Vultain Manuals vary on that. On the mower I very recently bought it just says "allow the engine to cool" before refueling with no stated time frame. Five minutes is generally a safe amount, but if you want to wait longer then by all means do it. It isn't going to hurt anything.
I'm not going to recommend products and modifications, but I have done things that have kept me from spilling gas on a mower for years. When it used to happen I just wiped it off and/or waited for it to evaporate.
We're pretty much on the same page about the batteries issue. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the lack of effort to educate the public on the potential hazards is more about how the industries and giant companies that sell tons of lithium ion powered products do not want anything out there in the mainstream that will discourage people from buying them. They'd rather you think they are perfectly safe, totally green, and just wonderful because they know that people don't read manuals.
Until a safer battery technology emerges. At that point they will want to tell you all about how dangerous they can be so they can sell the upgrade.
@@VultainCooking is the leading cause of home fires in the United States, starting almost half of all fires. Heating is the second highest cause, followed by electrical systems/lighting equipment and intentional fires. Smoking is the fifth highest cause, but is the leading cause of civilian home fire deaths.
Tesla's are actually 10 times less likely to catch on fire than gas cars, you can google these facts if you don't believe me.
There is something to be said about corded electric mowers....stay away!