[Mr Ramsbotham]

You can blow all sorts of pink smoke all over electric cars and fill the public's ears with bullsh!t, but the inescapable facts remain that the batteries do not have the capacity to do anything except short commuter runs, and that they take a long time to recharge.

I have a cordless electric string trimmer with a NiCad battery. It's the most fantastic thing in the world. It starts at the touch of a button; it runs completely clean and virtually without noise. There's only one thing wrong with it, and that is, it doesn't work. Apart from that, I love it.

[tanknetter]

I was intrigued by the propane fueled weed whackers that were on the market a few years back. No mixing fuel for the 2-stroke motors, no carb issues from the ethanol content.

But they disappeared pretty quickly, looked like from reliability issues.

There’s a lot of good stuff coming out of green tech. But building it and buying it just for the sake of being “green” is a nonstarter.