LOL, my son’s employee walks around with earbuds listening to music and they don’t start until people are up and off to work.
Believe me, landscaping companies will switch to electric as soon as technology supports it. It is lighter, easier to use, easier to service and a great advertising plus.
Currently battery operated equipment including Stihl will last less than one hour on a battery. (I have that at home) The equipment also is not built commercial as yet. Landscape companies equipment use in one week is more than your use in over one year.
Non commercial equipment cannot stand up to that, commercial equipment, even with weekly servicing, rarely lasts through a season unless used by experienced people who do not abuse it.
You in no way win this one. Earbuds with music for guys strapped to leafblowers is blowing out their ears in record time. And they are illegals who are never going jome so we will pay for the disabilities that your son’s company has caused. Many, many jobs could be covered with corded electric—and then batteries or, God forbid!, rakes to finish off the rest. It is not viable now, supposedly, because so much cheap labor is imported. But shut that source off and you will see landscaping jobs and pay start to improve overnight. And landscapers shouldn’t be permitted to blast their sound pollution across neighborhoods anyway.