In the early 80s my dad bought an electric lawnmower with a cord. Do you know how hard it is to mow a big lawn with an electric mower with and 18 inch cut width and an 30 foot extension cord?
I finally broke it on purpose so my dad would buy a decent gas mower.
We had a cord mower in the 80s too, I kept running over the cord and got yelled at a lot.
I've been using electric mowers with cords since I was a kid in the early 70's . We had a mower with a handle that flipped over from rear to front. The cord was on the side of the power outlet & was always on the strip of lawn you just finished cutting. Very easy. Didn't have to store the gas in the garage or go to the gas station to fill up gas cans & lug them around.
When I first started mowing grass we had a gas powered, but since I used the electric, I've never bought another gas mower.
Having said that, I would not consider buying an electric vehicle.
Get a 100-foot cord.
Plan the mowing so the cord follows.
Been there. Done that.
No gas to mix. No failure to start.
Did run over the cord once.
And they are much worse now
Not sure if it's a government regulation somewhere or fear of lawsuits, but one annoying thing about any corded equipment made in the last 10-20 years is the cords are now designed to easily pop out of the socket on the equipment.
So the slightest jerk (and I mean the slightest) or quick change in direction and the cord will pop out and the blower/mower/power rake/etc will stop running and you will lose your momentum and have to stop and push it back in.
Trying to mow and/or blow when you have to stop every 20-30 seconds just as you were start to get a good pace just to re-attached the cord really, really, really will drive you ^!@&^ mad.
Who made this rule or who designed them this way deserves to be shot.
How come you didn’t just buy a cordless extension cord?
‘In the early 80s my dad bought an electric lawnmower with a cord.’
when I was kid my father made me use a walk behind reel mower on a large lawn, all the while trumpeting how wonderful it was we could never run out of gas...