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What can you pull with the riding electric, and for how long?

With my gas powered rider, I mowed my yard, dethatched, then bagged the thatch all on about 1/2 gallon of gas.

I have also used my gas rider to pull a car carrier trailer with a large swing set loaded onto it, my boat trailer with the boat on it, etc...

I really have doubts about an electric rider in this regard.

You are correct that an electric mower won’t do for all of that. I pull a small wagon with mine loaded with yard tools about 500 ft to my mothers house, disconnect the wagon, mow her grass and do weed trimming and such, reconnect the wagon and pull it back to my house, disconnect it and mow over half of my yard before it needs recharging. I do no mulching or bagging. But I recharge it more than enough in the hour plus it takes to weed trim and blow out at my yard. And it comes with four of the portable 56V batteries that Ego has for their yard tools (with slots for 6 batteries if I want to add 2 to extend range). I have no need for those extra 2 batteries.

More on it being best for some use cases but horrible for others. It doesn’t add to my power bill because of my home solar. When I’m done cutting grass for the weekend I plug it into a 120V outlet that’s powered intermittently, only when I have good solar. In the week’s time between grass cuts I’ll have at least one day of good solar—so it’s always charged up with free power. Which will almost always be the same for the recharge while trimming— if the weather is clear enough to do yard work it’ll almost always be a good enough solar day for free power. Though I have a constant powered 120V by the shed just in case I’m doing yard work on bad weather.