The Surprising Leader in the Electric Transition — Your Lawn Mower

<p>While everyone has been focused on EVs coming into the automobile market, a preview of things to come can be seen in the buying trends for outdoor equipment &mdash; you know, things like lawn mowers, leaf blowers, chipper-shredders, snowblowers.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/30/home-depot-lowes-bank-on-electric-power-tools-and-landscaping-equipment.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Battery-powered electric machinery now accounts for nearly 66% of sales in the outdoor power tools market</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.traqline.com/newsroom/blog/ope-industry-trends-show-battery-powered-market-shifts/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Traqline, a market statistics firm, says the market share is 64%</a>. Either way, it is almost two-thirds, the number is growing, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/30/home-depot-lowes-bank-on-electric-power-tools-and-landscaping-equipment.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">CNBC reports</a>&nbsp;that Lowe&rsquo;s and Home Depot are planning on sales in that category to help drive the overall sales growth in their stores. Home Depot is targeting that 85% of power equipment sales will be electric by 2029. Besides the carbon improvements, just think of what happens to the noise those damned leaf blowers make!</p> <h1>Laws help but better products win</h1> <p>There are two things to understand. First, people are making the shift. Part of the impetus came from a new law in California that bans the sale of gas-powered outdoor equipment. But California doesn&rsquo;t account for everyone, and for a company to project that electric battery-powered tools will dominate this category nationwide is people putting their money where their mouth is. But the real reason it is happening is this: The tools are better. They are cleaner, there&rsquo;s no oil and gas to deal with, and they are quieter and more pleasant to use. That&rsquo;s why they own two-thirds of the market.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/the-new-climate/the-surprising-leader-in-the-electric-transition-your-lawn-mower-3580ef63f90d"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>