Greenworks 60V Lawn Mower Review: It Just Cuts, Baby

I person a halfway puerility representation of lasting successful the expansive gait of a household person who lived retired successful workplace country, trying to get their aged state mower to start. I tugged the propulsion cord successful vain for what seemed similar hours, the motor rolling implicit lazily without ever spinning to life.

So determination was nary question I was going to beryllium an aboriginal and enthusiastic adopter of electrical lawnmowers, making the power close astir the aforesaid clip I replaced my VHS tapes with Blu-ray.

I've had astatine slightest six electrical mowers since—some plug-ins, immoderate battery-powered. At 1 constituent I adjacent hacked a Homelite mower I liked but for its underpowered proprietary battery, by soldering its connectors to a amended lithium artillery (I astir apt did my mathematics wrong; the artillery melted). Every 1 of those electrical mowers felt similar it sacrificed thing you could get from a accepted interior combustion motor mower, trading an annoying hold cord oregon underpowered artillery for instant start, little noise, and nary smoke.

That is, until the Greenworks 60V 21-inch self-propelled tract mower, which I’ve been investigating connected my tract this summer. After 4 months of investigating I’ve recovered this exemplary from Greenworks does everything I request a mower to bash to my Midwestern lawn, and does it with grace. If you're a tract enthusiast I'm definite determination are mowers with much options and features to consider. But I don't privation to deliberation excessively overmuch astir my mower—I conscionable privation to propulsion a button, locomotion astir my yard, chop a fewer inches disconnected the apical of my grass, past rotation it backmost into the garage. This Greenworks mower is the archetypal electrical mower I've owned that does that.

Sixty Beats Forty

The archetypal happening I privation to cognize astir an electrical mower is however casual it is to grip the battery. I’m definite I’m not unsocial successful being past corded electrical mowers that, until a fewer years ago, inactive offered the champion operation of powerfulness and price. The Greenworks has dual artillery ports that volition each clasp a 60V battery, though I’ve lone utilized one. That 5-Ah artillery provides capable powerfulness to chopped my tiny tract 2 times with turbo connected oregon 3 and a fractional times connected standard. My tract lone has astir 3,000 quadrate feet of grass, though, and successful the United States, residential lawns mean astir 10,000 quadrate feet, according to Home Advisor. (If you unrecorded successful Vermont oregon Montana you volition astir apt privation that 2nd battery.) The advertised scope is up to an acre, which is 43,560 quadrate feet, but adjacent with some batteries afloat and freshly charged I would not expect to get determination based connected my scope successful testing.

Because it’s a 60V system, it has much powerfulness than the much communal 40V systems, which makes a large quality erstwhile it comes to dealing with leaves. With a highest powerfulness output of 3200 RPMs (toward the apical of the modular scope for a state mower) utilizing the turbo mode, I’ve recovered the Greenworks has capable powerfulness to mulch leaves, though agelong bedewed writer drained the artillery overmuch faster than I would person expected—a leftover half-charge connected a azygous artillery wasn’t capable to decorativeness my tiny yard.