, which has offered subsidies to help residents of Washington and the lawn companies that operate there move to electric garden equipment, said there are challenges with shifting but they don't have to be dealbreakers.
Companies can invest in charging infrastructure that goes in the back of a van or a work truck, Roach said. And they can acquire extra batteries that can be swapped out when other ones run low. For Whalley and her crew tending to Tudor Place, the change meant shuffling equipment around to find enough spots to plug in all the battery chargers."We popped a couple of fuses figuring that all out," she said.
She's since upgraded the 1960s-era wiring where the equipment is kept and no longer has to send devices away for preventative maintenance, which can take weeks, or store various combinations of fuel, the way she did with gas models. Whalley was already a proponent of ditching the gas-powered tools because she'd done so at her own home."I realized how much nicer the experience is for not only the person operating the equipment, but anybody else who has been subjected to the sound and the fumes of the gas."Subscribe to push notifications