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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Are electric mowers battery powered or do you need to plug in? How efficient is it for a big lawn?

From the article:

The average electric lawn mower lasts for just an hour before needing to be recharged.That may be plenty of time for the typical homeowner tending to their own lawn but not for a company that mows constantly throughout an eight-hour workday. One can purchase extra batteries and swap them in throughout the day, but landscapers say thats a costly requirement.

A contractor would have to purchase a battery charger and nine batteries to get through peak leaf season, Woolcott said. Lawn mower batteries typically cost between $100 and $300 and last three to five years.

So for each mower they have to replace, they also have to spend about $1800, per mower, on batteries to keep them running the full work day, unless they hook a charger up to their car and end up running the engine anyway to charge them between lawns.