One clarification. While the charger is included, it was incorrectly called an onboard charger. Onboard means the charger is built right in to the mower; not sitting on a shelf or the floor. An onboard charger would mean that one would literally run any extension cord to the mower and plug the mower into the extension cord if it was an onboard charger.

Glad we could help! Thanks for watching!

smh electric powerwasher... what could go wrong

@@samuelyoung2671 Sun Joe has a cordless unit. There are lots of electric power washers.

A power washer uses a lot of power. An electric unit uses 1800 watts continuously, and they're not even that powerful. One of their 10Ah batteries would be depleted in less than 15 minutes. If they include multiple batteries, it would cost way over $1000. I don't think many would be willing to pay that much for something so weak. Things don't get interesting until 8 horsepower or so, and that's 6000 watts. 40Ah would be gone in less than 15 minutes. It's just doesn't seem practical. The reason a lawn mower can get away with it is because it doesn't constantly need full power. Most of the time, the blades are just loafing along with the motor barely using any power.

I agree, I'd love to have a battery powered pressure washer for those quick cleanup jobs around the house.

@@JustEnjoyingLife73 I believe it exists lol, just think its a crap idea

Well they capitalized on the whole green movement. I still don't find it worth the price. Especially for something like this. You're talking about a battery that is about 200 or 250 US dollars. If it goes bad, it's done. I'm sure I don't even waste 100 in a year on my lawn mower. Then consider how many of those batteries you'd need to do your lawn. They're cool, but holy shit they are money pits.

@@Yoursoul101 Wish it were 200-250, they're 450 each. You're dropping an extra grand to get that additional acre.

It's definitely something to think about for sure. But at the same time, you're cutting out belts, idler arms freezing up and pulleys wearing out, oil changes I'm not sure how the transmissions are setup on these. I picked up an ego push mower almost 4 years ago brushed motor with the 7.5ah battery and have abused the crap out of this thing even hose it off since I've had it. Haven't had a single issue with it and the battery still has the same cut time I did when I got it. Since then I've picked up two brushless units 😂. They also have a 5 year warranty. Hopefully the ztr is as dependable

@@Yoursoul101 The batteries are around $650 plus tax in Canada.

@@Yoursoul101 4/11/22, Well....don't buy the "green hype;" E-yard machines suck, why would you do this? I bought a new Gravely ztx-42" a year ago, great machine, better than any *batt/ego!* That's 4sure.

This mower is $5k and it only comes with 4 battery and it doesn't even cut 1 Acre if your land is a bit of a slope. You will have to purchase 2 more battery which cost $500+ each. So for a $6k Mower that doesn't cut 2+ acre and doesn't have a 54" Blade cut. I don't think I'll be investing in it. I heard there is a lot of problem with the E. Motor that drives the wheels too.

@@Moe7133 can you link a source to the motor issues

2 of my 2.5 ah batteries died this Spring. Only got 3 years out of them.

@@Moe7133 The 4 batteries are each 10AH. Many reports say it can easily do 1 acre.

@@Moe7133 the batteries are not 500 each

I have battery powered hedger weedeater and chainsaw.... don't think i will be spending the money for a ZT that i can get cheaper for same features from toro.... remember it's a 42" deck.... you can get a toro zt with 42" deck for half the price.... and it will cut just as much on one tank of gas as that ego will on one charge of all six battieries.... the only reason to consider this mower is if you want to do away with all gas use....Now if they make one comparable to a gas zt of the same size then yes i'd consider it... but as it stands now....engines are easy to keep running and you don't have much maintance on them.

@@Shocke89 The Ryobi I have has a 42" deck and was the same price as an ICE ZT. The advantages for me having a battery ZT is it's so easy to use. I'm more than capable of looking after an ICE ZT but why do I want that extra hassle. On mine I don't even have to worry about belts, or getting petrol. Just unplug and cut, wash and plug in. The price of these will come down, been an early adopter always costs a bit. But just been so quite compared to an ICE ZT makes it seem a bargain.

@@Shocke89 Man, I despise gas powered zero turns but I don't think the battery powered ZT's are good enough to switch just yet. In the next few years I can see them pulling ahead of ICE ZT's. I have a Toro Timecutter 5000 and as far as gas powered ZT's go it's awesome! Don't buy a John Deere!

Wise choice. I’m in the process of changing all my gas tools to battery, it’s just so, SO much easier! No fiddling, no fumes, just pop in a battery and go. You won’t regret it. I will say, choose your ecosystem carefully, you don’t want a dozen different batteries for a dozen different tools. Also welcome to homeownership, you’ll never be bored again. 😅

Feel comfortable to go all in on EGO. Going on 4 years and I have all except the new zero turn and chain saw. Great stuff

Pair it with solar and electric vehicle in the future 🤌

4/11/22, Don't buy the hype; battery yard machines suck. I have a Gravely ztx 42" w/22hp Kohler (725cc). As a homeowner you should provide ample space for your equipment.

@@prestonweitersjr.9460 As someone who is looking at a zero turn, why are you so against this ego? Have you used it to know it's bad, because the owners I know, rate very highly of this mower.

Thanks for watching!

I'm waiting to pick one up for my lawn care business as well. How is it holding up?

I’m using regular for now until I get there zero turn

You can barely get an ICE ZT for $3000.

Zero turns are great on hills...

@@richfarfugnuven6308 of you have weights on the front . If not they’re not that good .. they like to tip .

@@Secretfiles999 my old Grasshopper was awesome, but it was heavy...

My scag ztr holds a hill better than and lawn tractor Ive ever been on....

@@zachariahz9832 do they make a front snowblower for that unit?

Toro is working on something like that. They are testing with a battery bank on the trailer contractors can plugin the mowers during transport and plugin the trailer at night when they get home.

With California banning small engines in the near future, I see them selling like hotcakes. They may need to make a portable power station to charge batteries while on jobsites, or lower the cost of their batteries. Those batteries shown in the video are $450 a unit. Granted, they are great batteries with a 5 year warranty, but that up front cost will be large. It should pay for itself however, from the savings on gas and maintenance alone. Should be interesting to see how things play out here.

@@CodeMerk California needs to break off into the ocean

@@50_cal56 hahaha. This made me laugh, because I keep saying the same thing.

Green Machine makes a great unit. At this point in the game I can buy 3 brand new standers compared to 1. If they want consumers/professionals to convert to electric they sure are not making it easy!

Mean green make a solid commercial unit. The ego stuff is neat, but the hardware is fairly poorly designed homeowner stuff. But, most of the competition in the class is also junk. The battery technology is quite impressive though, would be nice to see someone make better stuff that runs on the ego batteries. Like a magnesium lawnboy style deck with ego power. Or a decent top hand arborist chainsaw that used ego batteries.

At least with ego you can use the batteries from the mower to power your other ego tools and vice-versa, with a Ryobi the batteries are specifically made for the mower and are not interchangeable. But that's my opinion, I have some other ego tools so this would be perfect for me as I can use it to mow and then use the bigger batteries to weed eat along my fence line.

I assume the blades still make a lot of noise. That's the only thing I could think of.

Yes you are right. I have this mower and that is so.

I wish the plug was that too. Maybe there’s a converter. I bought this mower and I have a PHEV car but I don’t know what this plug is called yet.

I totally agree. The battery logic would have to be in the mower but that's easy enough.....

@@Protoolreviews Hiya Protool. I wanted to be clear that I love the videos and the details you go into. Very helpful and well done. Just wanting to clear up the terminology for the charger shown in the video. The charger shown in your video is not an "onboard charger" by definition. "Onboard charger" means the charger itself is located on the mower. The location of the batteries at the time of charging doesn't impact the name or the location of the charger itself. The charger in your video is not located on the mower and so not an "onboard charger"; it's an offboard charger. EGO does not use the term "onboard charger" for the shown charger and I can't find that they offer an onboard charger as an option. I looked up the Ryobi mower and their charger is also not an "onboard charger"; it's an offboard (wall mount) charger. I think it's just a matter of using the correct terminology. I can see where one might accidently call the charger, shown in your video, an "onboard" because the batteries don't have to be removed to charge, but the location of the batteries during charging doesn't change where the charger itself is located and the charger shown in the video is not an "onboard charger" because the charger is not located within the mower; instead, the charger in your video, and the one that EGO includes, hangs on the wall or sits on a shelf and so, by definition, is not located onboard. An example of an onboard charger is when you mount a battery charger in a compartment of a fishing boat so the charger never leaves the boat and is always with you. The batteries always remain in the boat and are charged in the boat, but the charger can be an "onboard charger" meaning it's mounted in, and never leaves, the boat or it can be mounted on the wall (like the EGO charger) and not remain in the boat. Similarly, Electric Vehicles have an onboard charger. The charging station simply provides the current (typically 240v AC) and it's up to the EVs onboard charger to convert that voltage from AC to DC and regulate the voltage to the specific voltage needed to charge that battery. Most EV motorcycles have an onboard charger though some smaller ones have offboard. Like the EGO and Ryobi ZT mowers, the offboard charger is mounted to a wall and left at home when you depart rather than being carried with you "onboard".

did you get the ego? I just bought 2.5 acres. have a John Deere tractor. ready to get this 42" zt ego. I have several other ego tools and love them all

@@bryanmann6756 i certainly did and i absolutely love it , havent had any issues with it.

@@Protoolreviews for a point of reference, how much noise does a typical gas-powered riding mower make?

My grass is thin enough to run the blades at the first or second speed level and it’s pretty quiet. Faster blade speed equals more sound. Theres a rattle seeming to come during motion ,so from the deck swinging or something?

@@Dirtyboxer1 mid 90's, so quite a bit louder

Those 10ah Battery is $500 each. You are looking at a $6k lawn mower. If you buy a set off 6 more Battery, then it would be $3k. This is a total off $9K. I think i'm going back to GAS!!! Geezus! Talk about the Lambo of Lawn Mower.

I just saw a 42in Ego in Lowes for 5grand…. Yikes

@@socialmediagoon892 bought john deere zero 530m for 5k 26 hp Kawasaki engine..super great

I think it's similar to Toro's "my ride" suspension system.

4/11/22, Got a TESLA 2go w/that?

@@Protoolreviews I've had 2 batteries powering an Ego self-propelled mower, string trimmer, and chainsaw for 3 years. Batteries are holding up fine, but one of the chargers burned out and Ego replaced it for free very promptly. Very happy with both the batteries and the equipment, and their service!

I just looked at the price of a 10Ah battery that was on sale... 450 bucks. So if someone is putting away some cash in a replacement fund that's going to be $600 a year or $50 a month if the batteries start dying at the end of their 3 year warranty. I only had my zero turn mower for about 2 years before I moved to a house that didn't need it. I didn't come anywhere near spending $600 a year on gas and mantenance and I never used gas with ethenol in it. Heck, with my regular riding mower that I used for 5 years prior to the zero turn, a gas trimmer, a gas generator I may have come close to $600 to using all of those with gas and maintenace over the period of 7 years total. I love the idea of battery operated equipment that is as good or better than gas equipment. But they have to do something about the price of batteries that run them. Side note: I have a neighbor that was using an Ego push mower when I first bought the house. He's now using a gas mower. I'll have to ask him why he switched. I have a sneaking suspicion that he may have looked at the price of replacing the batteries for the mower vs using that money for a gas mower and decided to save a few bucks upfront.

@@Protoolreviews what is your comparison for EGO vs Ryobi ?

I have the Ryobi and it worked great the first season. The second season not so much. I am a battery lover but if I am being really honest it doesn't yet compare to gas (and I wanted it to). When it is cold, in an unheated garage or shed, it destroys the battery. At least it did with the Ryobi. I suspect the Ego won't be much different. Replacing the batteries will be VERY expensive.

@@Protoolreviews I don't understand the obsession w/battery yard machines; nothing beats petrol; I have a Gravely ztx-42" for a year now, great machine.

@@jeromeperkins457 You have to keep the battery indoors. If you don't take care of the battery of course it's going to die. Batteries like the same climate you do, keep them inside.

@@prestonweitersjr.9460 Properly cared for they should last way longer for less maintenance and zero emissions. All those exhaust particulates damage your brain.

Spinning blades are loud. Especially if they are designed to have adequate lift.

@@Protoolreviews I charge my ego weedeater battery from a 2000 watt inverter connected to a solar powered battery bank, all from Harbor Freight. I only have 450 watts of panels and 175 aH of solar battery bank. I suppose, if these 10aH batteries were charged separately, my solar set up would handle it no poblem. Considering that multiple batteries could be charged per day, during peak sun hours, and having a whole week between mowings, why wouldn't I be able to mow and weedeat from strictly solar/battery power? My 2000 watt inverter should be able to handle the 1600 watts all at once, but why push it? I suppose a little experimenting would be required. My 450 watts of solar panels may not be able to keep up with charging all 4 batteries at once.

About 20 cents here in VA....

Snow blower would be awesome...

That's really pretty cheap.

Big blades, faster tip speeds, more noise

4/11/22, Guy....listen to me.....don't buy this EV hype, it's a con. You got a lawn tractor, I have a Gravely. For leaves, I have a Lawn Sweeper (Ohio Steel), it will cost (there are other brands) ~$300. You put it together, hitch it to your mower, adjust pitch/brush height.....works like a charm. 2 basic sizes: 22 Cu Ft (42") & 26 Cu Ft (50"). The beauty of it is you can hitch up various attachments for different jobs w/o cumbersome installations.

@@prestonweitersjr.9460 I bought an Ego Z6 and the bagger attachment, and let me tell you I could not be happier! I've tried those Cyclone Rake setups before. That's not for me. I have a motorized sweeper for when I need a brushed tool. I've tried every leaf cleanup tool known to man. Anyway, the Z6 is no joke. I love it! And now that the 52" version is out along with the 12Ah batteries, I wish I had that one!

@Rob Roy I was seriously looking at the Cub Cadet electric ZT, but I read a lot of bad reviews about it. It doesn't seem like it's time yet for battery powered ZT's. but I'll jump on one as soon as they get established.

@Rob Roy Is it hard to keep in a straight line?

@@Protoolreviews : My parents and I owned " Triple D Equipment, Inc. in DeLand, FL "