It’s a valid question - there is a guy near me who does all electric lawn care - he’s got a pickup with a bunch of solar panels in the back but I can’t imagine he’s getting a whole lot of charging between jobs, even parked in full sun on a pleasant day.

Yeah... I get the initiative and don't hate the idea. The problem is technology isn't there yet. At least not at reliable and cheap enough levels.

It just says it will be illegal to sell. They could still leave the city to get a new mower.

You buy them out of state or whatever? Lol

Or you know buy extra batteries, or plug them in at a customers place etc..

Maybe emissions standards for commercial lawn equipment? If there are existing standards they're probably pretty low.

Probably not practical for very small engines (especially those using premix), but a lot of commercial landscaping mowers are pretty big and expensive now, so maybe there's some room to get some economical emissions controls on them to clean up their exhaust without impacting businesses too much.

The solution is to hot swap batteries

I doubt lawn guys average more than 1 lawn every half an hour. Assuming an 8 hour work day, that’s 16 batteries. Yes it sounds like a lot but that’s absolutely an amount you can carry around in a truck and ~$3k in batteries per year isn’t exorbitant when it comes to business expenses.

Realistically we won’t see places going out of business from this, but you can expect the cost of lawn care to go up a few bucks per service.