Husqvarna is soon going to be releasing their solar-powered hybrid lawnmower in the US. The autonomous device can maintain yards up to half an acre in size, gathering most of it’s power from the sun. If the automower gets too low on power, it can also roll itself back to a base station to recharge via an electric outlet. Zero emission yard care will become a lot easier with this gadget, but it’s expected to cost several thousand dollars. If that’s too steep, there is always the good old fashioned push mower, which of course is emission free as well.
[via Engadget]
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It will be great when the day comes that we see devices like this in everyones home, 7 grand is a bit steep but i guess thats the price of progress.
October 25th, 2008 at 3:01 am
I’m sure this stirs a similar reaction to when mowers were first introduced… wow, what’ll they think of next? Bit expensive tho’… let’s wait a decade(?) til the price drops…. then everyone will have one.
October 26th, 2008 at 12:25 am
As a lawn care professional for the past 10 years my initial thought was one of concern for the people in the industry. The more I thought about it the more I see that it will only ever be a machine for general low level maintenance of turf, there’s just so much more involved to lawn care or even lawn mowing to gain a professional result than just the mowing. I’ll start to get worried when they invent a self operating line trimmer :) Until then I think we can categorise this into the “rich boys toys” category. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind one myself.
June 20th, 2009 at 11:25 pm