Comments on: Husqvarna Showcasing Robotic Solar Hybrid Lawnmower at CES

By: David

David — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:11:05 +0000

That is awesome, more people would mow there own lawn if they owned one of those. However, the $3k price tag is way to much.

By: David

David — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:11:00 +0000

That is awesome, more people would mow there own lawn if they owned one of those. However, the $3k price tag is way to much.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:00:58 +0000

No rain on your parade intended, but: shouldn’t America be planting food in place of lawns this time around? The Trillions on bail-outs are just about out of gas, markets sagging, and the next “Cycle” in our “Cyclic” Economy is soon upon us, and indicators are, we are in for the eventually unavoidable “Greater Depression” very soon! Our Dollar has been “Fiatted’ to worthlessness, soon to fall from “International Currency” status, disabling us from printing a money ladder out of our hole, at the expense of others, as in the past, and we have lost manufacturing to a smarter, faster, harder working, Asia, Our resources all gone, even finding Prozac in some of our drinking water! Mexicans have wars in their streets for who gets to drug our children, and Microsoft does all our thinking for us! OPEC and the Saudis, can make just as much selling oil to Asia, so we have lost “Exclusivity” there, and Oil is rising as we speak, and the all powerful second coming, Obama can’t even get us decent medical care at fair cost! At least this Mower is environmentally friendly, but a similarly powered “Roto-Tiller” will soon be appropriate, if not now, and much appreciated in a gasoline starved America!

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:27:51 +0000

@Denis Anson:

You did your math wrong. A 12 watt panel will recharge a 79 watt hour battery in 6.6 hours. That is fairly reasonable for a mower. If I were designing the system I would almost exclusively use the solar. If you consider the fact that you only need to mow once a week it would be easy for it to charge itself between mowings.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:27:00 +0000

@Denis Anson:

By: Scott_T

Scott_T — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:26:19 +0000

The money is probably better spent on a grid intertie solar system and an electric mower. And how come my post times are always screwed up here? I made my first post about 10am est.

By: Scott_T

Scott_T — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:26:00 +0000

The money is probably better spent on a grid intertie solar system and an electric mower. And how come my post times are always screwed up here? I made my first post about 10am est.

By: Denis Anson

Denis Anson — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:41:28 +0000

The battery holds a bit over 79 watt hours of power. In full daylight, it would be fully recharged by sunlight in 6600 hours, or about a year and a half. Can you say “hybrid in name only?”

By: Denis Anson

Denis Anson — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:41:00 +0000

The battery holds a bit over 79 watt hours of power. In full daylight, it would be fully recharged by sunlight in 6600 hours, or about a year and a half. Can you say “hybrid in name only?”

By: Scott_T

Scott_T — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:58:11 +0000

12MW solar panel? I could use this to power my town while its not mowing.

By: Scott_T

Scott_T — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:58:00 +0000

12MW solar panel? I could use this to power my town while its not mowing.

By: Peter J. McCarthy

Peter J. McCarthy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:08:51 +0000

LOL! And only $3,000!

By: Peter J. McCarthy

Peter J. McCarthy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:08:00 +0000

LOL! And only $3,000!