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Gas-powered lawn mower gone solar via 3-step mod

by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted May 29th 2008 at 5:23PM

Solar lawn mower
With the price of gas these days, it's no wonder people are skittish when it comes to mowing lawns. What's more, gas-powered mowers have been shown to pollute up to 7 times as much as vehicles. Sure, you could go get a manual mower and get some exercise, but why do that when you can convert your gas-powered mower into an electric one? This modification takes you through three steps to do just that, including: removing the engine and installing an electric replacement, converting the engine to one powered by solar panels, and installing the solar panel. Expect conversion costs to run around $1,500. Of course, you could always just buy a Huskvarna and skip all this tomfoolery.

Husqvarna introduces pricey solar powered Automower

by Darren Murph, posted Mar 6th 2008 at 4:40PM


Robotic lawn mowers have been keeping yards tidy for their masters for a good while now, but Husqvarna is looking to teach an old robot new tricks with its Automower. As expected, the grass muncher is ultra-quiet and outputs zero emissions, and you can even program it to take off and get to work whenever you please. Reportedly, a fully charged battery can get about 40 minutes of cutting done, and best of all, the unit will automatically return to its charging base to juice back up if the sun isn't out. Still, with a price tag of around £2,000 ($3,971), you may just be better off paying that punk kid down the street to handle your mowing needs.

[Via Pocket-lint, video at Megawhat]

iRobot cooking up lawn mower bot

by Ryan Block, posted Aug 23rd 2006 at 9:51AM

First Roomba, then came Scooba, next up: an iRobot lawnbot? Well, according to a Forbes profile of everybody's favorite domestic-botmaker, iRobot's working on a bomb sniffer to round out its compliment of functional droids, as well as "a robot lawn mower." Yep, another one of those things. So, what shall it be named, we wonder? We'd put our cash on Lawnie, but we'll still hit up the 5:1 on Lawnba. Just be sure and stay away from the 10:1 on Yardba, though, that one's definitely not gonna happen.

[Via GoRobotics]
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