Compare maintenance: Gas leaf blowers need regular maintenance for performance and longevity: replace spark plugs, clean or replace air filters and belts, and check fuel lines for leaks. Neglecting regular maintenance can lead to reduced performance, increased emissions, engine damage, and breakdowns in 2-stroke equipment from employees mixing the gas-oil ratio incorrectly.
To store a gas leaf blower for more than a month, drain all fuel from the tank and fuel lines, so it doesn’t gum up the carburetor. Add fuel stabilizer to the gas in the container, to make sure it doesn’t lose its combustibility over time.
Electric leaf blowers are virtually maintenance-free.
Battery-powered Landscape Equipment vs Gas: What Commercial Crews Need to Know, Lawn & Landscape, July 2026 …outfitted their trailers with mobile power stations that recharge batteries in the field, contributing to daily efficiency. “You swap a battery every 2 or 3 hours instead of stopping to refuel, which dramatically reduces downtime. No more fuel runs, so crews aren’t taking 20, 30-minute breaks at the gas station. That’s pretty huge from a productivity standpoint.”
Charged and Ready to Go: What Landscapers Need to About Charging Battery-poweredEquipment. Design Build, June 2026 A list of considerations before making the switch, for example, swapable vs fixed battery systems.
Arlington County webinar Oct 29th, 2025: 3 landscape companies discuss charging batteries, cost, and customer reactions (Little Foot Organic Lawn Care (Falls Church, VA), Serenity Lawn (NY), Sust Landscaping – now Chargebot (Montgomery County). Sust Landscaping estimates ROI on switching to all electric is 2 to 4 years
A Maryland Sierra Club webinar: The Future of Lawn Care is Electrifying, 2025 features 5 landscape companies who use electric lawn care equipment – Luminary Lawns,(MD), Backyard Bounty (DC), Cultural Lawns (CT), Serenity Lawn (NY) and Sust Landscaping, now ChargeBot, (MD).
Florida State Parks Foundation partners with Stihl: Over 50 parks to get 350 new pieces of electric landscape equipment, Jan 2026.
Stihl’s Roger Phelps says in this 2023 article, “One of our fastest-growing customers is the state parks. We have a great relationship with America’s state parks. They rely a lot on seasonal labor. You can’t really depend on seasonal labor to start equipment properly or learn how to mix two-cycle fuel. I give them a piece of equipment; I give them a battery. Push the button. How many bars, put the battery in, pull the trigger. You’re done. That’s about as easy as it gets.”
Phelps says this ease of use is what’s enticing many landscape businesses to take a strong look at battery-powered equipment.
“Landscapers are saying ‘Wow! This is easier to use,’” he says. “It
has all the market benefits, low emissions, low noise. As we see fuel prices climb up to $4 a gallon… all of a sudden, that 5 cents an hour for your watt hours starts to look pretty good. “
Husqvarna and Towa Industries Partner, Landscape Management (a trade magazine), Oct 14, 2025
Husqvarna has announced a collaboration with TOWA Industries, a Silicon Valley based innovator in smart power management and charging infrastructure. Through the integration of TOWA’s smart-charging and power management technology, Husqvarna is closing the loop on a complete electric ecosystem, ensuring seamless operation from the field to the fleet.
Stihl battery savings calculator (on switching to electric yard equipment), 2025 – no longer in service
Turf Magazine: podcast on switching to electric, Oct 2025, on Greenworks equipment – their most powerful leaf blower now is 26 N with a 30 min run-time on high power. In development is the new “X Range”: a 42 N model, and a 50 N model with 1150 cfm, 30-min run time on high, will be the most powerful leaf blower on the market.
Lawn & Landscape, 5 landscapers from PA, GA, MO, SC, and FL discuss their switch to electric – the challenges, the economics, July 2025, sponsored by Stihl, “The Switch that Saves You Money”
Lawn & Landscape, 5 landscaping companies who switch to electric, Sept., 2024 Great Outdoors, (Ann Arbor, MI), Royal Greens, (Frederick, MD), Spark Lawn, (Ark) FormLA, (CA), Serpico, (CA)
The Edge, National Associaton of Landscape Professionals, one company in GA, March, 2025
E-SCAPES Electric Lawn Care, transitioned to all-electric equipment during the pandemic. Bellows (Acewoth, Georgia) says since the switch, his profit margin has increased tremendously.
“When the guys get here, they immediately can leave and get to work, which means we have the availability to add more jobs, which makes more money for them and more money for all of us,” Bellows says.
He adds that not having the expenditures of hiring a mechanic or serving as a mechanic himself has also improved their bottom line.
Lawn & Landscape, Oct 2024, reports on a mobile charging unit – ChargeBot.
The Edge, March 2024, Lawn care professionals: their stories of switching to electric ,“Comparing it to gas, I certainly think it[an electric leaf blower] takes a little bit more time. On the maintenance side, a gas-powered crew would get done in 20 minutes and an electric crew, it’s probably going to take about 25 minutes.” (EcoMow Lawn & Landscape, Dallas, Texas)
U.S.PIRG report, Oct 2023, Lawn Care Goes Electric
Arborgold.com Is Battery-powered equipment right for your commercial lawn care business?