Electric riding mower at CES!

The Cub Cadet RTZ-S Zero isn’t quite as good as a 1973 Elec-Trak… because it’s not a garden tractor capable of mowing, it’s a dedicated riding lawnmower. CES coverage at wired.com.

Despite the battery life being somewhat disappointing compared to Apollo-era Elec-Traks, it looks like a very nice machine – and only about $1100 more than a comparable gasser, so it’d pay for itself pretty quickly if you actually need a riding mower. And there’s an upside to the shorter run time and dedication to a single job – you have to figure it’s probably significantly lighter than the larger Elec-traks with their quarter-ton of lead-acid batteries – you can’t really hop off a stuck E20 or I5 and just push it out of a ditch like a gasoline rider, you have to go fetch a heavy tow chain.

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