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Re:The Case Against More Ethanol (2016) by throwaway0a5e on Monday November 02, 2020 @12:09PM (#24970403)
You're not gonna see people climbing trees with electric chainsaws for a long time. With current battery tech power to weight is still a decent way off from ICE, especially in applications where weight is optimized for. Sure, most stuff will be electric but ICE will stick around for a long time. Niches with a high cost of labor tend to amplify viability differences. Electric is just easier and once it's viable people switch to it but don't expect it to completely dominate overnight.
Re:The Case Against More Ethanol (2016) by hedora on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:48PM (#24973823)
This electric chainsaw beats out gas for limbs and small trees in my experience:

https://egopowerplus.com/16-inch-chain-saw/

If you need more than a 16” bar, then, yeah, you’ll end up with a gas chainsaw, but the weight of battery + electric motor is less than ICE + gasoline at this size.

Also, electric is much, quieter, less smelly, less maintenance, avoids trips to the gas station, etc.