WATCH: DeWalt Electric Lawnmower Bursts Into Flames At The Equipment Expo During Its Debut

Companies are doing everything they can to get their “green” electric products on the market as soon as possible. Are they doing this because people want it so much? No. They are doing it to push a progressive ideology, which is the worst reason ever. You will fail if you don’t pay attention to the market and make products that people want. Remember when Obama was in office and there was a big “solar” boom? All those “green jobs” that everyone was supposed to be getting?

You probably don’t remember because they all failed so fast. People in America aren’t ready for big changes. Now, many people who live in big liberal cities probably love the idea of an electric car, if they even drive. Most people in these cities walk or take public transportation. But EVs don’t make much sense for people who live in the suburbs and drive long distances.

But no matter what, companies are going crazy making “green products,” and it looks like karma is having a great time with them along the way.

Dewalt broke out their new electric mower at equipment expo…. Hell of a sales pitch “electric is the future” 🤡 how about those emissions 🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/oS4sXb411N

— AL Kid™🥋 (@Robertfritz33) October 25, 2022

During an equipment show, the popular tool company DeWalt saw their electric lawnmower prototype catch fire. Things got so bad that the fire department had to put out the fire. Seriously, these ion battery fires are not something you want to mess with. They are so risky.

If you use social media, you may have heard from Protool Reviews that a prototype DeWalt battery-powered zero-turn lawn mower caught fire on the first day of Equip Expo 2022 (formerly GIE). We don’t know of any injuries, which is good. Even though it makes for interesting headlines and a lot of talks, I think there are some things to add.

First of all, this DeWalt Ascent battery-powered zero-turn lawn mower was a prototype, not a final model that will be sold. After the press conference where the mower was announced, we talked to the president of Stanley Black & Decker, Christine Potter. She told us that making this is even harder than making an electric car. You are adding spinning blades and making it much tougher for the environment it needs to thrive in.

You don’t expect your prototypes to have problems this big, but you do expect to find places where they could be better. In the design process, this is why there is a step called “prototype.”

Having a failure this big happen in public is, of course, a nightmare for everyone involved. The design team has probably had a long night and will keep having long days as they try to figure out what went wrong. The marketing team and the executives will have a lot of meetings to figure out how to tell the public about it.

In the short term, the people who worked on the product will learn from the analysis, which will help them improve it. More than that, the industry as a whole will be waiting to hear what happened and will learn from it, making all battery-powered lawnmowers better and safer.

Keep in mind that the people who design and make products are real people. They want to make products that work well and are safe for people to use. In the case of DeWalt commercial lawnmowers, they are being made to be better than Hustler and Cub Cadet, which are also part of the Stanley Black & Decker group.

I get that people want to cover up for these fires by saying they don’t happen very often. But maybe that’s because there were so many batteries on the market. I have heard that there are a lot of problems with these battery fires, and I know that they are much more dangerous than other fires. For these fires to be dealt with safely, fire officials need to be trained in a certain way.

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WATCH: DeWalt Electric Lawnmower Bursts Into Flames at the Equipment Expo During its Debut