Here’s the list of tools and equipment — and what it cost me — to build a garage-height, solar-powered, commercial lawn care rig from the ground up.🌞
🔋 SOLAR CHARGING SYSTEM — $3,200
☀️ 4x Rich Solar 250W Solar Panels
⚡️ EG4 3000EHV-48 All-In-One Off-Grid Inverter
🔋 EG4 LifePower4 V2 48V 100Ah Lithium Battery
➡ Powers everything — I haven't had to plug it in even once yet. No More Fuel Bills 🤯
🛠️ EGO Commercial Lawn Equipment (w/ 30% Instant CO State Rebate) — $10,926
🧼 MOWERS:
- EGO Z6 42" Zero Turn Riding Mower w/ 4x 12Ah Batteries — $4,199.96
- EGO Commercial 22" Push Mower — $909.95
💨 BLOWER & TRIMMERS:
- EGO Commercial Backpack Blower w/ 2x 7.5Ah Batteries — $489.30
- EGO Commercial Edger — $307.30
- EGO Commercial String Trimmer — $230.30
- EGO Commercial Multi-Head Power Tool — $359.00
🧼 DETHATCHER:
- EGO 14" Multi-Head Dethatcher Attachment — $249.00
🔋 BATTERIES & CHARGING:
- 2x EGO 12Ah Batteries — $1,003.43
- EGO Commercial Battery Charger — $439.00
- EGO Commercial 3-Port Battery Dock — $219.00
- EGO Commercial Backpack Link Adapter — $249.00
🚛 TRAILER + BUILD MATERIALS — $5,014
- 5×10 Utility Trailer — $4,400.00
- Landscape Tool Rack — $40.00
- Zero-Turn Mower Tie-Downs, Racks, Straps — $250.00
- Safety Equipment — $100.00
- Electrical Components (breakers, outlets, wiring, lights) — $300.00
- Miscellaneous Install Hardware — $100.00
🚛 TOTAL — $19,140
👉 I’m sharing the entire build process step-by-step on YouTube — and I just posted Part 4!
📺 Watch here: https://youtu.be/HFqHjbio3Qk
Enjoy!
by ecojoelawncare
23 Comments
This is cracked
You have a single kilowatt of charging capabilities with your solar cells but your main mower consumes 16kW. Will not be long before you’re plugging it in to charge.
Probably easiest to just get a small gas generator to charge all your batteries while you cut customer lawns.
I spent way more on real tools. Good job!
Incredible. Tax write offs for the equipment gonna have you looking REAL nice. You’re a one man army too. Long as you marketed correctly with good socials and website you should be able to do GREAT in your market if you’re not already.
Do you get power from the pickup also to help re-charge everything?
Super sick set up. I would love to see more of the industry go electric like you’ve done
I would absolutely pay A premium for a zero emissions lawn care service. That more importantly, I don’t have to worry about 2 stroke engine noise, bothering my neighbors.
Questionable efficacy of this setup but OP will get a bunch of customers and be able to charge a premium by selling the green energy schtick. Bonus his customers and their neighbors won’t have to listen to louder-than-rocketship gas powered blowers.
How long will it take you to pay this off keeping it working five days a week?
Very cool! How many acres do you think you are mowing daily?
Protect your gear. Hopefully, you never have to deal with meth head trying stealing your trailer.
Put a tracker if you haven’t already.
Does the solar charge your big battery?
how much gas are you not using each day?
$19k seems like a steal for all that. Very nice.
I would want that locked up tight overnight.
How long does the equipment have to last just to make back the investment? Excluding labor and trailer costs?
This is awesome
I feel sorry for the customer that gets your bill
Has the stuff ever been used,’? Seems super clean
Save.
Very cool. Just bought a bunch of lawn equipment for my house that’s electric. I’ll see how it holds up vs gas.
how many lawns do you do a day? I thought I would need a ridiculous amount of batteries to keep my crews moving the whole day.
Do you have any concerns about the temperature inside the trailer? Not sure how hot it normally runs in there but I could see that impacting the battery life if they’re in there all day everyday.
Dude that is awesome!! I’m so impressed!!