I doubt the “average” gets maintenance and many die a death from thousands of ways- transaxle failures, deck damage, repairs are more than it’s worth, etc.
I can confirm that trying to get anything warrantied/repaired by eGO *****.
There are thousands of (comparatively bad) 1045 cub cadets still tooling around. More often than not the deck wears out before the chassis/motor (and the decks on the EL units aren't very good).
If you plan on pulling a wagon, the instant torque on electric tractors is a massive plus compared to gas. Just check the hitch weight capacity before buying, and look into aftermarket universal canopies to save some money.
Eh? Winter is good for modern battery storage. Shouldn't charge it if it's freezing... Most BMS will prevent this anyway. Get to 80% and throw that stuff in the shop.. It'll be fine next summer!
I should have been more specific. I do have small trickle type smart chargers. so more maintaining.
Lithium ion and lithium iron phosphate batteries will experience faster degradation being kept over 70-80 percent charge level and is worse if left that way for significant time. Charging below freezing will damage them as well. Many, especially Lifepo4 will experience damage if you use them below freezing as well requiring heaters to use them in cold weather. Many have BMS controllers built into the packs that will not let you charge or use them if outside temp parameters
Some even have heaters to warm the batteries when you connect a charger... the BMS automatically enables the heater and resumes charging when it's safe.
gas engines last indefinitely if maintained for home use. The red one was not maintained..
Eventually all parts have a life cycle and wear out or break from fatigue regardless of how rigorous the maintenance schedule is. And age doesn’t equal thousands of hours of use.
