I don't understand the speeding up going downhills. I have some fairly steep hills, and can almost get it to a full stop by letting off of the accelerator.
Dennis ________________________________ From: EV <[email protected]> on behalf of jim via EV <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 2:47 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: jim <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] electric riding mowers? =Ryobi variable speed? A good friend has a Ryobi electric riding mower and his wife has been using it for over 3 years. Battery capacity is noticeably less than when new (but she mows until the machine slows down considerably). They don't like the "cruise control" on their hilly yard as there is no regenerative braking so it speeds up going downhill. The ride is very rough on their rough yard, too, and he found features like the charging for I-phone to be frivolous. But he seems fairly happy with the machine otherwise, especially since his wife likes to use it.Personally, I like my E-15 GE tractor. I replaced the controls with newer solid state parts but still spend a lot of time on maintenance and repairs, mostly mower motor bearings, leaky tires, and other things that aren't surprising on a machine approaching 50 years old. I can mow a couple of acres of rough lawn and orchard on my 5 year old golf cart batteries, and tow pretty good sized loads on trailers when I need to. Jim, in Menomonie, WI -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210816/0f484caf/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210817/d5a109e5/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
