Do Videos Show a DeWalt Electric Mower Catching on Fire?

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showed two pictures of the fire and read, “Dewalt broke out their new electric mower at equipment expo…. Hell of a sales pitch ‘electric is the future’We reached out to a media contact on DeWalt’s website with several questions. The company sent back a brief statement, which was alsoA prototype of one of DEWALT’s new Ascent mowers caught fire during the Equip Exposition last week in Louisville, Kentucky.

Here is the company’s statement: “We are grateful that no one was injured. We are working quickly to determine the cause of the issue with this single pre-production prototype unit and will provide further information when available.”, the company’s Ascent Series mowers are indeed electric , commercial-grade products. The page promoting the mowers displayed, “Coming Fall 2023,” which meant that the series wasn’t set to be released for around a year.

Vehicles powered by electricity, whether they be cars or riding mowers, have become a hot topic in the world of U.S. politics. This has led to quite a few rumors in recent years. For example, earlier in 2022, Facebook users copied and pasted an evidence-free post about John Deere, a company that also manufactures lawn equipment. According to the post, John Deere purportedly asked a farmer to convert his equipment to electric-power tractors and combines by the year 2023. The farmer then supposedly posed a number of questions in response, apparently leaving the company representative speechless.

in August, the company said it doesn’t even have plans for any battery-operated or electric large tractors and combines, which called the whole story into question.

 

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Cracks me up how when an EV catches fire, it's all frontpage news, like gasoline never catches on fire.

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