GoKawiilThe current EV market is flush with variety. I’ve driven single-motor economy-minded machines, dual-motor EVs with all-wheel drive, tri-motor vehicles that dial up the performance stakes, and even wild quad-motor performance cars, like the Rimac Nevera.
But this is the first time I’ve ever driven a five-motor EV, one with the agility and speed to turn a 360 even more smoothly than an electric G-Wagon. It also makes quick work of terrible turf.
This is, of course, a lawn mower, and it only uses two of those motors to drive the wheels. The other three turn a trio of blades that cut a 54-inch-wide swath in a single pass. It also promises four acres on a charge and is positioned as the ultimate mowing machine. For $8,799, it had better be.
For a company that spent much of its life building white-label tools for other brands, Changzhou, China-based Greenworks has quickly leaped to the forefront of battery-powered products for those trying to phase out internal combustion in every facet of their lives. Opening a manufacturing facility in Tennessee in 2023 certainly helped elevate its domestic cred.
The company offers a wide portfolio of products from power tools to go-karts energized by a dizzying array of often incompatible battery technologies. The 80-volt architecture within the MaximusZ mower here is the company’s latest, with Greenworks offering various packs of various sizes. This mower uses four smaller 6.0Ah and two large, 17-pound 16Ah packs to offer a combined battery capacity of 56Ah. That, Greenworks says, is enough to do four acres on a single charge.
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