Your guide to mowing electric with Jukka Kukkonen

05/15/25 • 59 min

More and more Minnesotans are leveling up their lawn care with an electric mower. But do they live up to the hype and can they tackle the tough stuff?

The good news is that for most residential uses, and increasingly more and more commercial uses, electric mowers are actually a superior and more economical choice than gas mowers. Battery technology has advanced dramatically in the past decade and due to this, we’re seeing more powerful electric cars and more capable electric lawnmowers.

Join us for a webinar we recently recorded with Jukka Kukkonen and guests from Fresh Energy and the Minnesota clean Cities Coalition.

View the video version of the webinar here: https://fresh-energy.org/event/webinar-your-guide-to-mowing-electric

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More and more Minnesotans are leveling up their lawn care with an electric mower. But do they live up to the hype and can they tackle the tough stuff?

Join us for a webinar we recently recorded with Jukka Kukkonen and guests from Fresh Energy and the Minnesota clean Cities Coalition.

View the video version of the webinar here: https://fresh-energy.org/event/webinar-your-guide-to-mowing-electric

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Decarbonize: The Clean Energy Podcast - Your guide to mowing electric with Jukka Kukkonen

Transcript

Jo Olson: [00:00:11] Hello and welcome to Decarbonize the Clean Energy Podcast from Fresh Energy. Fresh Energy is a Minnesota nonprofit working to speed our state's transition to a clean energy economy. My name is Jo Olson. I'm the chief communications officer here at Fresh Energy, and today we are sharing a recording with you from what's always one of our more popular webinars. It's called Your Guide to Mowing Electric, and it features all-electric Minnesota celebrity Jukka K