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My parents always had lawns but always had a battery powered mower. They currently have a small lawn that continues to their neighbor's yard that they're planning to replace with something more eco-friendly & drought-tolerant.
I remember my parents were early adopters in 2011 so we had an electric mower that wasn't battery powered, you would actually have to plug it into the outlet. I remember going to school one day in the 3rd grade, we were assigned to talk about the chores we did around the house, I said that I liked to plug the mower into the outlet and mow the lawn. I got docked 50 points because the teacher didn't believe my lawnmower was electric. "Are you sure you don't crank it?"
My great-grandparents had an electric mower in the 80s. I never saw anyone else with one until the 2010s.