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The cfm from electric leaf blowers are so far off from commercial gas blowers that I'm not confident they'll ever reach parity. Plus if you use high end commercial blowers you'll find that their effectiveness is somewhat exponential, that tail end of the performance lets you move a dense wall of leaves where with an electric you might as well be blowing a brick wall (I own both kinds).

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Really? How old is your electric blower? If I look at current generation gas and electric leaf blowers for sale at Home Depot at similar price points, I find surprisingly similar specs in terms of velocity and CFM.

I assume that what’s going on is that the actual electric mechanism is vastly simpler — the motor is quite small, so you put it where you want it instead of worrying about belts or other power transmission devices), and there’s no need to handle fuel. On the flip side, batteries are fairly expensive.

Im actually pretty impressed at how much electric has caught up since i shopped for these a couple years ago, ego commercial 800 claims 800cfm at 190mph which isnt bad. I was thinking electric was still maxed out around 500cfm. Stihl gas blowers can do 912cfm at 240mph.

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