Ryobi charges $119 for a spare 4ah battery for the stick vac that I bought. For $10 more, I can get the same battery with a second charger and a (probably lackluster) leaf blower.
None of this makes sense.
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Fiat World!
I stick with corded yard tools for this reason.
I got burned by tool manufacturers obsoleting their battery models every two years.
With hand tools such as screw guns, I just assume they will only last the life of the "replaceable" battery. So wasteful, but such is life.
Someone mentioned there's an adapter that will make new DeWalt batteries compatible with their old tools but that probably wouldn't help much unless you owned quite a few obscure tools that are rarely sold in an all-in-one package deal like drills and drivers are.
Now an adapter that would work between brands might be worth the investment. These "new" Ryobi batteries are already very similar in shape to the old style DeWalts.
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Consume, consume, consume....we give you the batt and charger for basically nothing in a kit so youll be trapped in our ecosystem and we can milk you for the life if the product.
Batteries etc dont appear on our sales figures so we need you to buy more product to pump our sales numbers to stock holders.
Clown world
Yeah it does, that leaf blower blows π. Prob 10min or less of π¨
