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I have a fairly new Honda Petrol Lawn mower.
I cut my Lawns every week during the early summer.
I worked out the distance I walk behind this machine and estimate I get about 3-4 miles per gallon out of it. It has the standard, I think, Briggs and Stratton engine, no silencer or other exhaust restrictions so very very basic. But 3-4 miles to a gallon seems ridiculously excessive. A 40 ton Lorry get around 12 to the gallon and look what they are dragging around. I have a 3 litre car and can get 40 miles to the gallon out of it. OK it has engine management systems around it but it also has air con etc to power and of course air resistance to overcome but get 10 times more mpg than that of a silly little petrol mower.
Surely there is a market there for someone to make a killing producing at least a reasonably efficient lawn mower engine.
James Dyson sorted out the complacent Vacuum Cleaner market out, so there is another market to sort out in Lawn mowers, maybe not as big a market as the 'Hoover' market, but surely a lucrative market to sort out.
I haven't the skill, Knowledge, finances or capability to address it but as they say, this is not rocket science.
So come on you mechanical engineering geniuses out there, make yourself a Millionaire, and don't forget me when you do it. The likes of Honda, Toro, Hayter, Qualcast, etc. etc. would love to hear from you.
I cut my Lawns every week during the early summer.
I worked out the distance I walk behind this machine and estimate I get about 3-4 miles per gallon out of it. It has the standard, I think, Briggs and Stratton engine, no silencer or other exhaust restrictions so very very basic. But 3-4 miles to a gallon seems ridiculously excessive. A 40 ton Lorry get around 12 to the gallon and look what they are dragging around. I have a 3 litre car and can get 40 miles to the gallon out of it. OK it has engine management systems around it but it also has air con etc to power and of course air resistance to overcome but get 10 times more mpg than that of a silly little petrol mower.
Surely there is a market there for someone to make a killing producing at least a reasonably efficient lawn mower engine.
James Dyson sorted out the complacent Vacuum Cleaner market out, so there is another market to sort out in Lawn mowers, maybe not as big a market as the 'Hoover' market, but surely a lucrative market to sort out.
I haven't the skill, Knowledge, finances or capability to address it but as they say, this is not rocket science.
So come on you mechanical engineering geniuses out there, make yourself a Millionaire, and don't forget me when you do it. The likes of Honda, Toro, Hayter, Qualcast, etc. etc. would love to hear from you.