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Best Budget Lawn Mowers – Consumer Reports
The sweet spot for lawn mower value is between $350 and $500. Even at prices below that range, you’ll find a few very good gas or battery push mowers in our ratings, some with helpful features like folding handles and the option of upright storage. Among the three gas and four battery models featured below—all priced around $300 and recommended…
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Best Battery Riding Lawn Mowers of 2025
To get you ratings and reviews of the latest models by early spring, we travel to our mower testing facility in Fort Myers, Fla., to conduct tests in late winter at grounds we prepare each year. We plant 1,800 pounds of grass seed (predominantly annual rye, prized for its dense growth) and cut 500,000 square feet of grass in three…
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Best Battery Mowers and Tractors for Mulching Your Grass
To get you ratings and reviews of the latest models by early spring, we travel to our mower testing facility in Fort Myers, Fla., to conduct tests in late winter at grounds we prepare each year. We plant 1,800 pounds of grass seed (predominantly annual rye, prized for its dense growth) and cut 500,000 square feet of grass in three…
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Best Lawn Mowers for Small Yards
Push mowers (either gas or battery) are great for yards that take up to about a half hour to mow. But they have limitations, too. “Once you start creeping above that length of time, anyone can start getting a little fatigued pushing a mower around,” Trezza says. The bells and whistles on more complex and expensive self-propelled mowers (gas and…
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Best Lawn Mowers and Tractors of 2025
That’s not to say that all of the mowers we’ve tested are great or even all that similar. Trezza notes that our ratings primarily differ when it comes to the convenience features each mower and tractor offers, the level of noise each makes, and their battery life—at least for electric mowers. “Mowers and tractors also can vary a lot in…
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Best Riding Lawn Mowers of 2025
To get you ratings and reviews of the latest models by early spring, we travel to our mower testing facility in Fort Myers, Fla., to conduct tests in late winter at grounds we prepare each year. We plant 1,800 pounds of grass seed (predominantly annual rye, prized for its dense growth) and cut 500,000 square feet of grass in three…
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Best Robotic Lawn Mowers of 2025
Robotic lawn mowers require some initial work on your part to set up, including the usual pickup of rocks and other small debris before each mowing session, but they can give you precious time back. They are customizable, and though the initial cost of the machine is steep—models we tested range in price from $650 to $2,650—you’d save money over…
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Husqvarna’s new robot mowers offer GPS for less
Staying on top of your lawn is undoubtedly one of the most tedious summer chores, especially if you have an expansive yard. Robot mowers take away much of the pain, but as much as we loved the GPS-packed Husqvarna Automower 450XH EPOS, the $5,900 price tag put it beyond the reach of most budgets. While the company sells cheaper models,…
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10 Best Battery Lawn Mowers of 2024, Tested by Our Experts
Run times have improved. Several battery and self-propelled mowers in our ratings offer impressive run times of 70 or more minutes. (The average run time of battery mowers in our tests is 45 to 50 minutes.) Some manufacturers are designing new models with multiple battery slots. When one battery is spent, another can take over, a feature CR’s expert testers…
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The Next Generation of Robot Lawn Mowers Do More Than Just Mow
We may earn a commission from links on this page. The next batch of robot lawn mowers do so much more than just mow. For the last six months, I have had fun testing robot lawn mowers, and even in that short time, I’ve seen innovation happening. (For instance, Mammotion and Segway finally pushed their lawn printing features live.) I…
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