Yeah, Ive had a couple electric mowers and wasnt impressed with them. Needing to have hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of batteries just isnt appealing to me.I haven't heard of the batteries failing to take a charge yet, just that they certainly don't last as long on a charge after 2 years. That would suck if the battery fails to the point where you can't use the mower at all.
Last year I bought a new Honda gas mower and now that Honda is getting out and gas in general is probably going to become a thing of the past, I find myself looking more and more at hand yard tools: dual wheeled edge, edging shears and when my Honda either wears out or rusts out I will most likely replace it with a manual reel mower. Im just not going to spend $700-$1K on an electric push mower and then spend another $500 every 2-5 years replacing the battery. Not to mention if you have a mower, blower and string trimmer that all run on the same batteries, youre probably looking at $500-$1K worth of batteries just to take care of your yard every week.