The past two years has seen us provide detailed reviews of the electric, cordless, lawn mower from Linamar Consumer Products with the optional solar charging option.
This lawn mower is sold throughout North America under the Solaris, Epic and Utopia brand names, each with slightly different finishing.
For historical purposes, here is the link to our review of the 2008 electric cordless lawn mower, its first year, including our use of the optional solar charging station to maximize our energy savings by using only electricity generated from the sun, for those interested.
What about our series of articles reviewing the 2009 model? You can see it in the picture below with the optional rear grass catcher.
As those who have already followed both series know, there were major changes between the 2008 and 2009 model years.
However, just before I was about to write our article summarizing our reviews from last year I received a request from a visitor to our site, DailyHomeRenoTips.com, to compare the 2009 model to the 2010 model.
So, I first tried to do my own research and went to the Solaris web site. I seemed as if it was the same as last year; same for the Epic and Utopia web sites as well.
I then contacted Linamar Consumer Products directly to ask them what was new for 2010 with any of the Solaris, Utopia or Epic brands.
The reply from Steven, their lead Customer Service representative, was that there was to be ’… no changes in design…’ or pricing in any of the three brands for 2010.
Of course, retailers may have their independent promotions during the year.
So, if you see a 2009 model on sale, all things being equal, buy it rather than waiting for a 2010 model to be available later in the year because, according to Steven, there are no design changes. So, this picture of our 2009 model, this time without the rear grass catcher below, is what you will also get for 2010.
With that in mind, what follows is the collection of articles we wrote last year on the 2009 model which are now equally applicable for 2010.
One aspect I did not get to last year was to setup the 2008 solar charging station. Life sometimes gets in the way. 
As well, I have also received emails asking me how my Solaris lawn mower is performing, as well as its batteries, now one year later. Once the snow is gone from our lawn, the grass has started to grow I’ll return to revisit both aspects and let you know.
For now, here are the links to each article of our review of the 2009, and now also 2010, Solaris electric cordless lawn mower.
Part 1 - Looks Very Different from 2008
Part 2 - Status Indicator and Height Adjustment
Part 3 - The Batteries and Recharging
Part 4 - Terra Phase Brushless Electric Motor
Part 6 - 2008 vs 2009 (and now 2010) Model Comparison
Hopefully the weather cooperates and in a few week’s I’ll return to let you know how the 2009 model performed during its first use in 2010.
