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I love my electric mower, but the batteries are awful: too small for a motor that sized. The high current draw + summer heat absolutely destroyed the batteries after a season. The 5 Ah replacement batteries are like $150 (they also fit my weedeater, leaf blower, and hedge trimmer).
Ended up hacking a 10 Ah e-bike battery onto it (plenty of room inside the housing) and wiring just the board from the old factory battery to trick the DRM or whatever on the motor controller into letting the mower work. Drilled a small hole for the charge port, and it's been a dream.
Not a recommendation exactly, but I use the Ryobi 18V range. The good part is that the mower, whipper snipper, etc are cheap, but the real win is that the batteries can be shared. This means I feel like the investment in the batteries is worth it, even as they age out. Ryobi batteries are also pretty good. Really wish a larger company like, say, Makita, had a shared battery system as large as Ryobi.
EDIT: Yep Makita do now. Nice.
That's how my Kobalt set is, too. I've got the mower, weedeater, blower, hedge trimmer, and pole saw - they all share the same batteries.