Best Battery-Powered Snow Blowers of 2023

Tired of shoveling snow off your driveway and sidewalk? Consider purchasing a battery-powered snow blower.

Consumer Reports has been testing battery-powered snow blowers for more than six years. Over that time period these tools, which are sometimes called cordless or cordless electric snow blowers (or snow throwers), have been improving by leaps and bounds.

“Battery snow blowers are really nipping at the heels of comparably sized gas models, and they offer advantages that gas snow blowers can’t match,” says Dave Trezza, who oversees CR’s snow blower tests.

Chief among them is that cordless snow blowers need neither gasoline nor oil, not to mention engine maintenance. They also start instantly witha7003336282 the push of a button and tend to run much quieter than gas models. They’re lighter and easier to handle, too.