ENVIRO VIEWS TAKES THE NOISE OUT OF LANDSCAPING By Ryan Kwon, Communications Manager, CACM
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s technology advances, machinery that wasn’t thought to be possible charged its way into modern-day reality. In October 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law that would outlaw the sales of gas-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and chain saws as early as 2024, but one landscaping business is already one step ahead, Enviro Views, Inc. Enviro Views is a landscaping business with over 50 years of collective maintenance experience. What sets this landscaping business apart from the others lies within its equipment. Instead of running on gas, all pieces of their equipment run fully on electricity. During the pandemic, Armando Vega, CEO of Enviro Views, would come home during lunchtime to see his wife who worked from home as a realtor and his kids who were attending classes virtually, but every one of his visits were greeted with the roaring sound of a leaf blower from outside of his closed window. He then gained the perspective of this is how him and his team sounded to his clients and realized it was time for a change. Vega researched further into the sound issue and confirmed from various property managers that the number one complaint from the Bay Area HOA communities is how loud the leaf blowers are. This newfound knowledge ultimately led him to launch Enviro Views as a zero-emission service. Within the landscaping business, there’s a lingering stigma of electric-powered equipment being weaker than gaspowered equipment, so there was some hesitation within Vega’s team at the start of his business’s conversion to zero-emission equipment. But after using the new equipment and realizing the miniscule to non-existent power gap between the electric-powered and gas-powered equipment, his team adapted quickly to the transition and became very efficient in managing the battery life of the new equipment throughout the day.
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