Enviro Views Takes the Noise Out of Landscaping

By Ryan Kwon, Communications Manager, CACM

As 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 gas-powered 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.

According to Yale University, the United States alone annually uses around 600 million gallons of gas for lawn mowing, estimating about two gallons of gas for every man, woman, and child or five gallons per household.

Some of you might ask, “Transitioning to zero-emission is great and all, but what does that have to do with mitigating the earth shattering noise HOAs are complaining about?” I’m glad you asked. The main difference in sound between gas-powered and electric-powered equipment is frequency. With the gas-powered equipment, you’ll notice more of a low frequency, the rumble, bass, and air-puncturing sound, emitting from the equipment. On the electric-powered side, you’ll hear more of a high frequency, which holds virtually none of the annoying qualities that its counterpart does and functions much more quietly.

After over a year of transitioning to a zero-emissions service, Enviro Views is now working on releasing a new product called the “Zero-Emissions Division.”

Zero-Emissions Division

This new product has been in development since the start of their transition and has seen several stages of improvements:

- It first started out as an enclosed trailer that held all the essential electric-powered landscaping tools (lawn mower, line and hedge trimmer, leaf blower).

- It later evolved into a trailer with the functionality of both a charging and storage unit in its second revision.

- In its third and current revision, it has become more compacted, practical, and efficient in its charging and storage space.

Enviro Views is currently working on its fourth revision of its new product which will have a completely new design and be even more compact and efficient than the last.

Armando Vega is the CEO of Enviro Views and has more than 25 years of experience as a landscaping contractor. Enviro Views is located in Richmond, but the company also provides service in the greater Bay Area from San Francisco to Brentwood, Oakland, and Vallejo.

Ryan Kwon, Communications Manager, CACM