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Kōrero: Wind and solar power

Solar-powered lawnmower

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Solar-powered lawnmower

No more back-breaking Saturdays pushing a recalcitrant lawnmower around the section for this fortunate gentleman. The world’s first solar-powered lawnmower was demonstrated in action on a Lower Hutt lawn in 1994.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1994/3494/21A-F

by Ray Pigney

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Veronika Meduna, Wind and solar power – Solar energy, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/4930/solar-powered-lawnmower (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Veronika Meduna, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.