With electric tools the bare tools ( without batteries) are similar prices to petrol tools. The chainsaw was £194, whereas my petrol myhusqvarna chainsaw was about £185 a couple of years ago. The batteries are an initial big investment, but if you pick a good make they normally fit and work with all their tools, so it's a one off purchase, and you can then expand your tools and keep using the same batteries.

I went with Makita when I bought a bundle that included 2 batteries, charger, drill and impact driver. I've then expended my tools but used thr same batteries.

But for thr new chainsaw I've actually bought some third party compatible 6Ah batteries that were far cheaper than the real Makita ones. Will they play as long? No idea, but 1 Makita 5Ah battery is about £60. Whereas 2x 6Ah third party batteries were £54, so I thought I'd take a chance.

Some of the older battery powered tools were underpowered as they used either 10.8V or 18V batteries. What Makita and a couple of others are doing now is making tools that use 2x 18v batteries at once, so you have 36v power and it makes a huge difference. My brush cutter is easily as good as my older petrol one. But these tools have only really reached this point in thr last couple of years.