I’ve become quite a Ryobi fanboy after several years with many of their 18V and 40V battery-powered tools. They always have quite enough power to do the job, and are exceptionally easy to maintain. I had one of my batteries go bad once and Home Depot simply swapped it out for a new one.

I see this law as a nudge in that direction, and I think that is generally viable as these devices are well into mainstream adoption.

I agree with the article that the generator point is mostly scaremongering. Having survived a collective month worth of days without power in northwest winters without a generator I’m skeptical of the average Californian’s need for one. I’m certain there are good use cases for them and as the article and comments here are clear: they aren’t being taken away. In fact, they are commonplace, and likely to be hoarded by people who won’t use them for years at a time, then wonder how to plug them into their house when they need to use them lol. Commercial backup power generation aren't considered SORES and aren’t even that dirty since they need to be efficient.

I can’t help but hear faint echos of outage about seatbelt mandates in these diatribes.