This may seem stupid but I don’t understand why to extend the duration and therefore operation we don’t add additional batteries? You have the space though! Let me explain! You have the possibility of sticking them to the core at the back and it can even balance with the front module (weight distributed on the tracks) or create an intermediate module between the body and the module and we could even choose the autonomy of the battery according to the work (it is not difficult to make an intermediate male female module)! Or why not integrate it directly into the module? The core is a real assault tank and it is quite capable of having more battery than that! Thank you very much for the work you do, hoping that this can give you some ideas 
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Second battery option. Interesting.
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It’s been brought up before to allow for a 2nd battery “somewhere,” such as on the Tow Hitch, to get more work per trip to the Docking Station. I know it’d help the snowblower to have an additional battery pack.
I’m unable to find the original request here on the Forum, so I don’t know if Yarbo has captured it.
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But I’m not talking about a hitch, but about attaching it to the front or the back, or directly to the accessory! Honestly, I think an intermediate module would be best! Because it would be a little bigger than the camera module, and we could attach whatever we wanted to it! Or a module attached to the back that would make it swing! But what we’re forgetting is that the more weight there is, the more the machine will stay gripped to the ground, and with ice, it’s super effective!
Now let’s see if the people at Yarbo who read us will be interested or not at all in just creating a module with a simple battery and a load balancer Thank you all for the interest you’ve shown in my writings
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Wouldn’t that increase the charge time? Are we really gaining anything?
as someone who’s had numerous plans almost completed and chasing the storms, yeah it would be nice to have. Sure it would increase charge time, but for those with average this would help make a bigger impact.
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Imagine yourself in the middle of the snow to remove well personally I prefer that it works 4 hours or more and that it recharges after when it is finished rather than it returns every 1 or 2 hours because of the heavy snow and the big road! It’s the same thing for all the other jobs!
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I’d take a battery that didn’t hit its temp limits so fast.
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Thank you so much for the thoughtful suggestion! We truly appreciate ideas like this. The idea of adding a second battery has actually been considered before, but there’s currently no official plan for implementation.
That said, I’ll definitely share your input and enthusiasm with our product team for further consideration. Thanks again for your support and creativity!
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Now I’m curious, what’s your typical runtime with the snow blower. I know it will depend on type of snowfall. But what’s your gut say is average?
From memory…a long time ago in a snowstorm far away…
I wanna say somewhere in the 3000 sq.ft.-ish range going from 100% to 20% battery. I know it can do almost my whole driveway (128’ x 25’ or so), but it peters out as it’s doing an Area at the end (which widens a little). It also has to clear Pathways/Sidewalks to get to the driveway.
Lots of little turns in some of it, unfortunately, and maybe slope mode can help be more efficient and use the battery better, don’t know yet.
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I think it was around 1.5 hours of runtime on average if I recall correctly.
About how many inches would you say you average for that run time?
Update:
I have a timelapse video of Yarbo doing about 3" of powder (give or take – so REALLY EASY stuff) from about 8:08am to 9:58am starting at 100% charge and going back to recharge at 20%. It did my driveway but stopped just shy of the end, but also did two extra Areas next to the driveway, another 1200sq.ft. Sooooo…A little more than 4000sq.ft. in 1 hour 50 minutes before going off to charge? Well, it was easy-peasy snow, but, still…not bad.
Sorry, that’s the only useful timelapse I have of Yarbo running from a full charge from this past winter, so I can’t do a double-check for ya.
I do remember the rover going back to charge without having the front of my house fully cleared. The problem is while it’s charging the snow is still coming down, so what do you do then – do you send it out to do the “priority” things as the snow piles up elsewhere? Get a 2nd battery? A 2nd snowblower?
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Missed an option…Get a shorter driveway.
Thanks for checking the video archive. Appreciate the info.
Thanks Ken for the info, helpful as I have about 12K sq/ft to do so I am going to take the moral of the story as being, start blowing at 1" to keep up if we are going to get a lot of snow (in central WI so we can get a dumping of a foot or more from time to time).
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Something to watch out for. When snow blowing the skirt of your driveway near the street Yarbo does not disengage the auger when adjusting/rotating the chute so snow/ice can get directed into oncoming traffic, even if your snow direction is nowhere near there. I opened a ticket and sent them a video last winter. They said it shouldnt be doing that. I havent heard back. Hopefully this has been addressed. We had 3.5 feet of snow when it was delivered to me last winter. It struggled with that but I didnt expect it to be able to handle that anyway. I had to give it a try though 
. The key is to send it out often before it builds up. It still struggles with the apron after the plow goes by and dumps a few feet of ice and snow at the end of the driveway. Go Bills.
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What scares me is that I used the blower to blow the tall grass that I cut with the tractor before using my mammoth lube and well I was really disappointed with the autonomy at full speed of the air blower! ;-( I wonder how long it will take to do a 300m path because it is really to clear snow that I took it above all and for the edge cutter ;-(
Correct, @JNS, Yarbo is “supposed to” position the chute so it’s in the snow throw direction, not turn on the auger while the rover is turning and is still pointed INTO YOUR GARAGE, or, in your case, into traffic. I forgot about this one – surprised it’s not fixed.
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Same here
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