PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 5, 2022
Dimitri and Philip Coupe, both 17, are the owners of Solar Mow, among the state’s few all-electric lawn care services, and likely the only one charged by solar energy. Their 3-year-old enterprise is on the vanguard of a national trend to phase out noisy, polluting gasoline landscape equipment, in favor of battery models. The evolving story of Solar Mow is as old as the quest to earn some bucks in the summer and as fresh as how to save the planet, one lawn at a time.