With the recent purchase of two companies widely recognized as innovators, outdoor power equipment leader MTD Products Inc. has strengthened its commitment to help professional landscapers, grounds care professionals, and lawn and garden care enthusiasts push the bounds of what they can accomplish

With increasingly efficient technology and demand driving introductions, major manufacturers like STIHL, Kohler and CORE Outdoor Power have begun manufacturing innovative environmentally friendly or "green" outdoor power equipment. Some manufacturers are making gasoline engines more fuel-efficient and offering propane-fueled versions, while others are creating battery-powered outdoor power equipment with comparable performance to gasoline models.

When 30-year-old entrepreneur Lincoln Jore was in college, he started looking for ways to build better power tools. What resulted was a new gasless motor technology so versatile that it's used in everything from hedge trimmers to wind turbines. His tech uses copper-etched conductors embedded into a multilayer circuit board stator, which, when coupled with permanent magnets, allows for high torque at extremely high efficiencies. Recently, he founded CORE Outdoor Power to apply this technology to outdoor power equipment, creating a line that is powerful, noiseless, and emission-free. Read more: What Drives CORE's Quiet Gasless Motors - Popular Mechanics Follow us: @PopMech on Twitter | popularmechanics on Facebook Visit us at PopularMechanics.com

CORE Outdoor Power introduces its new Power-Lok, a drive unit with interchangeable landscaping attachments. The Power-Lok system provides landscapers with innovative and adaptive products that are professional quality with the convenience of interchangeable attachments that can trim grass, cut hedges and blow leaves and debris.

Adding to its line of GasLess power equipment, CORE Outdoor Power expands its suite of products to address additional market needs in the outdoor power equipment industry

In the spring of 2012, Core Outdoor Power will debut a GasLess line trimmer, the first product from their line of GasLess outdoor power equipment. It comes equipped with CORE technology, a GasLess motor device capable of producing high torque rotary motion at high efficiencies and power densities

Core Outdoor Power Launches State-of-the-art Line of GasLess Outdoor Power Equipment Debuting at this year's GIE+Expo, the largest green industry and equipment conference, Core Outdoor Power introduces products that have the power and performance to compete with existing gas powered equipment.