We got hit with the same storm system as Eric this past weekend. It was a good 10 inches of fairly heavy snow with drifts that went over a foot in some places. I have the equivalent of an eight car driveway and the Ego two stage snowblower was able to clear the driveway and piled up gunk at the end of the driveway from the snow plows before the batteries died. I did a good job clearing the snow and it had plenty of power, which was one of my concerns.
While I would have liked to of been able to clear some snow from the yard so the dogs actually had a place that they could walk without waiting the hour and a half or so for the batteries to charge, it wasn’t much of a hassle to wait and I didn’t end up smelling like exhaust when I came back into the house.
@JronmanI hear you about the speed of removing the snow with a single stage, but I’m getting older and the single stage I have been using is a real pain when trying to clear the packed snow plow gunk at the end of my driveway. It takes little more to maneuver the two stage, but it is well worth the trade-off as it makes removing the heavy stuff so much easier.