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Nearly one year ago, I posted about my desire for Festool to offer cordless dust extractor vacuums. Earlier today, a reader left a short comment that really made my morning. They simply said “And… here it is.”
After some digging, I came across a Festool Owner’s Group forum post, where someone shared some images and notes from a European tradeshow.
It seems that Festool is indeed coming out with new cordless dust extractor vacs.
From the images, it looks like there will be cordless versions of Festool’s Mini, Midi, and mobile vacuums.
Unfortunately, all of Festool’s new cordless dust vacs look to be cordless only. I had wished for hybrid battery and corded-powered vacs, but cordless-only is still very welcome.
In his FOG forum post, Hans Mertens noted that the CTC Sys vacuum – their cordless mobile vac – can only be powered by specific Festool 18V batteries. It looks to fit their more compact batteries, but not their larger and higher capacity ones.
The wheeled Midi (CTC Midi) and Mini (CTC Mini) vacuums look to accept Festool’s larger batteries.
All three options look to be dual-battery tools, meaning they’re effectively 36V vacuums that require two batteries to operate. A simultaneous dual-bay charger is also said to be on the way (TCL 6 DUO).
The cordless vacs were said to have a January 2022 ETA, at least in Europe.
At this time, there’s no indication as to if or when Festool plans to launch the same or similar products in the USA, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
