Help needed to persuade my trail gang to use electric chainsaws

I suppose one option is to get one of your own and try it out on a few trail projects so people see how it works. Personally only one of our two gas chainsaws run. I'm told that's all you'll ever have running at one time regardless of how many you own. Assuming the battery ones have enough power it sounds like the limited time on a battery would be more than enough for the kind of use you need.

I need an excuse to get a battery powered one but I mostly use my plug-in electric one. No mixing gas, dealing with a gummed-up carb, or running it dry to store. But I also figure the longer I can wait to buy one the better battery ones will be.

"they said normal people should get 15 to 16 years, I would probably get 7 or 8"

There are two ways to take this hahaha. Either they think you work really hard or they think you are tearing stuff up!

Another benefit of a gas saw is it doesn't head to the dump when it finally gives out. A quick rebuild and your back in business. If it's just firewood and you take good care maybe you will never need a new one. My dad has cut all his firewood with the same Stihl 028 since I've been alive.

I am not sure if E-saws get rebuilt? Seems to me it would be easy to do (although probably more expensive) but I haven't heard of it yet.

Like most everyone here that has both, I use the electric saw for small jobs, quick limbing jobs, clearing a tree that fell across the driveway.  I get out the Stihl if I am cutting firewood.  Electric saws simply can't do the same work a gas powered saw can do.  

One thing I haven't seen mentioned, although it has been kind of alluded to.  I find my electric saw much more dangerous because it isn't a loud, noisy, "scary" piece of machinery.  It makes a quiet little whirring noise that makes it very easy to forget that you are using a piece of equipment that can easily remove a limb (from you as well as a tree).  I think people that haven't tried both may downplay how important this is.  I don't even know how to explain it well.  I just find it very easy to forget the thing in my hand is a chainsaw, not a toy, when using an electric saw.