Metabo

Benefits: Excellent quality, reliability and life, Metabo continuously innovates to take the lead in the world of cordless power tools.

Downsides: Less visibility in market compared to popular brands and not as much of range for selection of tools.

Overall: Metabo is a industry leader in innovation of cordless range and has been increasing its presence steadily. It has an extensive range of cordless tool in 18V and has a good presence in Europe, thou number of power tools have been launched in USA as well.

Metabo is on a mission to achieve goal of cordless job sites and have been successful in achieving it.

Notable Products: Known for its grinders, Its range of drilling and fastening tools are also competitive with other popular brands. Few unique cordless tools for fabrication and metal working industries, makes them stand out from other power tool companies.

Bosch

Benefits: Great performance and steadfastness.

Downsides: Bosch lacks behind its competitors in USA and have failed to launch products on time or have never been launched has launched in Europe.

Overall: Bosch has excellent tools but their range of cordless tools are not as competitive as other brands. They have made great releases in the past, but there are less reasons to buy into Bosch’s cordless range as of today.

Notable Products: Inductive battery charging system, select drills with anti-kickback protection, hybrid impact driver/wrench “FREAK” tools.

Dewalt

Benefits: Superior tools, wide range , easy to handle and reliability. Dewalt has expanded into the range of their 20V Max cordless power tools as well as their FlexVolt lineup. Along with this, they have continuously developing their 12V Xtreme Subcompact range

Downsides: Dewalt has a small range of tools for Automotive Industry. Their 12V range is average, but their seem to be working on it.

It is difficult to select their core competence products. For example,you can now select between 20V Max brushless, 20V Max Power Detect, FlexVolt 60V Max, and 20V Max FlexVolt advantage saws.

Overall:

Dewalt has enjoyed a reputation of strong brand value and has been know for introducing lot of innovative machines to the industry. They are not in race to catch up and have been innovating power tools and breaking barriers.

Dewalt users cannot go wrong their choice and have lot of strengthens with few weaknesses. Dewalt is one of the key players in Cordless industry and in fierce competition with other brands.

Notable Products: It’s exciting that Power Detect and FlexVolt Advantage lines are closing the gap between 20V Max and FlexVolt 60V Max platforms. Even so, FlexVolt still provides a power benefit that most other 18V/20V Max systems struggle to match.