“V28™ blows away expectations and just flat out delivers on Milwaukee’s brand promise of improving productivity for professional power tool users,” said Daniel Perry, president of Milwaukee Electric Tool.  “Our end user customers have been telling us for years that what they really want is corded power in a cordless tool, with longer run-times.  Now Milwaukee is able to give them what they’ve asked for.  After putting V28™ through the paces, we had long-time users of other brands of cordless power tools asking when and where they could purchase V28™...  The launch of V28 is a bold statement by Milwaukee that we intend to be leaders with the next generation of cordless power tools.”   V28 features include:

• A proprietary new Lithium- Ion battery platform patented and perfected for high current draw applications.  (Many, many, many patents)
• Dramatically increased power and up to twice the run time of traditional 18-volt tools. In fact, performance is better than many corded tools.
• A built-in fuel gauge on the battery pack informs how much run time is available.
• Consistent, fade-free power throughout the discharge cycle ensures the last usage is as powerful as the first.
• Milwaukee’s five-year warranty, the longest in the industry.
• An incredible two year warranty on the V28 battery.
• V28 “smart batteries” internally record the first date of product use.
• Internal logging of tool use patterns in the battery pack memory chip. This data can be retrieved by Milwaukee engineering to improve future cordless designs.
• Enough power to allow new categories of corded tools to go “unplugged,” like portable band saws. Power requirements had previously precluded such tools from being available in cordless versions.
• A steady flow of new V28 tools that will enable end users to switch from traditional corded tools to our V28 cordless line.

• Milwaukee’s new V28 circular saw was able to cut from 60-158% more OSB board than any leading 18-volt competitor’s saw.

• Milwaukee’s new V28 circular saw cut 43-45% faster than any competitive 18-volt saw when cutting 2” X 12” dimensional SPF lumber.

• Milwaukee’s V28 Sawzall reciprocating saw performed over twice as many cuts than any competitive 18V recip. saw when cutting 2” X 10” SPF lumber.

• Similar performance enhancements were demonstrated during testing of Milwaukee’s V28 hammer drills and impact wrenches vs. competitive 18V tools.

• Significantly, these performance increases have been achieved with batteries that weigh the same as, or less than, 18V batteries and are of equal size.