The STIHL AP-System: battery technology for professionals

The STIHL AP-System is designed to meet the needs of professionals who depend on powerful and quiet cordless tools for their everyday tasks.

20.03.2024

A gardening and landscaping team with STIHL professional cordless power tools walking along a street.

Powerful cordless power tools
Advantages of the AP-System.
Power tool categories in the AP-System
The STIHL Power Duo
Accessories in the AP-System
Innovation for professionals

Even more power: the AP-System

A powerful choice: Advantages of the AP-System.

Our AP-System, consisting of various tool categories, is ideal for daily professional use in landscape, garden and tree maintenance and for work by council landscaping contractors. That’s because STIHL cordless technology for professionals offers impressive high performance, long battery life, and low-noise operation – and what’s more, the batteries are flexible in use.

Power tool categories in the AP-System

The AP-System from STIHL consists of a range of power tool categories for every area of application in landscape, garden and tree maintenance.

Discover the wide selection of cordless power tools in our product range today:

STIHL MSA 220 cordless chainsaw from the AP-System

CORDLESS CHAINSAWS

Cordless chainsaws are versatile and ideal for use in noise-sensitive areas. With our lightweight cordless chainsaws, you can perform felling, pruning, cutting to length, and even indoor sawing work with high cutting power.

All cordless chainsaws

STIHL FSA 86 cordless brushcutter from the AP-System

CORDLESS BRUSHCUTTERS

Cordless brushcutters in the AP-System offer impressive power and stamina. At the same time, you can also use them in locations where noise and emissions are particularly unwelcome, such as green-area maintenance in parks and residential areas.

All cordless brushcutters

STIHL HSA 94 cordless hedge trimmer from the AP-System

CORDLESS HEDGE TRIMMERS

The AP-System offers you a range of robust cordless hedge trimmers and long-reach hedge trimmers for professionals. With these tools you can quietly, precisely and easily take care of everything from trimming to pruning.

All cordless hedge trimmers

STIHL RMA 2 cordless lawn mower from the AP-System

CORDLESS LAWN MOWERS

The powerful cordless lawn mowers in the AP-System make professional lawn care quick and efficient for you, while also keeping noise levels and emissions low. Additional benefits include long battery life and short charging times.

All cordless lawn mowers

STIHL BGA 86 cordless blower from the AP-System

CORDLESS BLOWERS

AP-System cordless blowers for professionals are pleasantly quiet whilst also being very powerful, making them ideal for use in inner-city and noise-sensitive areas. They are hand-held, and offer flexible use in confined spaces, or can be conveniently hooked onto a harness for large areas.

All cordless blowers

STIHL HTA 86 cordless pole pruner from the AP-System

CORDLESS POLE PRUNERS

The AP-System also offers ideal solutions for professional tree maintenance. With the HTA 66, the HTA 86, and the HTA 135 you can choose between three quiet power tools for effective pruning or removal of branches.

All cordless pole pruners

STIHL KGA 770 cordless sweeping machines from the AP-System

CORDLESS SWEEPING MACHINES

With the cordless sweeping machine from the AP-System, you can clean large areas easily, effortlessly and thoroughly – both indoors and out. Dirt is also very efficiently removed from edges and corners in this process.

All cordless sweeping machines

A real STIHL power duo: the MSA 300 and the AP 500 S battery

Simply powerful: the MSA 220 T

A powerful cordless arborist saw for professional use, the MSA 220 T offers many advantages. The electronic operating system with unlocking button enables easy, convenient handling – with high cutting performance. In combination with the AP 300 S battery, the MSA 220 T can make up to 260 cuts in 29 minutes.

Gardeners and landscapers taking STIHL AP-System power tools and a backpack battery from their vehicle’s loading area.

Full flexibility: Accessories in the AP-System

With cordless accessories from the AP-System , you can make individual power tools even more high-performance and more flexible. The range includes, for example, powerful lithium-ion batteries in a range of capacities, comfort carrying systems, practical holsters, and backpack batteries for power tools with a socket.

To the accessories for the AP-System

Innovation for pros: the cordless AP System

Charge and energy management

With our innovative charge and energy management , you can rely on all batteries being fully charged overnight and your power tools being ready for use – either on a mobile or stationary basis. Our battery charging cabinet even enables up to 20 battery packs from the AP-System to be charged centrally overnight. The new bottTainer offers optimum conditions for your batteries, and protection against weather and theft while you’re on the road. It also provides you with a constant overview of all the batteries and their charge levels. All you need to connect the bottTainer is a standard 230V plug.

More information on charge and energy management

Battery life and charging times

The particularly powerful STIHL cordless tools in the AP-System feature very high endurance and power. Here, corresponding tables show the battery life for cordless power tools from the AP-System depending on the battery used, as well as the charging times for various STIHL batteries.

To battery life and charging times

Working in the rain

All cordless power tools in the STIHL AP-System have been designed for daily use, even in adverse weather conditions. With that in mind they are certified as splashproof; the effectiveness of this is also verified through demanding internal checks. The splashwater test is aligned with the IPX4 standard, among others.

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Summary: STIHL cordless AP-System

The STIHL AP-System has been designed with professionals and council landscaping contractors in mind.
The AP-System offers a comprehensive selection of power tools for garden, landscape and tree maintenance.
The AP-System features impressively high power, low noise, and extra-long battery life.
The STIHL AP-System utilises innovative lithium-ion batteries that offer flexible use.
The STIHL AP-System has an intelligent charge and energy management system, and comprehensive accessories.

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