Hi Chris, Whenever the battery is greyed out, you don't have one and if it's black, you have a battery and usually a charger with you. At some point I had enough of the included batteries with low capacity and only bought the machines without them, but then bought 2 6 Ah batteries from Galaxus. I was amazed to realise that the 12 V devices with the powerful batteries not only run much longer, but also have more power and pulling power.