Well, I don`t know if they are the first selling them, but I got a TRC email today showing the new 15 and 21 iBrids for sale. As usual, starting out only in kit form with pads and polishes (4 foam pads, 4 wool pads, and coarse and fine compounds). When these were introduced at SEMA it was stated that they use composite gears to make the machine lighter (I guess to offset the battery weight) with the collateral effect of making the machine quieter.

The prices are appropriately jaw-dropping ($735 for the 15 and $760 for the 21) but I guess when they come out with the machine-only (no pads and polish) it will be $100 or something less, so down closer to the ballpark of the Flex cordless machines, if not quite in the ballpark.