Greenworks 24V Drill and Impact Driver: Two Tools Worth a Second Look Before Buying

Introduction

Greenworks is a familiar name in outdoor power equipment, with a large installed base of battery platforms for mowers, trimmers, and similar tools. The company has now moved into cordless power tools like drills and impact drivers, and that alone makes them worth examining: if you already own Greenworks batteries, a compatible drill or impact driver keeps everything on one platform.

The honest question is whether these tools hold up. After running both through basic drilling and fastening tests in softwood, the picture is mixed at best. There are genuine platform advantages, but the build quality and pricing leave a lot to be desired.

What You Get in the Kit

The tools arrive as a single kit: the drill, the impact driver, two 24V battery packs, and one very small battery charger. The batteries are 2Ah units, so do not expect long runtime between charges. The charger is compact enough to lose easily, which is worth keeping in mind.

The biggest upside is the battery ecosystem. If you are already on the Greenworks outdoor power equipment platform, you can swap your existing batteries into the drill and impact driver and keep everything on one battery standard instead of juggling multiple brands and chargers. For a homeowner trying to stay in one ecosystem, that is a real convenience.

Greenworks 24V Drill

The drill has an 18-position clutch plus a dedicated drill mode, an analog high and low speed switch, and a variable speed trigger. On paper, that is a standard feature set for a consumer cordless drill.

In testing, it handled a 3/8-inch bit through a 2x8 pine board without trouble on both speeds. Things got less convincing with a brand-new one-inch spade bit: the drill stalled on high speed, needed to be dropped to low speed for more torque, and only barely pushed through material that a stronger drill should handle easily. The chuck uses thin metal on top with mostly plastic construction throughout, and the tool feels light and cheap in the hand rather than compact.

The verdict here is blunt: the power is simply not good, and the overall design feels dated and bargain-bin. Homeowners and DIY users doing light tasks will find it usable, but anyone expecting modern performance will be disappointed.

Greenworks 24V Impact Driver

The impact driver is simpler: no mode selection, just a variable speed trigger. It does feel as though it has an automatic mode of sorts, delivering more power when the load demands it and scaling back when it does not, which helps conserve battery life.

Driving a standard star-head screw through pine without a pilot hole worked, though the bit was annoying to seat and remove in the quick-connect chuck. Once the connection was worked in a little, it behaved better. Straight driving with the bit alone went fine.

Beyond that, it is hard to distinguish this driver from the many generic brushless impact drivers available online at lower prices. There is no bit holder and, as far as we could tell, no belt clip included. The chuck feels like something from a very low-budget driver. It works, but nothing about it feels special.

Should You Buy Them?

Greenworks deserves credit for expanding its platform so existing battery owners get more uses from their investment. But the execution here does not meet the current bar. The impact driver feels like a generic brushless tool, the drill is plasticky and underpowered, and the pricing is high for what you actually get. New drills and impacts on the market today need to compete with the second-generation tools from the major brands, and these do not.

If you are a homeowner or DIY user already invested in Greenworks batteries and you only need light-duty tools, these are serviceable. For everyone else, cheaper and better-built options are easy to find online, and sticking with Greenworks for its outdoor power equipment remains the safer call.

Conclusion

The Greenworks 24V drill and impact driver make sense in exactly one scenario: you already own Greenworks batteries and want light-duty tools on the same platform. Outside of that, the weak power, cheap build quality, and high pricing make them hard to recommend over the many stronger alternatives on the market.