Ryobi’s $34.98 Drill Walks Off the ONE+ Platform

Home Depot lists a Ryobi 12V drill at $34.98, and the battery is sealed inside the handle. You charge it with a cable. You never buy a pack.

The same October 2026 aisle is also pushing an 18V storm kit that still has no price, and a 40V hedge trimmer kit that already sells for $249. One SKU walks away from Ryobi’s battery club. The other two exist to grow it.

The $34.98 Drill Leaves the Battery Club

Home Depot lists the 12V drill at $34.98 under model TVD12K. The listing calls it tool only because there is no slide-on pack to add. The cell is built in, and the box is sold with a charging cable.

That is a strange object from a brand that spent 30 years telling shoppers one battery would run the whole garage. Plug this drill in, wait, then drive screws until the internal pack is empty. When the cell fades, you do not click in a fresh one. You buy another drill.

Ryobi already splits its cordless line into USB Lithium, 18V ONE+, 40V, and 80V, and those packs do not cross. The TVD12K does not join any of them. It is cheaper than a spare 18V 2.0 Ah pack, which Ryobi still prices at $89 on its own site.

THE 12V DRILL ON PAPER

• Shelf price: $34.98 at Home Depot for model TVD12K.
• Weight: 2.2 pounds, with a front LED for dark corners.
• Speed: up to 525 RPM on a variable-speed trigger.
• Chuck: 3/8-inch keyless, so bits swap by hand.

A two-year warranty covers the unit, which is a year shorter than the usual 18V tool coverage. The cheap number is the point. It is an impulse drill for a drawer, not a first brick in a 300-tool wall.

Ryobi’s Storm Kit Is Still a Coming-Soon Page

Ryobi’s own product page marks the storm kit Coming Soon as model PCL1310K. There is still no price. The page sells the kit as a way to stay ready for storms, camping, and tailgating, and it repeats the ONE+ pitch in the same breath.

The RYOBI 18V ONE+ System has evolved for 30 years to offer over 300 innovative products, providing ultimate versatility for a wide range of tasks.

Ryobi, 18V ONE+ Storm Preparation Kit product page

That sentence is the kit’s real job. The box is a first 18V pack for a house that may not own a drill. Once the 2.0 Ah battery is in a closet, every later fan, saw, and inflator is a bare-tool sale.

WHAT IS IN THE STORM KIT

• Clamp fan: An 18V 4-inch fan that clips onto a shelf, a chair, or a work cart.
• Area light: A 400-lumen lamp Ryobi rates for up to 40 hours, with a head that pivots.
• Power source: An 18V brick for charging phones, listed alongside a Coming Soon Power Source and Charger, model PCG043.
• Battery and charger: An 18V 2.0 Ah pack plus a charger, which brings the count to five pieces.

Ryobi’s storm-prep shop already sells the 4-inch clamp fan as PCF02B for $24.35 and the LED area light as PCL662B for $39.97, both tool only. Anyone who owns ONE+ packs can buy those pieces one at a time. The kit is for people who do not.

Coverage on the bundle is three years. That is the standard 18V promise, not the five-year outdoor warranty. It is still a longer safety net than the sealed 12V drill gets, because the storm kit is meant to stay in the family.

The New 26-Inch Trimmer Sells for $249

The 40V HP Brushless 26-inch hedge trimmer is the one SKU that already looks like a finished product. Home Depot lists the kit, model RY40HPHG01K, at $249 with a 40V 2.0 Ah battery and charger. The bare tool, RY40HPHG01B, is $189.

Ryobi rolled the trimmer out with six other cordless outdoor machines on August 17, 2026, across 18V ONE+ and 40V. Launch copy puts a 26-inch bar and a 1.25-inch cut on the new head, with anti-jam blades, a rotating handle, dual-action steel, and a HEDGESWEEP comb that knocks clippings off as you go. Ryobi says the kit runs for more than 45 minutes on the included 2.0 Ah pack.

That kit undercuts Ryobi’s own shelf. Home Depot still sells the older 26-inch HP kit at $259, model RY40640, and that older unit is rated for up to 35 minutes on a 40V 2.0 Ah pack with a 1-inch cut. The new kit is $10 less, claims 10 more minutes on the same size pack, and opens the cut by a quarter inch.

The 40V line is a second church. Ryobi puts over 85 products on those packs, and a 40V battery will not run an 18V drill. A homeowner who buys RY40HPHG01K for fall hedges is not filling the same drawer as the person who buys PCL1310K for a blackout. They are starting a different stack of chargers.

Three Platforms, Three Different Customers

Read as a roundup, these are three new lime-green objects. Read as merchandising, they are three doors into three different spends.

THE THREE OCTOBER LISTINGS

The drill customer is done at the register. The storm-kit customer leaves with an 18V pack that unlocks over 300 ONE+ products. The hedge customer leaves with a 40V pack that unlocks over 85 outdoor tools. Ryobi wins twice if those last two people come back for bare tools. It wins once, and small, if the $34.98 drill never needs a friend.

Home Depot still sells a compact 18V ONE+ HP drill kit, model PSBDD02K, at $99 with a 2.0 Ah HIGH PERFORMANCE pack and a charger. That kit is the old conversion path: pay more, join ONE+, keep buying. The TVD12K is the path that does not convert.

What the Sealed 12V Drill Can Do

At 525 RPM with a 3/8-inch chuck, this is a hang-the-shelf tool, not a mixing-paddle tool. It will drive cabinet screws, open pilot holes in pine, and live in a kitchen drawer where a full 18V drill feels silly. The 2.2-pound body is the feature people will notice first, because it is closer to a fat screwdriver than to a jobsite driver.

The limit is the sealed cell. You cannot park a second pack on a charger and keep going through a long IKEA session. You cannot loan the drill a battery from the circular saw. If the pack dies on a Sunday night, the work stops until the cable has done its job.

That is also why the two-year warranty matters more here than it does on ONE+. A failed 18V tool is often a failed motor, and the pack lives on. A failed TVD12K is the whole product. Ryobi is pricing that risk at $34.98 and daring shoppers not to care.

A 6.0 Ah Pack Stretches Runtime to 168 Minutes

The hedge trimmer plays the opposite game. Ryobi’s launch notes put runtime at more than 45 minutes on the 2.0 Ah pack in the $249 kit. The same notes put the top claim at 168 minutes on a 6.0 Ah pack, which is sold separately. The extra pack is how a 45-minute tool becomes an afternoon on a long privet row.

THE 40V RUNTIME CLAIMS

• 2.0 Ah pack: More than 45 minutes, the figure tied to the $249 kit.
• 6.0 Ah pack: 168 minutes, the figure for owners who buy a larger battery later.
• Tool coverage: Five years on the trimmer, three years on the battery.

Owners already treat 40V that way. A hedge trimmer that fades mid-row is not a broken tool in that world. It is a reminder to own two packs and a fast charger. The sealed 12V drill cannot be rescued by that habit. The storm kit is built on it, because every 4.0 Ah or 6.0 Ah ONE+ pack already on a shelf will run the fan and the light longer than the 2.0 Ah unit in the box.

Ryobi calls the new 26-inch unit the industry’s most powerful hedge trimmer in its launch copy. That is a marketing line, not a lab ranking. What the listing actually changes is the cut (1.25 inches, not 1 inch) and the kit price ($249, not $259), with anti-jam blades as the feature meant to keep the bar moving through thick growth.

Home Depot Remains the Only U.S. Door

Launch notes for the 40V trimmer say the tool-only and kit versions will be sold only at Home Depot stores and HomeDepot.com. That is the same exclusive aisle that carries ONE+ in the United States. Ryobi.com can teaser the storm kit as Coming Soon, but the cash register that matters is still orange.

The split is useful for the store. A $34.98 sealed drill is a cart-add next to picture hooks. A $249 40V kit is a fall outdoor ticket. An unpriced storm kit is a hurricane-season endcap waiting on a tag. None of those shoppers has to want the same thing.

The drill is already on a Home Depot product page. The 40V kit is already priced at $249, with the bare tool at $189. The storm kit is the one still waiting on a number, and on Ryobi’s site it is still Coming Soon.