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160 horsepower = 120 kw * 6 hours = 720 kw-hours + spare capacity for transporting the tractor. The battery must be at least 1,000 kWh, and it costs more than $100,000 - and where is there any economic feasibility in this tractor? Who will guarantee that the battery will serve at least 2 seasons and not have to buy a new one?
My take on this topic is that company's like this (especially small startups) should focus on developing small tractors (for small farmers) that run a few hours a day and preform light duty tasks like pulling, mowing, transporting or short sessions of field work etc. Going into a market for industrial type field work (very energy intensive) is to my eyes a complete nonsense. And there is millions of small very inefficient tractors that need replacing trough EU. If they could offer a decently priced small electric tractor (equivalent HP ranging from 50-80) I bet it would be a hit. But of-course the profit margin on each machine would have to be way lower and in today's market profit margin is all that counts 🤑.
Judging by most of the comments it is amazing that farmers are not in favour of change that will reduce the impact of climate change, which is already here and getting more obvious as the years roll by. Amazing really because climate change is impacting farming more than any other industry I would imagine. Weird really weird.
Farmer you heard that for double of what you paid for a combustion tractors you would have maybe 6 hours of work then plug for 18 hours so you get back to work your crops and weather would wait I pinky promised I swear,,,
6 hours ploughing... not great but not terrible.. this would be great for second tractor in farm who is dealing with smaller jobs like raking, transport, work with frontloader.. stuff that needs high power for short bursts but most of the time runs light on power demand so the battery capacity wouldn't be such a big problem for tractor.
I'm farmer and in a season our tractor running 24 hour with 2 drivers running it day and night so battery is good but it lacks the ability to to work over time
Come on guys, imagine that u have a similar tractor middle off harvesting season and swapping 3 4 times batterys a day and than all the time checking how much power left... to much thing
Just a crack pipe dream. For one thing, notice they cleverly put plow shares in a vertical line to reduce drag. The horizontal path that the machine plows is half of a diesel plow. So it takes more than twice the time to plow a field than the diesel plow. And if the farmer has a field 25 miles away from the charger, how will he get it charged? A diesel tractor can just be fueled by a mobile fuel truck. You can bet this guy is getting a government grant from your tax dollars to "develop" this. And all down the toilet.
how many hours of work, how many hours to charge the battery??, the electricity to charge the battery? where does it get it from??, from a generator that works with pedals??, I have from a generator that generates electricity that is made by engines that work with diesel??, and they still want to palm off battery-powered tractors, battery-powered cars, buses to the gullible, but why don't you use synthetic fuel, I managed to make endothermic engines pollute less??, instead of this big bullshit about batteries??, and the day that the batteries explode in their ass you'll see how funny,
The heavier the machine is and the more high steady load the usecase is, the less sense it makes to make something battery electric. Overhead wires are something else and hybrid vehicles when the use is very dynamic. But on a tractor there is nothing gained by regenerative braking and at the high load a combustion engine will easily exceed 40% efficiency.
This will be the future. Battery technology is advancing rapidly. Without a driver (I'm that option will be available one day - as with cars) they will be able to work around the clock and link up to a charger themselves.
Great stuff! Keep up the good work. For work such as loading silage wagons and feeding stock I'm sure your next tractor will be able to work all day without charging. Electric is the future!
This project is set up for failure. The tractor's high purchase cost restricts its market to large agricultural operations and contractors only. Even if it could operate for 6-8 hours (which I'm skeptical about) it would need to be charged at least once daily, potentially even twice, totaling up to four hours of downtime daily. This necessitates having multiple tractors on standby for continuous operation, an expense that potential customers are unlikely to justify.
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This doesn't even seem half bad, but the two hour charging is a dealbreaker in agriculture. You have work peaks where the tractor has to run the whole day. They need a way to switch the battery fast (10-20 minutes max).
