Exclusive: Silent plowing with a 160 hp fully electric tractor 

To all you doubters being negative, this is a PROTOTYPE made by a very small team in a few years. What they've managed to achieve is very impressive.

Nice thought, but most farmers that run a 160 hp tractor, need 16 hours with no stopping...

This model will plough 1.5 hrs in sand, I wonder what it will do when it's in a heavy clay soil. ?

Well done! Not many Future (thinking) Farmers commenting tho!

The projected run time is beaten by tractors from the 60s, and a decent amount of those tractors are still running today.

Makes the batteries interchangable and awaay we go!

Why are you replowing an already prep'd field ?? Let's see this breaking new ground ...

Thank you for making the video. I will get my fendt e107 in September. Hope to get this tractor in the future as well

I would like to operate this tractor, loads of tea breaks. Nice!!!

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!

Awesome! If you want farmers to like it make it durable, easy to repair and if the software is open source it would be fantastic! Open source is the future

Just imagine how much extra your food will cost because someone will have to pay for it !

We have ran tractors up to 48 hrs with only stopping for ten minutes for fuel and check oil. You've got a long way too go to become practical. Other farmers I know have ran multiple shifts for over 10 days to get the work done. This won't work very well

Great idea but in my eyes technology isnt quite there yet. You'd have to own 2 of these tractors in order to keep working whilst one of them is on charge. Then their is the travelling to and from the field.....swapping implements😅 farmers are struggling for time as it is..... I know i spent 20 years in the industry.

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The counterweight can be batteries too. This is interesting.

Minneapolis moline had a fuel cell tractor in the 50’s if I recall correctly its fuel cell used propane the tractor was a beast with power here in the states during planting season minutes in the field can almost make or break a season six hours wouldn’t cut it

Fascinating.. surely the future is here.. we have very small land and solar,wind and hydro electric production so long for TOTALelectic equipment..😊

It would be useful to have an aframe towbar close by in case the battery runs out of power and the tractor needs to be towed back to the farm using another tractor.

Keep the EVs on the Golf Corse and on the RC racing track 🙂

Six hours .... Took me an hour each way to get to the last 18 hrs of ploughing i did. 😂

If you plough sand, this toy is for you.

And where are you going to charge it out in the middle of a field, and how long is it going to sit idle while it charges?

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.

Looks extremely promising. I wouldn't mind a break every 6 hours. The tech is coming and when it does, it will be a game changer.

Cheaper to build a pylon in each field and run a mains, electricity cable direct to tractor.

In Australia a trucking company realised that they had forklift trucks and they could add or remove a large battery from a lorry in a few minutes just like they could a pallet.. Because they already had the forklift it was dead easy. Large farms tend to have some sort of forklift so having two large batteries and swapping one out with fully charged one would not be an absurd idea. Then that could charge and repeat so with two batteries for one appliance a farmer could work 18hours. I realise in farming some days it is all hands on deck. I realise that farmers could have a lot of money tied up in batteries. If those swap in and out batteries were a standard in the construction industry that could help keep the costs down by sharing the use. If you search on RU-vid for "This GIANT Electric Semi Can Swap Out Its Batteries!" you can see the video for yourself.

6 hours claimed which means 2 if you're lucky judging by EVs performance.

It is a start but nope, what will the battery lifespan be in working hours , and only 6 hours without battery degrading accounted for,then 2 hours charging time plus weather events in between ? the last factor is where will the electricity be generated from if hundreds of thousands oftrucks,tractors and ships all need electricity

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 🤑.

They say dinosaurs are extinct, but I think they are still alive among today's farmers

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Will it come with a new pair of shoes so when the battery takes a shit out in the field you can walk home

Is that six real working hours or............. 6 hours promised by the manufacturer

Its a costly toy, the tractor needs over 80% of its nominal power on heavy duty. 3 hours of hard-plowing would need a battery of at least 300kwh (150.000 Euro??). Thats total ridiculous, refueling in comparison to a diesel takes over 200 times longer and so on, electrical energy is more expensive and the lifeime of the battery is much lower than the lifetime of a diesel engine .....insane misallocation of money....

You should consider to use the Tatra Backbone Chassis.Go to Dvorak in Tabor Czech Republic..he has huge experience in building this sort of tractor..

6 hours. Max. Theoretically. I drive 1/2 hour to the paddock, work for 20 hours, there’s no power there, then 1/2 hour back. A tractor will do many thousands of hours. How many years does that battery last? More expensive to buy? Tractors are already insanely expensive. Cheaper to run? How about when power prices increase? And what happens when they get covered in cow dung and mud, going through wet bogs, all good?

Well, this shows exactly why going electric with agriculture is going to be a hell of a job. 160hp (120kW) is fairly small by agricultural machinery standards - a small combine starts at 200kW (270hp), large ones run to 500kW and over. If this was able to work at the full 160hp for 1.5hrs it would need a 180kWh battery - that is going to be 680kg of cells even if you thrash it from 100% to zero which isn't going to be a good idea for battery lifetime so closer to 1000kg plus thermal management, balancer electronics, protective casework etc. For the 6hr version we are looking at 720kWh so more like 4 tonnes of cells. Do the sums for a mid-sized combine and consider how these things are going to get charged in all the fields in the World where they are going to be needed.

Whats the diference between fully electric and electric?

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

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).

People generally don't like change but they are powerless at stopping it. Change has always happened and will continue. If you don't like it tough.

Make it articulated so it can cultivate row crops easy

Remove able battery packs and solar on the farm would make sense - it also depends on how many acres are being farmed - maintenance cost will lower with electric . Inevitably when battery tech becomes cheaper and better.

I know they what us to buy 4-6 of them for the farm work , when the battery runs down time to switch to a other tractor

Nobody mentions, fuel the expected expensive commodity

Where is the cobalt in your batteries from? Your rare metals? Children suffer and die for this,

U cant compare that electric toy with a fendt tractor for sure.

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?

I think you’re still a long way from a practical prototype that farmers would buy.

Jestem ciekaw jaki jest system przekladni czy CVT coś Ala dyna shift lub vario???

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.

Made From a JCB Fast track ,But JCB are Not Going EV They are Going Hydrogen as they Stated they Looked at EV for There Machines and Said The Battery would Be Too Heavy and Limit Working Time etc. There is No Point Messing around With Trying to Make Everything in to an EV at Silly Prices,Just Stop People Flying around on Aircraft all over the World and The Savings Made on all the Jet Fuel Can Be used in Farming.

they need like batteries that attach on thr front weight vracket that can be charging while your running like a dewalt drill so 1 tractor w 2 battereis

If petrol will finish tomorrow In one month we're 99% dead

Nobody wants to sit on a cancer causing machine for hours,excavator drivers are refusing to operate battery ones because of this .

Like trying to market a Stanley Steamer against the Model T.

Looks great, will you extend the battery so it doesn't need the weights?

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.

Is that built off a JCB? There's no reason to reinvent everything at 1st. Run and charge time will be big points to cover

Do you have any numbers on power usage vs diesel consumption? my RAW numbers is about 3x usage over diesel meaning 10l/hr equals 30kw/hr.

dayum ,after 2 hours i go charge 18 hours😂😂😂

How far is the nearest charge point on most farms? Or do they drag a cable to the field??

JCB might do a hydrogen version. Battery technology needs a revolution to keep same working time, similar price & speedy charge or quick battery change. PTO removal replaced by high power delivery to motor driven implements that used PTO power trains

They should be working on battery technology before anything... I prefer the sound of the Fendt

It's great that people are prototyping these applications. Once the machine exists, let's put them in real world trials and get legitimate data on which are better.

Charge two hours plow 1.5 hours. Only use it in ground that's broke up good with no weeds. You did a couple acres and it's already screaming charge me. It's cheaper to run but you need 8 to do the same acres as one diesel tractor. Maybe some day but not in 2026.

Why the fuck do farmers plough dead ground?

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

It would be even better environmentally if you stopped ploughing altogether.

While using battery power of that machine why can’t add charger to keep battery up while working long hours but got to becareful of what size battery are and charger to feed battery?

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,,,

No one plows because of climate !

the battery technology need to improve if it can't handle the life cycle of the tractor it'll be a ruin to own you save the diesel and part of maintenance but if the battery need to be changed or the residual value of the tractor is null as EV are starting to show it doesn't make a difference and what about future electricity prices? the goal of 6h work 2h charge and 6 more work hours is in short asking for a 14h day to get just get 12h of work, road time counted out 8h00-22h00 plus road time, anyone would fit 12h day within 8h00and 20h00 with a driver switch at noon or eating behind the wheel. repeating 8h00-20h00 is sustainable over a period of time 8h-22h is not. having the tractor sit 2 hours in the middle of the day is a big problem for field work not so much in cattle farms.

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.

Nifty gadget. Completely useless and financially absurd on mass. Absurd.

Don't think so. No thanks. Old school works.

dreamers 😞

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Why would you show it plowing, the worst job. For moving bauer rainstar and hosespools or maybe fertilizer this could work i geuss.

Better add a cord to it (not a new idea either)

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Field jobs is hard,need more power,i think diesel engines best for farming. There is no need to look for excitemen.

Yeah. NO!

There is absolutely no way this would have been of any use even on a 6 hour shift because it would not be recharged in time for the next day........lol that is if your local farm power supply was capable, without browning out the district. Just imagine how many you would need on our 20,000 acre farm,where at peak times we are operating 24 hour days playing, harrowing reworking for weed kill spraying the list goes on! Not to mention thenpower station needed that would have to be coal, Gas or nuclear because the sun doesn't shine at night nor the wind blow 24 hours. About time the Woke woke up.

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Maybe in 5 yrs but there not even close to being a viable alternative.

This is the truth if this ever becomes the only option for tractors im selling off my farm here in Indiana , Looks like throwing good money after bad just my opinion and way to much down time !

Very sad that they are complying with this net zero bollocks

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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Terrible idea, doomed to failure, guaranteed. This is quite pathetic...virtuous nonsense.

😂😂😂😂 6 hours then you add another battery 🤣 What a joke. No wonder farmers are dumping manure in the streets

where is the fun of hearing the tractor engine

HAHAHA!

Have nothing against technology but, this is NOT going to be cheaper to run/operate plus the fact that, electronics biggest enemies is moisture and dust/dirt. Components will not last long and then you have the issue that no country has the infrastructure to handle all electric vehicles. Now, add the fact that for farming, majority of farming is 16hrs to 24hrs pending on conditions, 6hrs won't cut it period, wasting time because you have to cut short field work to charge the battery, not efficient at all, sorry, this won't work well. Perhaps on small farms but not large farms. Also, who's paying for the charging station which is also a specialized unit needed to recharge the battery????

It is a joke!

Brilliant! If i ever buy a new tractor of course it will be battery powered. Because its better. In every way. Please bring real power to the farmers - like Tesla has done to the personal car

This in soft land surface is Child game the 90 % of wircks arebin world in hard strong land surface,,,,, PS End its old nonbefectiwe expensiwe way,,mutcjh more better is hho baštine end the best is NEODIUM engine ,,,easy simply end mozst cheep,,,of ,,,prezent technoligy

U r wasting your time.