140 HP Electric tractor, 5 hours work for a 20 minute charge.

[Barleycorn]

This sounds too good to be true?

Turkish king-size electric tractor ready for mass production

The development of a Turkish-made, king-size electric tractor has been completed, and the locally developed vehicle will be mass-produced as of June, the...

www.dailysabah.com

 

[shumungus]

Would need to perform well cause its not going to sell on looks.

 

[R J]

Looks like a case ih 956

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

WTF are they charging it from, overhead pylons?

140hp so, for ease, say 100kW motor. Runs for 5 hours so that's 500kWh. Assume 80% overall efficiency for ease so a 600kWh battery pack. Charging that in 20 minutes means a charge rate of 1800kWh! The fastest Tesla charger I've seen is 80kWh and that needs a good 3 Phase connection.

 

[daveydiesel1]

What price will it be. It be ideal for most livestock farmers driving between milkings and stopping for lunch

 

[Barleycorn]

Reading it again they were describing the garden size tractor as 140 HP, perhaps it was a typo and meant 14 HP? Those big tractors look a fair size though.

 

[bitwrx]

WTF are they charging it from, overhead pylons?

140hp so, for ease, say 100kW motor. Runs for 5 hours so that's 500kWh. Assume 80% overall efficiency for ease so a 600kWh battery pack. Charging that in 20 minutes means a charge rate of 1800kWh! The fastest Tesla charger I've seen is 80kWh and that needs a good 3 Phase connection.

It's very hard to look past the energy density of good ol'dinosaur juice.

 

[GeorgeK]

140hp is easily achievable with an electric motor. Note Chairperson Yol says it will run for "Up to" 5 hours so that would be the absolute maximum it will run for under perfect conditions, probably travelling at slow speed not pulling anything. Or to put it another way nothing close to that in normal use, probably under 1 hour if you're making it grunt

 

[James]

Would suit a diet feeder no fumes in cattle shed

 

[Deerefarmer]

How many little innocent Africans did it cost to make the battery pack

 

[bobk]

 

[bobk]

 

[bobk]

Skin and rice pudding

 

[Barleycorn]

Looks like something off Red Dwarf!

 

[snarling bee]

WTF are they charging it from, overhead pylons?

140hp so, for ease, say 100kW motor. Runs for 5 hours so that's 500kWh. Assume 80% overall efficiency for ease so a 600kWh battery pack. Charging that in 20 minutes means a charge rate of 1800kWh! The fastest Tesla charger I've seen is 80kWh and that needs a good 3 Phase connection.

There lies the problem with many farms. They might develop the machinery, and then it takes a week to charge up as the farm is single phase.

 

[Adeptandy]

Think the styling was done by Clarkson, Hammond & May, if anyone remembers the thing they made

 

[BrianV]

Looks a little worrying that they need to put stones in front of the wheels to stop it running away, not a great advert.

 

[john432]

That's a John Deere in drag

 

[Barleycorn]

I think the future will on the line of The Small Robot Company, little computerised tractors working 24 hours a day, just like Clives new lawnmower!

 

[bobk]

I think the future will on the line of The Small Robot Company, little computerised tractors working 24 hours a day, just like Clives new lawnmower!

I suspect we'll carry on as before