Know little of either tech, danger of electric is if everything is electric from heating our homes to running all transport and then the green lobby want no nuclear,gas or coal.generation then the whole pack of cards could collapse if we had a large high pressure system with a snow event, no wind and no solar, I'm not against electric power but the infrastructure and back up generation needs sorting first
Which manufacturer to launch the first electric tractor
- Thread starter Johnnyboxer
- Start date
- Location
- Co antrim
Could be kubota. Theyr a rich company and thier wantin a big piece of the pie and theyl know if they come up with a machine that drastically reduces running costs that ppl will buy it
Chinese already building them, as I think were an Indian company.
Both coal powered generators...
Both coal powered generators...
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
The giants you see in tractor pulling comps run on methanol I think. Plenty of power there.
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Tractor_dealer
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- Location
- West wales / mid wales
https://www.escortsgroup.com/agri-machinery/international/.
owned by kubota
wasn’t it on countyfile ?
owned by kubota
wasn’t it on countyfile ?
- Location
- North Norfolk
Good spec apart from the rubbish ground clearance, as with the JCB and https://electrictelehandler.co.uk/ althogh Faresin should be available with bigger wheels
- Location
- North Norfolk
The one on my video above was on Countryfile and Fully Charged
shelly reynolds
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Sh!t I hope not, if it's anything like there parts back up and service network we'll all be back to a horse and cart
icanshootwell
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- Location
- Ross-on-wye
Even with 40% dis, the asking price will be out of this world.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I don't think they will be that much more I mean they should save a stack of cash for not needing a transmission or anything really its all just batteries and electric generators.
I don't think the extra cost can be justified from the fuel and maintenance costs savings alone hence why I think there will need to be a grant scheme of some kind to make it affordable. Maybe a diesel engine scrappage scheme?
- Location
- S.E
Its the elephant in the room
Tommy
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- Location
- North East Wales
There’s 30 acres of solar panels next to one or our corn fields, do you think I could plough and sow our 10 acre with a big extension lead to an electric tractor?
- Location
- Co antrim
Ud needa watch u didnt drive over the cable or at least carry a set of strip connectors
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Will i be a badged tractor that first arrives on the scene or small electric driven driverless robots ?
fendtfiasco
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- Location
- Northern Ireland
Think i read somewhere the batteries for a 300hp tractor weighed 14 tons, at least it should grip. 
- Location
- South West
Umbilical slurry drivers would be streets ahead driving with a cable ad those guys been doing similar for years.
ollie989898
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Electric slurry pump would work if you have a 3 phase supply available.
I can see a battery powered tractor or loader being useful in a yard environment where you only need it a hour or two a day and it can charge the rest of the time.
I can see a battery powered tractor or loader being useful in a yard environment where you only need it a hour or two a day and it can charge the rest of the time.
- Location
- Le Veurde, Allier, France 03320
Not only the over consumption of electricity but also the high grade precious metals and components in these battery powered vehicles are finite, non recyclable and their extraction is probably worse than oil for environmental impact. All things that the eco brigade skirt around! At the end of the day all this green powered revolution is powered purely by money and greed the environment comes very low down the priority list!