Look an a electric tractor actually makes a ton of sense. Even now the largest, heaviest duty vehicles are already electric.
But this write up relies on far too many hypotheticals, the number one being, how do you get the power from wherever it is, to the vehicles, while running in what amounts to continuous operation. For harvest and planting, a farm might be running it’s combines or tractors continuously for weeks on end. And those equipment often service multiple farms. Swappable batteries means you then have to have more equipment to shuttle batteries, and to swap them. If they are big enough to keep a tractor pulling a drill for 12 hours, they’re going to need heavy equipment to swap them.
On a small acreage, where it’s not in continuous operation, it would make total sense. But it sounds like a logistical nightmare for a combine.
Look an a electric tractor actually makes a ton of sense. Even now the largest, heaviest duty vehicles are already electric.
But this write up relies on far too many hypotheticals, the number one being, how do you get the power from wherever it is, to the vehicles, while running in what amounts to continuous operation. For harvest and planting, a farm might be running it’s combines or tractors continuously for weeks on end. And those equipment often service multiple farms. Swappable batteries means you then have to have more equipment to shuttle batteries, and to swap them. If they are big enough to keep a tractor pulling a drill for 12 hours, they’re going to need heavy equipment to swap them.
On a small acreage, where it’s not in continuous operation, it would make total sense. But it sounds like a logistical nightmare for a combine.