EV tractor sales

[sourgum]

In the utility 40 hp class selectrac started general market sales this year of a compact electric tractor.
They sold 75 units in first 6 months of production this year . A farmer on ewe tube demo one, he has loader and
takes two 900 -1000 lb hay bales every morning out to the cow pasture with this tractor. One bale per trip.
He says no worries about starting a combustion engine on cold morning ,no dead battery. no fuel gelling..no purchase diesel
fuel . Reliable work horse. Says the battery drops 1 % after morning chores finished .
Are these going to take over th3 40 horse utility tractor market. Did we see the start of the switch to the compact electric tractor in 2023 ?

 

[J Hamilton]

In the utility 40 hp class selectrac started general market sales this year of a compact electric tractor.
They sold 75 units in first 6 months of production this year . A farmer on ewe tube demo one, he has loader and
takes two 900 -1000 lb hay bales every morning out to the cow pasture with this tractor. One bale per trip.
He says no worries about starting a combustion engine on cold morning ,no dead battery. no fuel gelling..no purchase diesel
fuel . Reliable work horse. Says the battery drops 1 % after morning chores finished .
Are these going to take over th3 40 horse utility tractor market. Did we see the start of the switch to the compact electric tractor in 2023 ?

I haven't seen those yet. But I have seen Case has a 580EV backhoe on the market

 

[Factotum]

Did we see the start of the switch to the compact electric tractor in 2023 ?

If the buy in and reliability of the electric tractor is realistic, it probably is.

 

[rrlund]

The whole episode of Ag Day this morning was about new technology. They showed a few electric utilities, including one by New Holland. That one they said would do field work. Seems like they said 72 horse power. They said up to four hours of heavy field work or eight hours of lighter loader work. I'd like to try one.

 

[wp6529]

I've said it before - Electric forklifts have worked very well for many decades and there is no reason to think that electric tractors won't work equally well when properly designed and paired with the right workload. I'm sure the BTOs will have the proper environment for them to get a foothold and prove what they can do as well as weed out the poorly designed ones.

 

[504]

Electric forklifts are what makes me worry about EV tractors. They were tried at a factory here in town about 20 years ago and they couldn’t run one shift. They had to change out the batteries and the time they wasted doing that killed the experiment.

 

[Factotum]

Electric forklifts are what makes me worry about EV tractors. They were tried at a factory here in town about 20 years ago and they couldn’t run one shift. They had to change out the batteries and the time they wasted doing that killed the experiment.

Batteries 20 years ago weren't good enough. They have become better. I can't see any other way forward, too many people are against fossil fuel burning equipment. It might not really be feasible until the next good advancement in battery storage capability. At that point cars, trucks, buses, transport, tractors and possibly even ocean shipping will all be electric. Fossil fuel burning machinery will be more antiquated than the horse and buggy is to us now.

 

[grandpa Love]

In the utility 40 hp class selectrac started general market sales this year of a compact electric tractor.
They sold 75 units in first 6 months of production this year . A farmer on ewe tube demo one, he has loader and
takes two 900 -1000 lb hay bales every morning out to the cow pasture with this tractor. One bale per trip.
He says no worries about starting a combustion engine on cold morning ,no dead battery. no fuel gelling..no purchase diesel
fuel . Reliable work horse. Says the battery drops 1 % after morning chores finished .
Are these going to take over th3 40 horse utility tractor market. Did we see the start of the switch to the compact electric tractor in 2023 ?

Wife and I test drove one ... We liked it, but we won't be trading our little Massey Ferguson in anytime soon. If we were in the market for one we would buy electric. Perfect for our 3 acres

 

[Northvale PA]

Batteries 20 years ago weren't good enough. They have become better. I can't see any other way forward, too many people are against fossil fuel burning equipment. It might not really be feasible until the next good advancement in battery storage capability. At that point cars, trucks, buses, transport, tractors and possibly even ocean shipping will all be electric. Fossil fuel burning machinery will be more antiquated than the horse and buggy is to us now.

Sure. And everything will reset back to pre 1800 too. Good luck with no petro chemicals.

 

[Phil T]

Everyone forgets that you have to recharge the batteries and around here electricity is not cheap. I will stick with diesel thank you.

 

[super99]

Electric forklifts are what makes me worry about EV tractors. They were tried at a factory here in town about 20 years ago and they couldn’t run one shift. They had to change out the batteries and the time they wasted doing that killed the experiment.

I worked for Raymond for 15 years, they build electric walk behind pallet jacks and walkie stackers. All forklifts are electric. great when batteries are new, I could get 2 shifts out of my truck , I was a material handler in the machine shop, so it ran all of the time. As the battery got older the charge didn't last as long and after a few years, it needed charged at break and lunch to get thru the day. The way it was explained to me was that the battery last for so many charges, pick a number, say 5000. Every time you plugged it in that counted as a charge whether it was for a full charge or just over break or lunch it dropped the number of charges left by one. They said to run the battery down to 10% before charging but as the battery got older if I did that, it would run out of charge during the shift and take the rest of the shift to fully charge and then we were out of a truck the rest of the day, so my boss said to charge every night. 4 years ago, a new battery for the fork truck was over $8000. They are great until you have to replace the battery!!

 

[farmersamm]

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[used red MN]

At that point cars, trucks, buses, transport, tractors and possibly even ocean shipping will all be electric. Fossil fuel burning machinery will be more antiquated than the horse and buggy is to us now.

What is going to create the power to charge the batteries if fossil fuels are not available? How will it get from its creation point to the batteries to charge them? You tell me, did you go to a gas station this last week? Look around think of the amount of energy that would be made by a fire that is burning off all the gas being pumped at one station. Then look around at how many gas stations this is happening at. To replace all that energy the generation capabilities we have now and the grid to transfer it is going to be severely overloaded without some serious upgrades. And if coal goes away completely you better start preparing to accept we need to build more nuke plants. If you think wind and solar will make up the difference they don’t even cover 15 percent of the current load.

 

[Mcrafty1]

In the utility 40 hp class selectrac started general market sales this year of a compact electric tractor.
They sold 75 units in first 6 months of production this year . A farmer on ewe tube demo one, he has loader and
takes two 900 -1000 lb hay bales every morning out to the cow pasture with this tractor. One bale per trip.
He says no worries about starting a combustion engine on cold morning ,no dead battery. no fuel gelling..no purchase diesel
fuel . Reliable work horse. Says the battery drops 1 % after morning chores finished .
Are these going to take over th3 40 horse utility tractor market. Did we see the start of the switch to the compact electric tractor in 2023 ?

Anything electric is not cheap now, wait until everything relies on electricity.....and it's production is mostly, if not all produced by government controlled entities.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

You have to be careful what you invest in right now, because a lot of these little pop-up manufacturers are milking the system, producing enough to entice investors, then disappearing in the middle of the night with everyone's money.

Anybody can take a cheap Chinese compact tractor, yank out the engine, stuff a motor in the clutch housing, and fill the engine compartment with batteries. Slap on some bright paint and a flashy logo, come up with a convincing song-and-dance number, and you'll have investors throwing millions at you.

Electric tractors could be practical and useful if we didn't have greedy selfish shysters torpedoing the whole industry with their bad behavior.

 

[E.B. Haymakin']

In the utility 40 hp class selectrac started general market sales this year of a compact electric tractor.
They sold 75 units in first 6 months of production this year . A farmer on ewe tube demo one, he has loader and
takes two 900 -1000 lb hay bales every morning out to the cow pasture with this tractor. One bale per trip.
He says no worries about starting a combustion engine on cold morning ,no dead battery. no fuel gelling..no purchase diesel
fuel . Reliable work horse. Says the battery drops 1 % after morning chores finished .
Are these going to take over th3 40 horse utility tractor market. Did we see the start of the switch to the compact electric tractor in 2023 ?

Imagine the havoc a rat or mouse are going to cause on any of these new tractors, traditional combustion or ev with all the computers. I was looking at the inventory of some salvage yards and I noted most of the newer models of tractors in their inventories were burnt to a crisp. Pre 90s tractors all looked like they were salvageable.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

This time of the year I have to put my cordless batteries in a cooler with a light bulb inside to keep them warm or they won't take a charge.
Cold cordless batteries don't have the power they had in the summer.
My cordless batteries won't charge if they are too warm.

I've never owned an EV. I have no clue how they would keep the battery at the best temp to take a charge and how will they keep me warm in the winter.

I'm not 100%, I think cordless batteries and EV's use the same type battery.

Google says:

Most electric cars are powered by hundreds or even thousands of small lithium-ion batteries. While these batteries are more advanced than regular batteries, the chemical reactions inside them will still slow down in the cold, which will reduce their charging and discharging efficiency.

Does Temperature Affect EV Battery Life?
Yes, high temperature affects EV battery life. If the battery temperature is higher than 30°C, or 86°F, it can lead to a higher rate of degradation of the battery components, particularly the electrodes and electrolytes. This results in a reduction of the battery’s overall capacity.

Why does cold weather affect the mileage range of an EV?​

One of the biggest challenges with EVs in cold weather is that the battery needs to work harder to do things like keeping the heat on. The best performing battery is a warm battery; cold weather makes the batteries work harder, and drains more power in the process.

I thank God we still have a choice to buy Internal combustion engines. Some states want to take your choice away.

That is all I have to say about that, Forrest Gump.

 

[showcrop]

Electric forklifts are what makes me worry about EV tractors. They were tried at a factory here in town about 20 years ago and they couldn’t run one shift. They had to change out the batteries and the time they wasted doing that killed the experiment.

45 years ago I was working at an institutional food warehouse that was running probably 15 electric forklifts, including in the freezer. They worked at least eight hour shifts. I think that they may have had one propane powered unit. It was very rare to see anyone working on one.

 

[GChief]

What is going to create the power to charge the batteries if fossil fuels are not available?

. If you think wind and solar will make up the difference they don’t even cover 15 percent of the current load.

Actually renewables made up almost 25% of our total power production last year, this has been steadily increasing every year. At the current rate if will be 50% in less than a decade.

If backwards thinking regions would get onboard we would already be at 50%.

 

[teddy52food]

I think it is about time we start looking at the Energy Machine of Joe Newman.