6 hours from the battery is a joke but I bet farmers wish they only had to work 6 and not 18 hours.

@Ham68229

22 күн бұрын

Closer to 24hrs pending on weather and other conditions. :)

@Rockall57

6 сағат бұрын

It's not a production tractor..it's a concept to prove ability..give these incredibly inventive young men a break!

@Ham68229

3 сағат бұрын

@@Rockall57 except farming isn't a concept idea, it's reality. Realistically, concept idea or not, this is NOT practical for farmers. You have training that's involved for the "technicians", then there's the licensing to work on such. The list goes on and on. Not against the idea, it's just not a practical idea. Cost is the biggest factor

@Rockall57

58 минут бұрын

@@Ham68229 tosh

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

@ColinMill1

19 күн бұрын

Yes, my 1963 Massey Feruson 35x is still doing a solid days work and the inside of the Perkins engine hasn't seen the light of day since it was build.

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

@libra4books

Ай бұрын

Pre cultivated sand at that.

@ColinMill1

19 күн бұрын

Good question. He has a 5 furrow plough on that so he has only 32hp per furrow. There is no way he would be ripping along at anything like that speed if he was ploughing a typical soggy English field.

@bobf1174

8 күн бұрын

Nope

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

@downtoearth1950

17 күн бұрын

Re-plowing is often done on fallow land for weed and disease control and as part of final prep for seeding that may have been originally plowed months before. And it is certainly easier to do. This proto type would be useless on any normal agricultural development I know of! ?.......

@homeistheearth

14 күн бұрын

​@@downtoearth1950try use the harrow instead. Destroys much less biology

@elespe8167

12 күн бұрын

@@downtoearth1950To nie ogór, tam nie ma chwastów

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

@Gugernoot

Ай бұрын

And 10 minute refuels not 2 hour charging stops. InB4: get another tractor, the other tractors are probably busy.

@mithall4198

Ай бұрын

They should be developing a removable battery pack system. Three battery packs would keep 2 tractors operating for that 16 hours.

@velotill

28 күн бұрын

​@@mithall4198 exactly, think Dewalt times 1k. These are already made by CAT and Volvo and will be great for using most of all that rooftop PV in stationary mode. Too much "nah, if it ain't 1:1 what my Diesel monster can do the whole electrification is never gonna work. I'll bet even non corp family farmers will adapt their work flows if there is money to be saved on fuel and maintenance. Sadly the whole" we got a moral obligation in the US to stop using fossile fuels within the next 20yrs to mitigate man made climate change" is a big no-no, so other nations have and had to come up with the subsidies bringing green tech up to scale, only then is the US and Australia willing to do it : /

@tristenklein5940

12 күн бұрын

@@velotillno they should be expanding Diesel and Gas ICE engineering and development! Proven reliable inexpensive abundant natural energy resources, EV is 100x more expensive, dangerous, destructive and unreliable energy sources and has zero to do with the environment.

@johndoe1909

6 күн бұрын

sure it might require a bit of charging time to go all in. however given the radically lower tco it leave quite a bit of room for things to adjust schedules and tunke4 with new processes.

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

Makes the batteries interchangable and awaay we go!

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

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.

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

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

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.

@Ham68229

22 күн бұрын

With the ability to disengage the drive train. Dead battery, drive train is locked, remember, electric motors only.

@robertsmith9810

22 күн бұрын

@@Ham68229 need to be a special trained fitter to be allowed to work on or recover EVs

@Ham68229

21 күн бұрын

@@robertsmith9810 don't forget if it catches fire, firefighters have to be trained to fight such a type of fire. This is just a dumb idea trying to go EV, just too expensive

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).

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.

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

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

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?

@homeistheearth

14 күн бұрын

Yes be careful what end of field you stop in or you might not get home to the charger 😂

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....

@davepermen

21 күн бұрын

Actual battery cost of 300kWh are btw approaching the 15000$ this year. So no, you're off by a factor of 10.

@beowolfgang

20 күн бұрын

@@davepermen Hard to believe, maybe in china, but not here in Germany or Europe. The battery is by far the most expensive part of an e-car, not to mention a tractor. This crap is produced at dumping prices in China and the energetical footprint of a batterie is huge - produced with coal energy in china and with vast destruction of the environment to get the rare materials. i have a battery in my house, 5 kwh and paid 2022 5000 Euros for it, but i have to admit, prices have halved since then, but only due to chinese business war tactics. Over here in Germany, we are deindustrializing our economy and we currently even dont have the energy for this E-Crap.

Rock in roll 😎watch Bluewater and C21👍🤠

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..

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

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

@its_making_sense

Ай бұрын

Once you have some experience with it, I would be happy to visit your farm and record your experience to share with the other farmers in the world !

@FlavienRoussel

Ай бұрын

Is it with a lease or you bought it ?

@agronorth2640

Ай бұрын

@@its_making_sense you will be welcome😊 I will also make a lot of content on it here👌 great to show what’s possible, things are happening fast now😀

@agronorth2640

Ай бұрын

@@FlavienRoussel leased

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.

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

@homeistheearth

14 күн бұрын

But caterpillar is happy and so is the oil companies.

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

it seems it can plough already ploughed or seriously ripped ground very well. can it do it for 16 hours.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

@farmer9180

13 күн бұрын

That tractor is a joke. 6 hours is also a joke. Going to have to have a charging station at each field. Might work if people are willing to pay at least 4 times as much for food.

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

@robertsmith9810

22 күн бұрын

i have a salt and pepper battery powered grinder in all honesty it is pretty useless piece of kit

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

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.

Make it articulated so it can cultivate row crops easy

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

where is the fun of hearing the tractor engine

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

@hughmarcus1

Ай бұрын

I think JCB already have a hydrogen version of this tractor running. They’re able to modify their existing turbo diesel engines to run on hydrogen

@robertsmith9810

22 күн бұрын

@@hughmarcus1 can they produce enough hydrogen and at what price

dreamers 😞

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

@PriitYT1

Ай бұрын

Didnt they mention it in the video, that they would in future use batteries as extra weigh ballast?

No one plows because of climate !

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 KZread for "This GIANT Electric Semi Can Swap Out Its Batteries!" you can see the video for yourself.

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

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.

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.

Why the fuck do farmers plough dead ground?

@bobf1174

8 күн бұрын

Ground isn’t dead. Called making a seed bed dork

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?

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 !

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.

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.

@eugeneoreilly9356

12 күн бұрын

Farmers invest big money on tractors.They want to see real world conditions not a proof of concept idea before investing.

Nobody is going to care if you older generations are cool with electric tractors or not -just like those who freaked out over using tractors over oxen or horses. The technology is getting better every day. Industrial farming is extremely degenerative and not sustainable as is anyways. Thanks

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

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!

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

What a joke!

Hydrogen engines are coming out, don't buy electric.

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

@Motumatai3

29 күн бұрын

Real power, all day every day, 18 hour days, not stopping to eat lunch only comes from diesel. Battery tech still has to undergo several iterations before it can be taken seriously. Power density, battery longevity and battery safety have to be equivalent to conventional tractors before they will make sense.

@philjennings7501

22 күн бұрын

Obviously never used a tractor in the real world.

@greggergen9104

17 күн бұрын

How many tractors do you own now? How many acres do you farm? Where?

What a waste of time

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

Hahah. And i thought electic cars were a joke. This is worthless tech for farming. Just because you can do it doesnt mean you should.