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A Real Solution
Electric farm tractors are a much better idea than trying to run them on biofuels because biofuels require about ten acres of a biofuels crop to produce enough diesel fuel to run a typical farm tractor, such as those below, for a year.
The owners of the two tractors below have gone a step further and have solar-powered them. That means their tractors will run for years with absolutely no fuel expense of any kind, and produce zero pollution. In addition, these farmer won’t have to be immersed in the very noisy and poisonous area of a typical diesel-powered tractor where they would be forced to breathe diesel fumes all day long.
Tractors are obviously a great labor-saving device for farms, and more people could invest in tractors such as these now for the current and future labor-saving, health and environmental benefits.
EVMaine.org salutes these two pioneers for their visionary outlook, and for their unique solutions.
A Discussion: The Case For The Electric Tractor
This is a discussion that tells why using food (biofuels) to run tractors is not feasable, and electric tractors are.
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And this is his book on Peak Oil
And here’s his YouTube video of his tractor in action
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This is David Heckenroth’s Solar-Powered Electric Farm Tractor
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and this is his YouTube video on it
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The General Electric Elec-Trak Garden Tractors
Now defunct, but here are some sources for current ELEC-TRAK owners/enthusiasts:
New Electric Tractors
Meanwhile, this may be a market ripe for entrepreneurial picking. Here is the only remaining manufacturer of electric tractors
Electric Tractor Corp
Manufacturers of the "Electric Ox" battery powered tractor They offer a front-mounted mower deck and several implements 400A Collier-MacMillan Drive Cambridge, ON N1R 7H7, Canada, (877) 533-4333.
Gorilla Brand Electric Tractors and ATVs
These are real electric workhorses
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Do you know of any other electric farm tractors? If so. please let us know so we can include them on this page. Thanks
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