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West Central MN | The Fendt would be perfect for a planter, light tillage, and maybe a sprayer. A few of those on a large farm running twenty-four hours a day would be very attractive.
Where is this qualified seasonal part time help to operate today's modern equipment? They don't exist around here. Can't even find someone to do the easiest job of driving a semi truck in the same loop everyday for a few weeks.
Electric drive tractors never made any sense for something that spends most of its life under load going forward. There's no such as a free lunch. Compare that to an electric drive bulldozer that spends half its life going backwards, now one might begin to have something. At the end of the day, it is very hard to beat the efficiency of a gear tooth pushing against another gear tooth but who wants a manual transmission in a tractor (or on-highway vehicle) anymore?
Had a similar thought and why it is so brilliant, Fendt made a modern Farmall M.
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Fendt Xaver GT Autonomous Tractor
