 Re: Electric tractor
LaTourno was a big time, heavy equipment builder back in the 40's all the way to today. His company still makes some of the larger mining equipment there is. He invented hydrualics on a dozer blade and the self propelled belly scraper. In his modifications and improvements to the scraper, he came up with putting electic motors at each wheel. He said that the electric motor has so much more power then a diesel engine, that it was the logical thing to do. Of course, that was before modern hydraulics, and I don't know anything about electric motors. He used the diesel engine to generate electicity and the electric motors to turn the wheels.
The problem I think you'll have is getting electric motors big enough to do the job and then having enough electicity to power them.
Eddie |