Some one wanted to know if we'd buy an EV tractor

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Eagle1 said:
Even just voltage drop over distance is way over their heads,
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Oh that's easy. My local electrical building inspector explained it to me once. He commmented on how he'd have failed me if the electrician hadn't left little loops in the wire as it passed through the 2*4s . I foolishly thought it was so, if years from now, someone needed a few more inches of wire it'd be there. But nope he explained it to me. If the turn is too tight the electrons go whizzing off into space.
And there you have the whole voltage drop mystery.
 
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Raul-02 said:
Honest to god I don't feel bend over any barrel. But then I dis trouble myself to learn w how to use the system to my advantage.
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I'm not implying being bent over a barrel; more a matress, on a box spring, with a nice wood frame.

When I meant we, I meant masses as a whole, of which I am quite certainly a part of.
 
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Raul-02 said:
…..If the turn is too tight the electrons go whizzing off into space.
And there you have the whole voltage drop mystery.
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😆😂😁😜😹
 
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RolandW said:
But today with EVs, bossy loudmouths think they have to force them on us because we're too stupid to know that they're good for us.
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Can u name some of these bossy loudmouths please? And provide evidence of the forcing please?
 
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Raul-02 said:
Behold the bossy loudmouth politicians. Do you really need a list of names? You know who they are.
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All politicians like to talk. I do not know any who go around forcing people to buy EVs. Some may speak their opinions on EVs, just like we all do here. Please point to specific examples of being forced to like or buy EVs by them……
 
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I see too many problems for this to work, at least for now.

Are the batteries proprietary or universal? I hate to have to pay a dealer for a new battery. Or find out that my brand tractor requires that brand's batteries.

Will the batteries cost $15K+? Like some of the horror stories coming from folks that bought used EVs only to find the battery was at end of life and unavailable.

If you run out of juice in the middle of a field how do you recharge or get the tractor home? Portable 50A generator? Really long cable?

Planning for a job do you know which attachments are going to suck your power down the quickest?

If you stall an attachment will it pop a breaker, blow a fuse or burn something up? Breakers get weak if "exercised" too often, and if you don't have a fuse on hand...

I can't imagine an electric motor being any smaller than my diesel (unless they go for one at each wheel) and the battery certainly must be larger than my fuel tank, so what does that do to the size of the tractor?

I store my tractor in a shipping container, now I'd have to get power run out there for charging.

I'm sure there are plenty of things I haven't considered that will only crop up once someone owns an EV tractor.
 
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