An Electric DRIVERLESS Tractor in New Zealand!

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@MonarchTractor 29 күн бұрын

Loved hearing your impressions and feedback on the tractor while you are talking with Euan and utilizing Row Follow! We think having the ability of driving hands free can make tractor operations worry free. Since Row Follow takes control of the steering while in the rows & keeping the tractor centered, it enables you to focus on controlling the implement or even doing a full on interview! ⚡😅

@bluestraycat Ай бұрын

Amazing! So exciting to see such enthusiastic adoption of this technology. It gives me hope for the future

@TassieEV Ай бұрын

This is amazing Gav. Reminds me of a farm I went on a tour of here in Tasmania, owned by Simon Hackett, it was amazing he had 200kW solar generation which also provided shade to his sheep plus flow batteries and well being a former owner of a well known ISP in Australia that unfortunately the new owners decided to retire also has underground fibre connecting all the buildings plus a runway for his Pilatus PC12.

@W4DSolutions Ай бұрын

This is one of my favorite videos you've done

@gregb1599 Ай бұрын

I have heard the comment before! "This technology is available now," Yep Eloon said in 2017 when he said they were building the new Roadster, or "FSD is ready now" But to be fair at least Gavin saying this is not BS as this is in fact working "now"!

@kielhutchings3227 Ай бұрын

New Zealand has autonomous tractors for a few years now. Smart machine/Oxin. One operator can run multiple machines.

@Alex-jk1tm Ай бұрын

Awesome Gav!

@mev202 Ай бұрын

Take a shot every time Gavin points out it's driverless. You'll be drunk very quickly. Lol.

@metricstormtrooper Ай бұрын

That would be the bees knees in a large production glasshouse.

@grantlouw3182 Ай бұрын

Fantastic.

@kristie8727 Ай бұрын

Proud to have been a tiny bit apart of the solar project 😊 must try and visit

@conceptrat Ай бұрын

Sent this to my mate looking at upgrading to Tesla M3 Highland. I think this is infinitely more useful. 😸

@Buzzinga248 Ай бұрын

Can it turn around onto the next row autonomously?

@AndrewSheldon Ай бұрын

Not new, but new application. In broad acre farming and large scale mining, its not new. Being new, vendors charge double, getting all the benefit. Make sure LFP batteries for longer life.

@barrygump-he3ul Ай бұрын

Can't see the manager getting out of the office to put a mower on it

@fleachamberlain1905 Ай бұрын

4:06 Great video as usual, but speaking as someone who is unsuitable for skilled work and dependent on menial and repetitive work, owing to my intellectual disabilities, robits taking all such work won't work for me. There won't be any work I can do anymore. The idea that taking such work from all people so people can only have skilled work, being unequivocally, necessarily great for everyone, is very narrow sighted to neurotypical benefit only.

@Nixdb Ай бұрын

I agree that this is a problem that not many people are talking about. Though, something the robots cannot take from you is your humanity. There will always be jobs involving being caring and keeping people company that require people. Still, changing jobs is hard. I wish the people in politics stopped being so focused on university university university. We need jobs for all our people and we need to respect the people doing those jobs.

@RickTai Ай бұрын

You may be able to ride on it though to monitor quality and identify risks

@hilltophigh Ай бұрын

Now find one harvesting potatoes!!!

@honesty_-no9he Ай бұрын

Same tech can run a machine designed for that purpose.

@jeromehugh9624 Ай бұрын

Is it any different than a line following robot?

@masterofthepinkside Ай бұрын

aall that and you didn't even complete the list of advantages: not having diesel emissions in the rows where the food is will also produce a superior product, so less waste at harvest time. all the wins!

@lowtech_1 Ай бұрын

Can you fit a FEL on it.

@Allewis55 Ай бұрын

Agricultural Tractors could be the ideal use candidate for electrification - all the torque is at 0 RPM; the tractor needs weight for good traction in boggy conditions; tractors travel at low speed. Just my 2 cents.

@hughmarcus1 Ай бұрын

Except most of them need to run round the clock at harvest time. Unless you can find a way to easily swop batteries then it’s a no go. Even then you’d need to swop them in the field. At harvest time entire fleets of tractors & combine harvesters are refuelled on the move using bowsers. This is a tiny vineyard tractor. It’s really a toy as tractors go.

@PistonAvatarGuy Ай бұрын

High power requirements for long periods of time is exactly the opposite of an ideal use case for battery electric systems. Hybridization might improve their efficiency, but it would likely also increase their cost.

@stevenmelling6068 Ай бұрын

I like the idea of no exhaust gases going over my fruit and vegetables

@PistonAvatarGuy Ай бұрын

@@stevenmelling6068 CNG engines can be made to produce almost zero emissions. In the US, natural gas is likely to be the fuel source for an electric tractor anyway.

@Allewis55 Ай бұрын

@@stevenmelling6068 Yes, diesel soot is not an attractive flavoring for peaches and spinach.

@theunknownunknowns256 Ай бұрын

Been trying to get Imogen bhogal to cover the electric cherries. But we got Gav.

@johnhornblow4347 Ай бұрын

Imogen had more hair

@JJomoro 5 күн бұрын

Matt Watson from down under

@Jon-wf3wg Ай бұрын

Very interesting, however the business case would be a bit more convincing if the orchard had paid for it, and mentioned how much the solar panel farm costed

@theunknownunknowns256 Ай бұрын

The orchard as a whole offsets about $60 000 a year in fossil fuels if I remember correctly. They have a KZbin see for yourself. I understand being skeptical but these guys have proper high end accounting and statistical talent helping them out. The claims are robust.

@Nixdb Ай бұрын

Many orchards/farms already have solar installations as the economics have just made sense, even without a tractor. When land is cheaper, you don't have to get up on a residential roof and you get bulk pricing from a larger array, solar just makes sense.

@julianskinner3697 Ай бұрын

Aotearoa nz mostly uses hydro power.