Just a random musing. As EV’s become more popular, means less gas being used, means potentially lower prices since supply of gas should increase? Or do they just cut production and keep prices the same.
Wondering what will happen in the long term.
Just a random musing. As EV’s become more popular, means less gas being used, means potentially lower prices since supply of gas should increase? Or do they just cut production and keep prices the same.
Wondering what will happen in the long term.
short distance is meaningless.
what matters is how much energy is being used and the energy used by farming equipment is huge.
especially large equipment like combines is standing around for months at a time only to be operated 24/7 for a few weeks during harvesting season.
this vehicle category will take many more decades to be realistically switched to EVs.
small tractors could work but even these are operating at high load for days on end and you would need multiple of them so you can switch them out during operation.
I think you mean “short distance is not enough to overcome the other challenges to electrifying farming equipment.”
Short distance is actually hugely meaningful when talking about electrification. Local fleets tied to a base station are much easier to electrify because the base station can be equipped to provide them with power, and you don’t need a distributed charging network.