Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours

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Post by dakna » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:04 PM UTC

Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours
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Post by sandworm101 » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:40 PM UTC

Progress yes, but at a peak of 70hp it won't be plowing much more than a hobby garden.

Autonomous operation is all well and good but expect resistance. Look at how many farmers are injured by tractor equipment. They will rightly fear driverless tractors.

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Post by gambiting » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:46 PM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #2

Progress yes, but at a peak of 70hp it won't be plowing much more than a hobby garden. Autonomous operation is all well and good but expect resistance. Look at how many farmers are injured by tractor equipment. They will rightly fear driverless tractors.

Uhm.....I'm pretty sure my family has been plowing fields(and I do mean fields, not hobby gardens) with our trusty old Ursus C330[0], making a whole 30 horse power. Not sure why 70hp would be a problem.

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursus_C-330

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Post by minhazm » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:47 PM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #2

Progress yes, but at a peak of 70hp it won't be plowing much more than a hobby garden. Autonomous operation is all well and good but expect resistance. Look at how many farmers are injured by tractor equipment. They will rightly fear driverless tractors.

Tractors don't need horse power, they need torque.

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Post by WesleyLivesay » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #2

Progress yes, but at a peak of 70hp it won't be plowing much more than a hobby garden. Autonomous operation is all well and good but expect resistance. Look at how many farmers are injured by tractor equipment. They will rightly fear driverless tractors.

Those were my thoughts as well. Around the size of a hobby tractor and it will be interesting to see if they can scale it up without losing endurance.

I also feel that 10 hours of battery time isn't sufficient outside of the hobby space. Especially when considering that it probably isn't road legal in autonomous mode.

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Post by kemiller » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #3

sandworm101 wrote: post #2

Progress yes, but at a peak of 70hp it won't be plowing much more than a hobby garden. Autonomous operation is all well and good but expect resistance. Look at how many farmers are injured by tractor equipment. They will rightly fear driverless tractors.

Uhm.....I'm pretty sure my family has been plowing fields(and I do mean fields, not hobby gardens) with our trusty old Ursus C330[0], making a whole 30 horse power. Not sure why 70hp would be a problem. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursus_C-330

Not to mention that fields are still plowed by actual horses.

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Post by WesleyLivesay » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:49 PM UTC

minhazm wrote: post #4

sandworm101 wrote: post #2

Progress yes, but at a peak of 70hp it won't be plowing much more than a hobby garden. Autonomous operation is all well and good but expect resistance. Look at how many farmers are injured by tractor equipment. They will rightly fear driverless tractors.

Tractors don't need horse power, they need torque.

Torque is certainly important, which is why I was a bit surprised that they haven't released torque figures for this. Just the ever nebulous "twice as much as similar sized competitors"

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Post by GlenTheMachine » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:50 PM UTC

No front-end loader. Less torque than a John Deere. Lame. \s

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Post by chickenpotpie » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:50 PM UTC

WesleyLivesay wrote: post #5

sandworm101 wrote: post #2

Progress yes, but at a peak of 70hp it won't be plowing much more than a hobby garden. Autonomous operation is all well and good but expect resistance. Look at how many farmers are injured by tractor equipment. They will rightly fear driverless tractors.

Those were my thoughts as well. Around the size of a hobby tractor and it will be interesting to see if they can scale it up without losing endurance. I also feel that 10 hours of battery time isn't sufficient outside of the hobby space. Especially when considering that it probably isn't road legal in autonomous mode.

10 hours of autonomous is pretty great. Someone can’t safely operate a tractor for 10 hours straight anyways

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Post by sandworm101 » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 9:51 PM UTC

kemiller wrote: post #6

gambiting wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhm.....I'm pretty sure my family has been plowing fields(and I do mean fields, not hobby gardens) with our trusty old Ursus C330[0], making a whole 30 horse power. Not sure why 70hp would be a problem. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursus_C-330

Not to mention that fields are still plowed by actual horses.

FYI a modern horse can generate many horsepower, between 10 and 15hp per horse.