solar converted tractor

[MrTpengineer]

This is where "inovate or die" comes into play :)

[Anothercoilgun]

3K per panel. Stop smoking that good shit. Solar is at 2 to 3 dollars per watt in single quantities. Pallets get you down to 1.50 per watt.

[cloudburstlenepmhq]

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[Hetman1974]

This is why Europeans will always be one step ahead. This is why the USA will always prevail.

[d3adp001]

3000.00 per panel? BULLSHIT, someone slap that reporter. Those panels are 400.00 each, toss in 150 for a charge controller, 1500.00 in batteries, a curtis controller, and a warp 9 motor, for around 3000.00

Why put all of that on an old POS, people wont take it serious until its on something modern.

[handrez2611]

grosso



[1jks]

whats he use to lube it? lol But great idea big companys should be making these.

[ethericplane]

NASA has proven there is enough energy locked up in a teacup full of air to boil away the oceans. A sensible tractor would utilize the energy at hand instead of digging and pumping oil from another country, for Christ's sake. At least use natural gas from America.

[tusambolo]

Altairnano batteries can even recharge in 10 min

[guytoun22]

bon pour bricoler

[ndyt]

Looks like the ICE engine is still on his tractor, sounds like it too. Also, going slow with an EV is easy, it is getting it on the highway that is hard.

[Pentanee]

Its cheaper with Nanosolar's cells. We should make this the law, immediately. The oil companies will fight this, tooth and nail, behind the scenes, of course. We should not rest till it is the law.

[BillTheTractorMan]

pentanee we will never become oil free until it runs out and even thanwe humans will find a way to engineer it ours selves

[FlanneltheNerfer]

Direct qoute "fossil fuel, fossil energy is so cheap". Not anymore! His idea could actually catch on.

[crazykarlnow]

Awsome ! I had read about doing this in my Mother Earth News. Great to see someone actually doing this ! Now if you just add g.p.s. you wouldn't need an operator.

[vonziebelbach]

great iniative, although I think we

have to rely on the petroldriven tractors

until the electric powered ones

get more effective.

[KARStarla]

He was smart and did it before the market demanded it, our farmers should all have this power incorporated into their farming equipment to keep them going without the cost of fuel bankrupting them

[FordsSuck95]

what does he do when the sun dont shine

[groovatic1]

one word- Batteries!

[FordsSuck95]

thanks

[segarza]

Actually the tractor doesn't run directly off the panels, it runs off batteries. Those panels don't produce enough power to run the tractor alone. Looks like around 1kw total of panels. That tractor would require at the very least 10-15kw continuous power.

[tsport100]

What is it with Naysayers? "Will never work" brainless statement! It's a 1950s tractor, not exactly a study in lightweight materials. In the Solar car race across Australia the cars travel at over 100kph all day running off a 1.8kw solar array.

[gibsonrockin247]

This is a very small scale project costing about 7000.00 dollars in total. don't forget the batteries and the electric motor and everything else. Probaably will do about two acres of plowing befor it craps out then you have to let it chare again . We farm 5000 acres in ks. so it would take 5 years to farm it once. well never work

[groovatic1]

THis tractor was never intended to be used on a large industrial farm. This unit was ment to do the work of a horse powered farm without the horse. Tis' much better than doing it by hand eh?

[truthspeaker2000]

"We farm 5000 acres in ks. so it would take 5 years to farm it once. well never work"

Well, it wouldn´t work with 5 solar cells

on the rooftop of your tractor, but with

20 cells or/and an additional windmill

it would work. And yes, it would be more a

70000 $ project than a 7000 $ project.

But what is the cost for a new

conventional tractor and fuel over 10 years ?

Probably more than 70 000 $.

[swelime]

Well $3000 sounds expensive, unless they aren't ultra efficient solar cells.

[HAL11000]

Some states pay half of the cost.

[abcvega]

Imagine a modern "lighter" tactor...good vid.... to bad the big auto companies can't shift to all electric... imagine no oil changes, anti freeze, etc...what to do with spare parts...? and the service industry in general?....they're in no rush...

[groovatic1]

ok THE $3000 SOLAR PRICE IS WRONG- THE REPORTER WAS INACCURATE - SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE PRICE FOR THE WHOLE ARRAY, EACH PANEL IS ACTUALLY A LITTLE UNDER $1000 - 175 WATT SHELL TIMES FOUR- YES IT CAN BE DONE, YES ITS CRUDE, BUT ITS FUN TO RUN, IT WORKS AND WORKS WELL. THIS WAS A PROJECT DONE TO JUST SEE IF IT COULD WORK, AND YUP IT DOES! HE STILL USES IT EVERY DAY! MORE VIDS TO COME............

[toughmachine]

very earth-conscious man! Lover the OLD tractor retrofit!

[segarza]

Had to be running on batteries. That wasn't enough solar power to do any useful work with that heavy tractor. The panels would recharge the batteries really fast though.

[chrisearle05]

Much of the weight would be from the engine block and the fuel which is absent. And 3000 dollars a panel? Nope-the cost would be 1/3 of that at the most.

[energyadvertiser]

Solar prius!

Solar And Wind Powered Van!

BMW Hydrogen Car!

All on my channel!

[sunray06]

$3000 dollars each for a solar panel MISINFORMATION

[sonofjabba]

Maybe we'll all balance out with burning a hole in the ozone layer with our fossil fueled vehicles with the ozone producing electric ones?? Makes you think!

[groovatic1]

sparks do produce ozone, but in very small amounts but these are well running motors,and don't really produce any ozone- ozone means your brushes in the motor are wearing badly- nice concept though- cheers!~Eddy

[sustainabletech]

Nice one! FYI The price of solar panels is only about $1,000 each.

[Dilekz]

no its even less....  its 800 probably

[segarza]

Depends on the size and those were not that big.

[pkillor]

Buen ejemplo de cambio de mentalidad en la america profunda!!

[cotterperson]

Not to mention national security! Thanks for this.

[joebonk]

fossil fuels arent really cheap if you factor in the costs of global warming

[groovatic1]

the comment made was in referance to the average person comparing the cost of solar to fossil fuels, which in the short, is very expensive, but yes in the long run, solar will always have the least impact all around.