Solectrac Electric Tractor Showcase

this is solar track Electric tractors and this is the electric machine this is the selectrack e25 it's an all-electric 25 horsepower compact tractor it depending on what you're doing you can get three to four hours of constant work out of it if you're really working it hard but in lighter loads you can get up to six seven eight hours out of the front time the tractor operates uh just like a normal conventional tractor with a missing around 200 moving Parts under the hood you see here we've replaced the conventional diesel engine with a 72 volt lithium ion battery pack that powers an electric motor that drives a tractor so it's an electric tractor that does tractory things we just do it around 40 decibels quieter than a conventional tractor it has instant torque so it actually pulls phenomenal uh and we do it with zero emissions so tell me about zero emissions um I you know you visited the farm recently and we talked about this and a lot of folks asked me about and I'm not selling you a tractor here I'm just talking to you about this because I'm curious about new technology zero emissions what does that mean so tell me um that means the tractor puts out zero emissions what's what about the manufacturing process people really talked a lot about and kind of ripped me apart about having this tractor and not understanding the manufacturing process what kind of battery do we have first of all you said lithium lithium ion lithium ferrous batteries so the batteries that we use are actually almost completely recyclable okay so we are a certified B Corp with selectrac so we put people in Planet before profit right yes you have conventional manufacturing with the components right here but at the end of the day we're trying to do what we can to lower Greenhouse emissions and and again that's you know there there's there's no agendas here right right we're just making a tractor to offer to the public that is a little cleaner and a little quieter or a lot cleaner and a little quieter so some of the questions that were asked to me were well you're not going to be on that thing for 18 hours a day plowing up fields or whatever but this is not the purpose of this track this is a compact tractor that a small farmer an orchard a hobby farmer a person that moves and just bought 15 20 acres and has to mow a homesteader so it's a homestead type tractor I mean you know I tell everybody it's it's a tractor for most applications um depending on the usage right again this this is a…