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Self driving vehicles
Modern large scale farming couldn't exist without self driving tractors, indeed, the operator has so much to do that he/she doesn't have the time to drive ! This is especially so when pulling a 48 row planter that digs the furrow, plants the seed, inoculates it and then covers it up in one pass.
And this could lead onto a comment re electric vehicles, especially tractors.
A modern broad-acre machine is rated at around 500/1000 hp, some even have 2 engines. Assume 400 kw, then the biggest Tesla battery pak is around 150 kwh, so would last 150/450 hours, or about 20 minutes, then u need another and another etc, for 23 hours per day during planting/harvest. Anyone see a problem with calling for electric everything ?
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