Battery Electric Tractors: Small-Scale Organic Growers’ Preferences, Perceptions, and Concerns

Battery electric tractors (BETs) demonstrate considerable advantages over diesel-fueled tractors, including higher conversion efficiency, higher torque, less maintenance, and no tailpipe emissions. Converting to BETs also requires tradeoffs in the form of the batteries’ high cost, increased weight,...

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Published in:	Energies
Main Authors:	Douglas L. Bessette, Daniel C. Brainard, Ajit K. Srivastava, Woongkul Lee, Sarah Geurkink
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2022-11-01
Subjects:	clean energy sustainable energy transitions electric tractors batteries organic vegetables
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/22/8648