Farmer explaining why liberals push for electric vehicles is currently impossible for farming:
“Someone else asked why we don’t use electric tractors to seed with, and here’s why. I seeded 6,000 hectares. It took around 30,000 liters of diesel, which is about 321,600 kilowatt hours of energy. To do that with an electric tractor, I’d need the battery from a Tesla Semi recharged 322 times. So even with a super-fast industrial 350 kilowatt charger, that’s 918 hours of charging—more than three times longer than the actual job.
Someone asked about solar as well. So even with a massive 100 kilowatt system, it’d take nearly two years to match the diesel energy used. And to keep up with the job in real time, you’d need a solar farm bigger than 45 football fields. I love the idea of electric, but until I can plug into a lightning bolt, diesel’s still the only option at this scale.
With this 80-foot bar, you know, it’s digging right into the ground. It really does require an awesome amount of power. Sometimes the hum of the engines is nice, but actually, ask any farmer, and at the end of the day, when you turn that tractor off and the engine goes off, ah, it’s literally like taking off a pair of jeans that’s too tight, or you know, you’re finally out of the office and you’re not making calls anymore, and it’s just like, ah, your brain can just breathe.
But yeah, electric would be awesome, but we are very, very far away from that. Thanks for watching!”