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Electric Vehicles Face Bumpy Road to America's Rural Back 40
21 Oct 2023 | Abstracted from AgWeb
"The hurdles EVs must clear to be viable on the farm are incredibly high from both an engineering and an economic standpoint. Powering such massive machines by a battery alone adds even more weight and mass."Soil compaction already weighs heavily on how modern farm equipment is designed...Compacted soil releases greenhouse gasses such as methane and nitrous oxide, which are much more potent than a tractor's exhaust."
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