When your next tractor is a Tesla
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Technology review
Alessandro Mastellari Technical Specialist Wireless & Sensors, Avnet Abacus
'The promise of lower energy costs, increased productivity and greater reliability, and the pressure from emissions regulation, is driving rapid innovation in many forms of NRMM.' The automotive industry is rapidly shifting toward Electric Vehicles (EVs), but there’s another category of vehicles ripe for electrification: ‘Non-Road Mobile Machinery’ (NRMM), as the regulators put it. This category includes tractors and other agricultural equipment; municipal and property
maintenance equipment; materials and goods handling and transportation; and construction forestry and mining equipment. Electrifying these vehicles will be challenging, because they have more varied duty cycles than road EVs, more complex mechanical
requirements, and often need much more power than even the fastest electric sports car. Nonetheless, the promise of lower energy costs, increased productivity and greater reliability, and the pressure from emissions regulation, is driving rapid innovation in many forms of NRMM.
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