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John Deere Goes Woke with Impractical Electric Farm Equip
Dr. Rich Swier ^ | April 28, 2022 | Dr. Rich Swier

Posted on 07/28/2022 8:16:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It isn't grandpa's Big Green, and hasn't been for some time. It is a typical modern multi-nat whose board-level people are indoctrinated past the point where they can be benign.

They will do whatever globocop tells them to do.

41 posted on 07/28/2022 8:49:19 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: FreshPrince

https://www.deere.com/en/engines-and-drivetrain/vehicle-electrification/


42 posted on 07/28/2022 8:49:46 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: FreshPrince

Didnja hear? The earth only has 8.6426 years left. And Trans Sec Butticall says we need to go all electric. We don’t have time to worry about what farmers want or need. We have to move now!!!!


43 posted on 07/28/2022 8:50:09 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Look for the cost of your box of cornflakes to triple in the next 24 months.

After that, it will really become expensive, so expensive that a box of cereal will be considered a luxury food.


44 posted on 07/28/2022 8:50:53 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

truck mounted diesel generators for recharging... right?


45 posted on 07/28/2022 8:51:10 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: NorthMountain

[It’s “full woke” ... or maybe “Full genocide by engineered famine”, as pioneered by by Soviet Russia in Ukraine, about 100 years ago.]

They cannot be so uninformed that they do not know what the consequences of their plans will be. Thus, it is premeditated.


46 posted on 07/28/2022 8:53:22 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Iceclimber58

Best idea yet on this thread. I’m not giving-up mine, either.


47 posted on 07/28/2022 8:55:06 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In the last 30 years, John Deere has go to hell in a hand basket.

It is a prime example of snooty little punk kids getting their hands on the reigns of control and destroying what was once a great company.

Everything is learned from books..taught by brain dead sons a bitches in colleges.


48 posted on 07/28/2022 8:55:50 AM PDT by crz
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To: Rebelbase

Farmers or anyone else that need to tow 6000 lbs of load cannot exist with a Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck any better than the farmer with all electric equipment. In a recent test run carefully planned by the participants regarding the 300 mile towing range listed for the Lightning got blown out of the water. The Lightning never made it to the first charging station which was a mere 100 miles away. The test was aborted because the Lightning pooped out at 80 miles. The range of the Lightning listed at 300 miles was for the truck with no load.


49 posted on 07/28/2022 8:57:18 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just install a few chargers around that 10,000 acres. Duh.


50 posted on 07/28/2022 8:58:19 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: volunbeer

Silly, the answer to that is to have our submarines run on underwater tracks, like Disneyland. Theirs work just fine.


51 posted on 07/28/2022 8:59:44 AM PDT by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

People have tried this with small tractors. Not compact but regular sized that were 30-40hp to start with. They converted them to electric and drive around but none of them demo with implement doing work. Gee, I wonder why? They try to sell you the planes too. LOL

People have tried keeping electric golf carts charged while operating with solar panels mounted as a roof. Problem is, the solar roof had to be 3-4 times the area of the footprint of the golf cart.

And again I say, if they want to prove alt-e;

Run a solar panel & charge controller manufacturing plant strictly from solar power. Must include manufacture of aluminum extrusion for the solar panel frame. Sheet metal or plastic molding plant to make the charge controller enclosure. Not including mining of raw materials and I bet it still wouldn’t be feasible.

Do the same with wind. Manufacture wind turbines start to finish running off of wind power.

In the both cases, they should also be manufacturing all those batteries they’ll need.

Before they say they can run the world, let them show they can self sustain their own power to build the damn things. Bet they can’t.


52 posted on 07/28/2022 9:00:42 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

No it is NOT a fashion industry. It IS an ongoing science project.


53 posted on 07/28/2022 9:02:08 AM PDT by Dust in the Wind (Drill, Drill, Drill then refine it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We’ll be just like Cuba, 60 years from now we’ll still be using our gas engines as they will be reliable machines.


54 posted on 07/28/2022 9:04:37 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: mikelets456

I remember talking to a friend who provided maintenance for machinery in huge mining operations deep within the Earth. He explained to me the reason he paid so much for tools, as opposed to using Craftsman tools at a low price with a 100% guarantee.

He told me that if a tool broke on the job, that it would cost thousands and thousands of dollars in down time. So he paid a fortune for tools that almost never broke.

Before I had this conversation, I was ignorant, just as your post demonstrates that you are ignorant. But perhaps no longer.


55 posted on 07/28/2022 9:08:46 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: adorno
If the democRATs actually wanted "electric everything" AND wanted to minimize CO2 emissions from burning coal and petroleum they would be massively promoting nuclear energy to power it all.

They aren't.

They're demonizing everything except the utterly inadequate and unreliable wind/solar.

That proves they're lying. They have some agenda other than powering a large, growing economy.

You will live in an urban hive, own nothing, eat worms, and be miserable.

56 posted on 07/28/2022 9:10:03 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: max americana
plus John Deere is a “don’t repair it, we will..for an extra fee” company.

Along with Ford and every other such manufacturer. I bought a Ford Ranger truck last year, for which I had to shop around a great deal due to lack of availability. No one could tell me where the oil filter was. No one.

57 posted on 07/28/2022 9:13:42 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: sima_yi

Just carry a generator and a gas can with you!


58 posted on 07/28/2022 9:14:07 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules
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To: FreshPrince

I tend to agree.


59 posted on 07/28/2022 9:16:10 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have driven hoppers(grainhaulers) during a few oil busts.
The moisture content is so critical, when we would haul straight out of the field to the grain elevator, the DOT would throw away the rule book for semi truck. Work as long as you can, and no overweight tickets.


60 posted on 07/28/2022 9:16:38 AM PDT by Iceclimber58
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