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Philip Matty

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
51 total appearances

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CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

And the greatness with stopping and starting is we can then actually use that energy, recuperate that energy to put it back into the battery to then last, you know, last longer for those tasks.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

Now, make no mistake, you're not going to be seeing this tractor on plows and power harrows and doing heavy work.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

heavy duty tasks.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

This is a light duty routine practice.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

Not as of yet, but we are sort of in an open trial period with a couple of our customers just to see how we're getting along with it.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

Base retail price on this product is โ‚ฌ235,000.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

And we are going to be launching it actually in Ireland in the ICE Construction Expo, which is...

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

It's around middle of May, not far from Dublin.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

So if you want to come and see yourself, this very tractor will be there.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

Yes, and it's available to buy now.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

Obviously, there's been a lot of research, a lot of development gone into this.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

Obviously, buying the battery is a lot more of an investment than buying the diesel engine.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

So hence the retail price of this machine.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

And it's not just a diesel price thing.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

You know, farmers across the UK and Ireland are being targeted on reducing their emissions for milk production.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

Well, this this is also a way of doing that.

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

You know, if you have access to solar panels or wind energy, you know,

CountryWide
Fendt battery tractor

and you can charge this tractor off of that, then you are bringing your emissions level down, which obviously then results in an incentive for the people going for milk contracts and things like that.

CountryWide
Countrywide Full Episode 18/04/2026

Yeah.