Suzanne Campbell
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Bearing in mind that the rule of thumb here is โฌ1,000 will get you one horsepower in most tractors, give me an idea of the price range for these hybrid tractors.
Zoomland are targeting between โฌ500 and โฌ750 per horsepower.
Bear in mind, the technology is advanced and there's a lot of moving pieces in it.
Okay, so you're pricing these to turn people's heads.
That 160 horsepower hybrid engine, how much is that going to be costing in Ireland?
I'll be north of โฌ130,000.
That's very, very competitively priced, really, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK, and one last brief question.
These are all hybrid engines.
How far away is the day of the entirely battery-powered tractor that will do the 18-hour day?
However, Zoomline are going this hybrid road, and it looks like, certainly for the short to medium term, that is their route to market.
Rob McNaughton from Zoom Lion, thank you very much.
Pure electric 400 horsepower tractor, still a good deal away, but there is an awful lot of options that do actually exist.
The technology is there, it's getting better all the time.
What about the price of the other ones that we were talking about earlier on?
Should they be incentivised?
If we can spend โฌ750 million staving off disaster for the next four months, might we not spend a portion of that, averting it permanently?