Suzanne Campbell
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405 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Suzanne Campbell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
All right.
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 €750 million staving off disaster for the next four months, might we not spend a portion of that, averting it permanently?
If oil companies are making $30 million an hour in windfall profits right now, could some of that money be taxed and put to use, getting us off diesel dependence?
The European Commission is thinking about a windfall tax.
Other European governments are subsidising electric tractors, but we are not.
James Nix is an expert in the economics of heavy vehicles.
He works with the think tank Environment and Transport in Brussels, but he knows his way around Irish farms.
I asked him, was Ireland behind the curve in adopting electric tractors?
Because the retail price of these tractors, at least the purely battery tractors, is eye-watering.
It would make people wince and farmers are not feeling rich at the moment.
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