(ET) Good news, bad news

["David Roden (Akron, Ohio, USA)" <roden ald net>]

The good news is that Electric Tractor Corp. of Canada is still in 
business.

The bad news is that they've changed their product range.

ETC for some time offered the only new electric garden tractors made.  
They were sophisticated machines, with microprocessors controlling wheel 
motors for zero turning radius, and had a price tag to match:  Cdn$8000 
(well under US$6000).  There was a mower deck, and a cheaper tractor with 
conventional steering.

ETC has discontinued both the mower deck and the ZTR tractor, and has 
repositioned the conventional-steering tractor as an industrial tug.  
It's now called the "Electric Ox."

See 

     http://www.electrictractor.com/

for more information.  Oddly, all the dealers they list which have 
webpages are greenhouse supply vendors.  (??)

I suppose the person who wants a new electric tractor could still buy an 
"Electric Ox," and adapt a conventional mower deck (or a used ET deck) to 
it.  Other than that, your choices have narrowed to finding a used ET or 
converting a gas tractor.  

So it goes.


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
1991 Solectria Force 144vac
1979 General Engines ElectroPed 24vdc
1974 Honda Civic 96vdc
1970 GE Elec-trak 36 vdc