Re: (ET) freepower systems

[Bob Murcek <rjmurcek yahoo com>]

Might they have started with a drivetrain for an ICE tractor and just put a motor on it?  Fabbing the PTO and hitch stuff from scratch might be tough for a start-up.

From: RJ Kanary <rjkanary consolidated net>
To: Pieter Litchfield <pieter_litch yahoo com>; elec-trak cosmos <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: (ET) freepower systems

                        Took the words right off my keyboard. <G>From the sound of it there is a non-Apollo Era PWM control system present.Why waste valuable watt hours turning them into heat through a lossy drive train? On a side point, that website needs some serious proofreading. Hope they do make some market penetration.

RJ

Pieter Litchfield wrote:

OK - why would you put a hydrostatic drive on an electric motor?  You can vary the speed of the motor directly (like the ET).  Hydrostatic drive will soak up a lot of power all by itself.

 

From: Kim Petty [mailto:kim coveside net]
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 10:06 AM
To: elec >> elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: (ET) freepower systems

 

Have you seen this one yet?    I came across this electric tractor today in the Farm Show Magazine. I had not seen this one before. It appears to use cat 1 3pt. attachments and has a PTO. I like the pto! The base price is$13,500, the price with the solar roof option is around $16,000. They say with state and federal rebates and tax credits it should cost $10,000. I hope they make a go of it.  Kimball

http://www.freepowersys.com/index.htm

 

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