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I really wish there were more tractors with more specs on them on the EValbum.com web site because there are a lot more electric tractors out there and you're right, driving in the dirt is not at all the same to driving in a parking lot.
If you need this to run all day then no, electric is not the way to go, but if a few runs to the woods is all you need then maybe it's exactly the route to go, or if you need a machine for hauling logs around closer to home then it might be ideal as well.
We have an electric forklift at work for this exact reason, we only use it for 10 minutes at a time and half the time we use it is in doors, when the battery pack on it was new it was designed for close to an 8 hour shift per charge, now it's good for half an hour at best but our old forklift took a few minutes to warm up and wouldn't always start, the electric one is much faster to use because you just get on and go, it's also much much safer because it's quite so if one person is keeping an eye on the load the person on the forklift can hear what is going on, not the case at all with an engine running.
It's also hard to compare fuel use to electrical use because with electricity it's turn off when you would otherwise be idling and it can be off going down hills, so really you would only be using electricity when you are asking it to do work.
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