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Most big Ag tractors start with 300 or so hp and go up from there. There must be a reason. And they generally have a flat power curve with a torque peak just off idle. In any vehicle with a transmission, power does work. You make the torque what you want with the trans. Of course the EV tractor mentioned above could easily work at 200 hp if it wanted. But the 130kWh battery would need to be much larger and heavier since it would only give less than an hour of run time and be hard on the battery.
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There is a reason battery drive heavy machines are not in wide spread use. They can't compete with the performance of liquid fuel/ ICE. But one day soon they will be much better than nothing. Up to the point where we begin to exhaust our supplies of battery materials.
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