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by pedrocr 1429 days ago
We have a Toro Workman electric cart on our small farm. It's extremely useful even while being quite basic and powered by lead-acid batteries. We bought it used a while ago but a new one would cost 15k€. The new ones are a little nicer but still mostly unchanged over the years. John Deere sells a Gator that's almost the same thing. I'm definitely hoping some of these manufacturers shake up this market. Hopefully the small tractor and skid steer markets as well although that's quite a bit more complex because of managing the attachments. Battery weight is irrelevant and so is range for most people, so lead-acid is fine for all these applications. LFP can be a bonus though. A few things have started popping up but nothing really good. A lot of the time it's people attaching an electric motor to an overly complicated transmission designed for the shortcomings of gas/diesel motors.