Agricultural Machinery Enterprises Develop Hybrid Tractors To Reduce Fuel Consumption By 25% And Adapt To Multi Scenario Operations

During the autumn harvest season, the corn fields in the Northeast Plain are bustling with activity, with tractors pulling harvesters and straw returning machines shuttling through the work. Unlike traditional diesel tractors, this year in Zhang Jianguo's 200 acre corn field in Zhaodong City, Heilongjiang Province, a hybrid tractor stands out - it produces significantly less noise during operation, with almost no black smoke visible from the exhaust pipe, and real-time display of electricity and fuel consumption data on the dashboard. This is the first oil electric hybrid tractor developed by a domestic agricultural machinery enterprise after two years of research and development. After three months of field testing in Northeast and North China, it was officially put into the market for autumn harvest this year, and the first batch of 500 units were quickly ordered by farmers.
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Previously, when using a diesel tractor, it would burn 80 liters of fuel for 10 hours a day. When oil prices rose, the cost of fuel alone was a concern. This hybrid tractor prioritizes electricity during operation, automatically switches to fuel mode when the battery level is below 20%, and can also recover energy for charging when going downhill or braking. I calculated that for the same 10 hours of operation, fuel consumption is 25% less than before. It can save 120 yuan of fuel a day and nearly 5000 yuan during the autumn harvest season. "Zhang Jianguo introduced the tractor's straw returning effect to surrounding farmers while checking it. According to the technical director of the enterprise, this hybrid tractor is equipped with a 120Ah large capacity lithium iron phosphate battery, supporting two modes of household 220V charging and field fast charging. Fast charging can replenish up to 80% in 1.5 hours, meeting the continuous operation needs for 4 hours; The power system adopts a dual drive design of "motor+diesel engine". For light load operations such as sowing and fertilizing, only the motor is used. For heavy load operations such as deep plowing and harvesting, the dual power is coordinated to ensure sufficient power.
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To meet the planting needs of different crops, the tractor also reserves 12 tool interfaces, which can be used with more than 10 types of agricultural machinery such as tillage, sowing, harvesting, and transportation. At the soybean planting base in Zhumadian, Henan, farmer Li Juan found that the uniform speed of the motor drive reduced the sowing row spacing error to 1 centimeter, and the soybean emergence rate increased by 8% compared to previous years when using it to tow the seeder; At the vegetable base in Weifang, Shandong, it is equipped with drip irrigation tape laying machines for operation. Due to low noise, it will not affect the growth environment of surrounding greenhouse vegetables. At present, the company has received more than 800 orders and plans to expand production capacity to 3000 units next year. In response to the demand for paddy field operations in the south, a more waterproof version will be developed to further expand the application scenarios of hybrid tractors.