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This Electric Tractor Might Change the Future of Farming and Food!

1The Monarch self-driving Electric Tractor will help change how our food is produced with connected data to assist farmers with maintaining crops. 00:00 – Monarch Electric Tractor 00:49 – Tractor Attachments 02:56 – How a Tractor EV Sees People and Crops 03:46 – Counter Balance Electric Battery 04:17 – Electric Tractor Specs, Charge Time, Horsepower,…

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1The Monarch self-driving Electric Tractor will help change how our food is produced with connected data to assist farmers with maintaining crops.

00:00 – Monarch Electric Tractor
00:49 – Tractor Attachments
02:56 – How a Tractor EV Sees People and Crops
03:46 – Counter Balance Electric Battery
04:17 – Electric Tractor Specs, Charge Time, Horsepower, EV Transmission, Cost
04:59 – Utility Space
05:18 – How an Electric Tractor Communicates
06:32 – Controls
07:56 – Why Autonomy for a Tractor
10:07 – Why Buy an Electric Self-Driving Tractor?
12:27 – Other Electric Tractor Companies, Solectrac, John Deere, Ztractor

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  1. Michael Taylor

    June 11, 2022 at 1:41 pm

    Very interesting. I would like to have seen a comparison of the price for the Monarch and that of a similarly capable ordinary tractor.

  2. Kjay Chambers

    June 11, 2022 at 1:43 pm

    Sounds like it’s going to be a subscription-based service

  3. ٰ ٰ

    June 11, 2022 at 1:57 pm

    Thank you for chapters

  4. detritus23

    June 11, 2022 at 1:58 pm

    With diesel at $6+ per, the ROI may become more compelling (despite subsidies for fuel for agricultural purposes). From Monarch’s perspective, I see the real value in the sale/resale of the data gathered from the install base. Commodities traders and agricultural arbitrageurs would pay for that data for its predictive value.

    On the other side of it. If they are going to give control of these devices to the cloud, security is going to be a necessity. It is already bad enough that many heavy vehicles use “common keys”, but imagine if they can be driven from across the planet?

  5. David Best

    June 11, 2022 at 2:00 pm

    I was waiting to see it back a trailer under a shelter.

  6. in Valhalla神様

    June 11, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    Repairability, access to data, and portability of data are the biggest concerns.

  7. Sudipto Kumar

    June 11, 2022 at 2:19 pm

    Finally electric power tractor 😜😜😜😜

  8. Troy Howard

    June 11, 2022 at 2:36 pm

    OMG.. I love it. I’m a city kid and see the writing on the wall about our farming future. It’s very bright!

  9. SkidMarks

    June 11, 2022 at 2:39 pm

    That’s an ugly tractor, Case IH has a vastly superior design

  10. tang fish

    June 11, 2022 at 2:57 pm

    Perfect use case for autonomy. Great story.

  11. youxkio

    June 11, 2022 at 3:01 pm

    AI is almost here doing the food for us.

  12. youxkio

    June 11, 2022 at 3:05 pm

    The size of those tractors is perfect for fitting in the corridors, in between the lines of plants, in Agrivoltaics.

  13. Dick Riggles

    June 11, 2022 at 3:24 pm

    This looks like another EV vaporware scam.

  14. Zack

    June 11, 2022 at 3:34 pm

    “Yes that’ll be $1,299 to replace one sensor, not including taxes or labour”

  15. S J

    June 11, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    COOLEY!!!!!! HE’S THE BEST!!!!!!

  16. Regis Philbin *THE LEGEND*

    June 11, 2022 at 4:32 pm

    Hiring people to do other chores and leaving the higher paying, higher stress jobs to the tractors, is pretty compelling.

  17. Tim Twining

    June 11, 2022 at 5:49 pm

    What an excellent exploration for a much needed application of the technology. It is so interesting to envision the farm as a place about renewable energy, robotics and cloud utilization for a majority of all of the tasking to plant, grow and harvest crops! Really intense idea. My father worked farms that were served with horse drawn plows and heshers. Wild to see and think of this!!!

  18. Danielle White

    June 11, 2022 at 6:56 pm

    Teenage me would have loved the automation. I looked forward to school starting in the fall so I could get a break from the farm work – dairy farm and I was assigned all of the field work for hay once I could reach the tractor controls.

  19. SS S

    June 11, 2022 at 7:51 pm

    This makes a lot more sense instead of trying to make autonomous cars.

  20. Annoying Neighbor

    June 11, 2022 at 8:38 pm

    What a great use case. I wonder if farmers will fee the same.

  21. D T

    June 11, 2022 at 9:05 pm

    You forgot farmers and men like to fix there own machines by hand by themselves

  22. Iam aKINupe

    June 11, 2022 at 10:43 pm

    Just had to throw a final jab to electric cars and their owners. Smh.

  23. t.s. fleming

    June 11, 2022 at 11:10 pm

    Battery life and recharge time will be a hindrance. The farmers around me work sun up past sunset during planting and harvest time.

    • cmb271

      June 12, 2022 at 12:35 am

      this would serve ideally in the niche of less then 8 hours of work and I wouldn’t doubt adding batteries to the impliments would help push the daily hours of work you could get out of the rig

    • blueisthecolor

      June 13, 2022 at 12:19 pm

      The biggest thing is autonomous rather than electric or battery.

  24. Uncle Phil

    June 12, 2022 at 12:19 am

    Yawn. John Deere has a real sized autonomous tractor going into production. Autonomous tractors are easy compared to cars. Most tractors now have GPS and they literally tell the driver where to steer, the drivers just follow directions. Autonomy is just automating the steering and adding collision avoidance at some level. This tiny little toy is going to be useful where, exactly? It’s not 1930, you know.

  25. Danner Banks

    June 12, 2022 at 1:53 am

    I love this. Seems like a way easier problem to solve than moving people around

  26. tom williams

    June 12, 2022 at 3:35 am

    Where is the loader what’s the lifting cap. whats the hydraulic operation pressures and speed! What’s its weight? I see this being out of order 90% of the time!

  27. palladini971

    June 12, 2022 at 3:36 am

    My biggest question, does it have a cup holder?

  28. Jeff Adams

    June 12, 2022 at 3:56 am

    repairability is important on a farm…what are there plans on right to repair ?

  29. jctai100

    June 12, 2022 at 4:03 am

    This was really fascinating Brian, actually makes me kind of excited about the future.

  30. David Willard

    June 12, 2022 at 6:42 am

    Waiting for the HYDROGEN ! TRACTOR ! To come out ! If J.C.B ! Make that !. Too !

  31. E. v. K.

    June 12, 2022 at 9:12 am

    That’s great
    Another Work our Machines do for us 🦾

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    June 12, 2022 at 10:44 am

    Interesting concept I suppose it will put more people out of work!

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  34. Lukas Paulenas

    June 12, 2022 at 12:48 pm

    Mr. Cooley, hope you’re healthy, your skin tone in this video is mighty yellowish-green….or maybe it was a bad spray tan. Awesome video, love this deeper dive into the topic of an EV Tractor

  35. George h

    June 12, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    Why do they always have to bundle “autonomous” with “electric”? I’m betting the EV part of this has some benefit, but the autonomous part will be glitchy and full of faults.

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    June 12, 2022 at 4:25 pm

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  38. undertow

    June 13, 2022 at 12:52 am

    Automated farming. Sounds like a big money maker. I hope it doesn’t lead to private equity swooping in to buy every farm. Auto tractors mass farming with poor land management and a couple companies producing 90% of what’s grown.

  39. Cesar Trujillo

    June 14, 2022 at 6:15 am

    Wow. I really like him. Great interview and reporting, as per usual.

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    I miss all the old CNET crew. I’m really glad Brian is still rolling. His stories and delivery never fail to disappoint.

  41. B C

    June 16, 2022 at 2:12 am

    Awesome, thanks!

  42. Steven

    June 16, 2022 at 12:00 pm

    The price seems about the same as a Kubota L6060.

  43. June 16, 2022 at 2:55 pm

    I would like to buy an electric tractor, without the autonomous tech part, just electric. That’s enough.
    Nice video. 🙏🏼👍🏼👍🏼

  44. Bryan Norris

    June 16, 2022 at 2:57 pm

    By wire over the cloud, I wonder how it works in the farms nestled in the hollows and coves of my area where cell phone coverage may be great or not covered by any provider at all.

  45. Randall Smerna

    June 16, 2022 at 3:13 pm

    This push for autonomy and automation is going to come at a very high price to the labor industry that will still need both housing and food.
    The government already knows this and is taking advantage of it by making people dependent on the government – which makes them controllable.

  46. David McCluskey

    June 16, 2022 at 8:32 pm

    Great reporting👎, I’m glad you took the time to ask that hard hitting question that affects all farmers now when it comes to John Deere equipment and this right to repair. I’m guessing since this a Tesla person who started his company slim chance famers can fix their own Monarch tractor. Is Monarch going to provide parts/manuals and software updates to owners?

  47. Sim Williams

    June 16, 2022 at 10:40 pm

    Keep thinking that

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