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Rural Roundup's Andy Thompson reminisces about his recent trip to Forest Lodge where he powered his radio station with the electric tractor, how to the reduce input costs through electrification and why solar is a gateway drug for more electric machines. "Farms are businesses and people run businesses in different ways. The whole idea is to show them what I've done and they can choose whether or not they want to adopt them. It's their business."
Current events are making EVs more popular, but we've gone from a leader to a laggard and we need to start shifting the fleet to electric now; Queenstown Golf Cub tees up a good deal on solar; an Australian apartment complex switches on 250 charging points with a novel payment system; Taiga electric snowmobiles are taking over; and more efficient solar panels allow bigger systems on smaller roofs.
Read moreDownloadMike Casey, CEO of Rewiring and cherry orchardist from New Zealand who electrified all the machines on his farm. And he powers them with his own solar panels and batteries. Better machinery at a lower cost, he says.
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