It's hard to believe that an internationally renowned company like John Deere would be led down such a dubious technical route: electric powered heavy agricultural equipment. Consider that a battery for a typical electric car weights half a ton. Imagine it would need to weigh for a machine that weighs over 25 tons. Perhaps it's just lip service to placate idiot politicians and activist groups. I wonder if Caterpillar is thinking along the same lines: powering its massive excavators with batteries? Here's a post I found at Facebook from Will F. Leeman and that I'm having a hard time to believe it's true: by Pierre L. Gosselin
https://notrickszone.com/2022/07/08/john-deere-engineers-really-aiming-to-build-battery-powered-harvesters
Poster Comment:
One of the worst soil conditions for growing food is compaction which is caused by heavy machinery. Compaction makes it impossible for soil biology to breathe. If they cannot breathe, they cannot deliver minerals to your plants in exchange for sugars made in the leaves during photosynthesis. And they breathe out carbon dioxide which feeds plants and makes them grow. Heavy batteries are a bad idea even for small tractors.