While electric drives are already state-of-the-art in the automotive industry, internal combustion engine drives are the first election in agricultural vehicles. So it is an important step to prepare the market for electric drives on the way to the fully electric tractor. It is advantageous, as in the automotive industry, to further open the market through hybrid construction. On the one hand, for example, by downsizing the internal combustion engine and by integrating a parallel battery electric power train, the current vehicle structure can be maintained. The customer has visually a standard tractor on his farm and can work with it without restrictions in comparison to today's tractors. At the same time benefits from fuel savings by recovering braking energy and later supplying this energy for additional electrical power boosters can be used. If the market is fundamentally sensitized to electrification through such drive concepts, further steps can be taken towards integrating a fully electric tractor, where the chosen approach is of corresponding importance. Since today's electrical concepts strive as far as possible to maintain current components such as transmissions or support structures, they are only seen as functional test vehicles in a first step. For a serious enforcement of the electric drives, the tractor in its structure is fundamentally questionable. Only a complete reassessment of the market requirements enables a vehicle to be set up that enables the integration of the nacessary components while at the same time guaranteeing the customer the required performance.
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