KHARKIV. Oct 8 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Public joint-stock company Kharkiv Tractor Plant plans to launch mass production of electric tractors by the end of this year, Director General Vladyslav Hubin has said.
“This tractor is a joint design with AutoEnterprise company. It does not have analogs in the world. The tractor has lithium-ion batteries with a capacity of 40 kW and the electric engine of 40 hp. It takes from two to four hours to charge it. The tractor can operate for up to eight hours in the transportation mode and up to four hours in the traction mode. By the end of the year we want to start its mass production with our partners AutoEnterprise,” Hubin said at a press conference on Wednesday.
He also said that the plant is currently working on boosting the capacity of the tractor.
Hubin said that in the coming two years the plant wants to design a range of electric tractors with a capacity of 25 to 360 hp.
The presentation of the new electric tractor will be held at the AGROPORT 2015 international forum to take place in Kharkiv on October 15 through October 17.
Kharkiv Tractor Plant produces wheeled and tracked tractors, as well as road-building machinery based on tractors.
