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Solectrac was an American tractor manufacturer based in Santa Rosa, California.It manufactures electric tractors for agricultural uses. The tractors are made as a zero-emission alternative to diesel tractors and can be charged by renewable energy, like wind and solar, and provide all the power of a comparable diesel tractor.
The GE Elec-Trak was the first commercially produced all-electric garden tractor, made mostly between 1969 and 1975 at GE's Outdoor Power Equipment Operation under Bruce R. Laumeister. [1] The previous work of Laumeister at GE on the experimental Delta electric car that debuted in 1968 helped pave the way for the production of the Elec-Trak. [ 2 ]
An electric motor needs less maintenance than a diesel motor, which has hundreds of moving parts.It Is Powered by Household Electricity or any Electricity can offer cost savings over diesel fuel. Greenhouse gas emissions , estimated at 53 tons per year for a typical diesel tractor, are drastically reduced.
In the early 1950s M-M introduced the Uni-Tractor which was a three-wheeled powered unit used to drive other units. The concept was instead of having different tractors and harvesters, one power unit mated to the correct unit could do all the jobs a farmer needed—i.e. of as M-M sales stated "All-in-One".
1957 - started production of the first Soviet high-power industrial tractor diesel-electric drive DET-250. 1960 - Soviet Union won first place in the world to produce tractors . 1975 - came the first Soviet tractor with front cabin-industrial tractor-bulldozer T-330.
Valmet tractors at State's Rifle Factory (Valtion Kivääritehdas) in Jyväskylä, Finland in the 1950s Valmet (originally Val tion Met allitehtaat - State Metalworks) was a company formed in 1951, when the country of Finland decided to group their various factories working on war reparations to the Soviet Union under one company, Valmet .
On 3 July 1969 while Company D, 2nd Battalion was patrolling in Long Khanh Province during Operation Toan Thang III it was ambushed by the People's Army of Vietnam 33rd Regiment losing nine killed including Corporal Michael Fleming Folland who smothered an enemy hand grenade with his body, he was later posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. [25]
Stalingrad Tractor Plant in the 1930s Factory ruins in November 1942 Stalingrad Tractor Plant on a 1947 stamp. Until 1961, the plant was called the Stalingrad Tractor Plant named for F. Dzerzhinsky (Russian: Сталинградский тракторный завод им. Ф. Э. Дзержинского, Stalingradski traktorni zavod im. F.E. Dzerzhinskogo, or СТЗ, STZ).