Posted by ss55 on December 05, 2017 at 12:39:47 from (63.147.218.40):
In Reply to: Gas vs Diesel posted by Oliver 500 Wa on December 04, 2017 at 23:53:35:
There market may be ready for gasoline tractors, especially if the cost can be 10 to 20 percent less than a comparable diesel, but there is some momentum to overcome too. The development cost of a new engines and the cost of a new manufacturing lines to produce engines needs to be spread spread across a high volume of engines to be eeek out a return on the massive $10 million to $100 million investment. Production volumes need to be a quarter million unit and higher. The volume of farm machinery sold in the USA has not been high enough to justify AG-use only engines since the late 1970's. Agriculture now shares the same engines that the construction industry uses. As the market for gasoline engines expands in other industries (consumer products, light trucks and pickups?) those engines may well be adoptable to low-hour agricultural applications too.
Remember when automotive gasoline engines were common in combines and other self propelled harvesters?
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