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===Electric=== {{Main|Electric tractor}} In 1969,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Will |first=Oscar H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ITg7npppD9sC |title=Garden Tractors: Deere, Cub Cadet, Wheel Horse, and All the Rest, 1930s to Current |date=2009|publisher=Voyageur Press |isbn=978-1-61673-161-8 |pages=81β83 |language=en}}</ref> [[General Electric]] introduced the [[Elec-Trak]], the first commercial, [[electric tractor]] (electric-powered garden tractor).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Liston |first=James M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtgDAAAAMBAJ |title=Popular Mechanics |date=April 1970 |publisher=[[Hearst Magazines]] |page=120 |language=en}}</ref> The Elec-Trak was manufactured by General Electric until 1975.<ref name=":0" /> Electric tractors are manufactured by a German company, [[Fendt]], and by US companies, [[Solectrac]] and Monarch Tractor.<ref name="Gaines">{{Cite web |last=Gaines |first=Tharran |date=2021-11-28 |title=An electric tractor may be in your future |url=https://www.agriculture.com/machinery/tractors/an-electric-tractor-may-be-in-your-future |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=Successful Farming |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Weisbrod">{{Cite web |last=Weisbrod |first=Katelyn |date=2022-07-13 |title=A New Project in Rural Oregon Is Letting Farmers Test Drive Electric Tractors in the Name of Science |url=https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13072022/a-new-project-in-rural-oregon-is-letting-farmers-test-drive-electric-tractors-in-the-name-of-science/ |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=[[Inside Climate News]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Garvey |first=Scott |date=2021-02-10 |title=Development of Fendt's e100 electric tractor continues |url=https://www.grainews.ca/machinery/development-of-fendts-e100-electric-tractor-continues/ |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=Grainews |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Doll |first=Scooter |date=2022-08-09 |title=Foxconn to manufacture electric tractors for Monarch at newly acquired Lordstown facility |url=https://electrek.co/2022/08/09/foxconn-electric-tractors-monarch/ |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=Electrek |language=en-US}}</ref> [[John Deere]]'s protoype electric tractor is a plug-in, powered by an electrical cable.<ref name = "hobby20020723">{{Cite web |last=Brackney |first=Susan |date=2021-09-02 |title=Electric Tractors Are The Future Of Farming |url=https://www.hobbyfarms.com/electric-tractors-are-the-future-of-farming/ |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=Hobby Farms |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Kubota]] is prototyping an autonomous electric tractor.<ref name="Szymkowski">{{Cite web |last=Szymkowski |first=Sean |date=2020-01-29 |title=Autonomous, electric tractor could be the future face of smart farming |url=https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/autonomous-electric-tractor-future-farming/ |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=CNET |language=en}}</ref>
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