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  • December 2010 Issue
  • Story by Geraldine Warner
  • Electric vehicle has power

    Karen Lewis and Gwen Hoheisel (standing) demonstrate how an electric utility vehicle can be used for herbicide spraying with the WeedSeeker technology. Karen Lewis and Gwen Hoheisel, Washington State University Extension educators, say an electric all-terrain vehicle that they’re evaluating has met or exceeded all their expectations in research plots. The vehicle was purchased for from Barefoot Motors of Ashland, Oregon, which is one of the few ATV suppliers to use lithium iron phosphate batteries. It has an 80-volt battery pack. Lewis and Hoheisel have used the vehicle extensively for trials with the WeedSeeker technology and also used it to […]

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