Glen, thank you for taking my comment in the good-natured way it was intended. Yes, John Deere is being stupid about not being able to make electric powered heavy equipment. If they don't adapt they will die. I understand their fears. They have IP and Captial tied up in producing their current product line and the pivot will cost them plenty. One thing that will be a plague on the neccessary transition will be the intelectuall resources to design all the new products and factories to make all the new products that will replace the old ones. Take a tractor for instance even if you just replace the engine and fuel tank with a electric motor and a battery, that takes an engineering team spec the parts an make the new drawings and someone to build the electric motor and battery. This would be a bad design and they know it. A good design would change so much more. If you look at first generation electric cars vs electric cars today it becomes obvious that just replacing the engine and fuel tank with a motor and battery makes something that works but is much inferior to a purpose designed electric vehicle. Modern electric cars have multiple motors and the battery is integrated into the chassis much differently than the gas tank it replaces.

We are going to have a skills scarcity challenge. Just like we don't have enough doctors and nurses we will not have enough engineers and technicians to accomplish all the redesigns that are needed. We can hope AI can be like a force multiplier to spread the workload but someone needs to run the AI.

Sometimes you are wrong but most often you are right. I understand that you are more Artist, writer, poet and less a scientist. Just be careful what you repeat that you find in your travels. There is much that is distorted and flat our wrong.

I know your heart is in the right place.

TEK