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product idea: task specific vehicle

John Frum

John Frum

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Imagine an electric ATV=all terrain vehicle(think quad runner) that is also a welder.
The heart of the vehicle is an LFP battery.

Some of the primary markets for the product are farming, mining and petroleum discovery/production.

Scenario:
Its harvest time and you break the mega combine in the middle of the mega field.
You can't even get it back to the implement shed/shop without at least a couple of tack welds.
Time is money so you call the mobile welder to come to you.

Does this sound useful?
Does something like this already exist?
Does a better solution already exist?
 
Could also be done as task specific trailers for an ATV.
 
Most electric ATV UTV have around 35-50 miles range - the question is - will that be enough? How much power does welding take?

Around here I see generator welders strapped into the back of pickups. Where can you get with a ATV where a small Pickup can't go?

When farm equipment can get there - a Pickup with the conventional setup can get there.
Putting a ATV on a trailer or Pickup takes a lot of time and effort.

You competition will be electric Pickups with onboard power like the F150 lightning - you got 9.6KW of 240v in that thing. Where you can just plugin a regular grid tied welder
 
eXodus said:
Most electric ATV UTV have around 35-50 miles range - the question is - will that be enough? How much power does welding take?

Around here I see generator welders strapped into the back of pickups. Where can you get with a ATV where a small Pickup can't go?

When farm equipment can get there - a Pickup with the conventional setup can get there.
Putting a ATV on a trailer or Pickup takes a lot of time and effort.

You competition will be electric Pickups with onboard power like the F150 lightning - you got 9.6KW of 240v in that thing. Where you can just plugin a regular grid tied welder
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I think the electric pickup will win as long as it can get to combine.
Probably going to want a bunch of tools to go along with the welder anyways.
 
smoothJoey said:
I think the electric pickup will win as long as it can get to combine.
Probably going to want a bunch of tools to go along with the welder anyways.
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you need to define your usecase better.

What are you going to weld? Usually what needs to be welded in the field are huge items.
There might be the on-off cell phone tower on a mountain top where you only have small access road.
But there you might carry a battery powered Welder. (google "cordless welder")

With any business idea in technology: is it better to integrate? Or are interchangeable modules better?

The nice thing about a battery powered welder - you already got DC in any vehicle. But that should be close to the voltage you are actually welding with.

smoothJoey said:
Probably going to want a bunch of tools to go along with the welder anyways.
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that's probably the big question, welding is just the final step of preparing the welding site, you need adjust, clean, clamp and potentially paint after.
 
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