Self-driving tractor could plough fields at night with no human supervision

Self-driving tractors which are powered by hydrogen and controlled by a mobile app could plough the world's farmland under one Italian designer's plans. The remote-controlled Valtra H202 tractors could take to the fields at night with no human supervision from around 2040. Designer Lorenzo Mariotti said the tractor would be charged on site with plugs or wireless inductive charging and said hydrogen could be produced using methane from the farm. The tractor's autonomous driving would allow it to repeat complex and repetitive tasks around the clock, he said. Self-driving tractors which are powered by hydrogen and controlled by a mobile app could plough the world's farmland under one Italian designer's plans Hydrogen fuel cells create electricity to power a battery and motor by mixing hydrogen and oxygen in specially treated plates, which are combined to form the fuel cell stack.