
Electric Tractor Guide
Wondering if an electric tractor is right for you?
Understand what’s available for your business or farm with this MK-V electric tractor guide.

The best electric tractor manufacturers are providing industry professionals with the equipment they need to do their job more efficiently and profitably. Yet for many, the idea of adopting electrification can feel risky. There is sizeable variability in the EV tractor market and convenient access to information can help you determine which electric tractor is best aligned with your business goals and long-term equipment needs.
EV Tractor Basics
Electric Tractor vs. Diesel Tractor
Understand what the future of EV tractors means for your farm.
Tractors are essential machinery across an array of industries, playing a key role in tasks ranging from crop cultivation to harvest to dairy operations as well as broad acre mowing. The diesel vs. electric tractor debate continues to spark intense discussions in the agricultural world, especially as electric tractors become more sophisticated and bring tangible gains to farms and land management operations. Investing in any type of tractor represents a financial commitment and deciding between diesel and electric tractors can impact a farm’s success and longevity.
EV tractors represent an increasingly more visible sector in the tractor market. While battery tractor technology is not yet practical for large, industrial tractors used on row crops like corn, wheat, and soy, farmers and land managers have more choices among electric, compact tractors suitable for specialty farms. These are the farms that grow nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables. Dairies, solar farms, and municipalities are among the many other industries that deploy compact tractors to get work done.
Deciding if, when, and how to incorporate an EV tractor into your machinery ecosystem is an important decision. In addition to being a 100% electric tractor, Monarch’s MK-V is also smart and driver-optional, all of which bring additional value to a farm. Learn what electric tractor manufacturers are striving to provide farmers and gain insights on what operations with an EV tractor look like.
The Future of EV Tractors in Agriculture
The tractor is the most important vehicle in the world, how is it keeping up with challenges and demands?
Farming Technology Adoption Guide
Throughout the history of agriculture, new tools, technologies, and innovations have driven productivity. What are the risks and rewards?
Diesel vs. Electric Tractors
Contrast and compare the pros and cons between diesel vs. electric tractors.
Electric Tractors in Farming: 15 Benefits
Find out if making the switch is right for you.
Electric Tractor Implement Compatibility
Bridging today’s AgTech and workforce with that of the future.

Electric tractors are often described as technologically advanced machinery that is helping bring agriculture into the future. But farmers and land managers must work with what they have available today, and that includes today’s implements. Plus, payback on the electric tractor price gets better the more it’s used, so buyers need to feel confident they can get thousands of usage hours out of their tractor. When researching the best electric tractor for your agribusiness, it’s critical to know if it can work with your current ecosystem of implements as well as the next generation of implements and electric farm equipment.
What does that mean? Tractors need to do the difficult, hard work they have always done. That’s the baseline. They also need to minimize the risk of adoption and enable a farm to take advantage of technological advancements and the increased efficiency and profitability that comes with innovation. For instance, because Monarch’s MK-V technology platform, Wingspan Ag Intelligence™ (WingspanAI™) is built with an open architecture, other manufacturers can develop implements and apps that run off WingspanAI, much like a developer creates an app that can be used with a smartphone. In spring 2025, Monarch released its first digital implement in partnership with another AgTech manufacturer. This implement collects detailed, plant-level information while the tractor performs routine tasks such as mowing or seeding, resulting in additional savings and gains for a farm. This is on top of the value a farm is already realizing through its deployment of an electric compact tractor.
MK-V Implement Compatibility
Get the specifications of compatible implements and estimated run times. Don't see something listed? Talk to a Monarch Specialist!
Monarch + Scout Partnership Brings Digital Implement to Market
Optimize the value of each tractor pass, enabling the tractor to perform double-duty work.
10 Metrics to Track Your MK-V's ROI
Electrification goes beyond fuel savings. Get the whole savings picture with an electric tractor that's also smart.
Serious Savings: 4,000 Hours in Two Years
Read about the first MK-V Dairy tractor to log 4,000 hours in just two years and what that means for tractor price payback.
Electric Tractor Battery
Is an electric tractor battery reliable?
Electric tractor battery safety and reliability are a top-of-mind question for many who are considering an electric tractor. There are several elements at play here. Battery management systems affect a tractor battery’s overall safety and runtime. At the same time, fuel savings is one of the many benefits of using an electric tractor. But is the savings worth it after factoring in charging equipment and the cost of electricity if a farm doesn’t have access to renewable energy? In a word, yes. By quite a bit. However, total savings will vary from state-to-state depending on the cost of electricity.
Get the basics on what is a battery management system, how long an EV battery can last, time to charge, and economics of charging an EV tractor. Explore customer stories on electrification and use of batteries that includes details on effort and savings.
Battery Tractor Range & Powerwall
An energy storage device for the farm or land management enterprise.

A tractor battery that does double duty? When comparing an electric tractor vs. diesel tractor, the ability for an electric tractor to store and transport power emerges as a useful benefit across all markets. Not all electric tractors are designed to be an energy storage device, but supported with an advanced battery management system, the MK-V is engineered to bring power where it's needed — in fields, the rows, or even the barn. Farmers have used it to power harvest lighting towers, welders, pruning saws, and even home appliances during power outages. As a compact tractor, the MK-V can navigate narrow rows in vertically-trellised farms, orchards, dairies, and more.
There’s a savings benefit to having an electric tractor with exportable power. Dynamic grid pricing is a method of charging different rates for electricity at different times of the day and year based on usage demand. In areas with dynamic grid pricing, an electric tractor owner can charge the tractor during low-demand periods when electricity costs tend to be less. Now imagine EV charging technology that responds to dynamic grid signals. Owners can realize even more energy savings by charging when rates are less, then using that lower-cost energy to power electric machinery - tractors, tools, and equipment - during the day when rates are higher.
Monarch Tractor, Gridtractor & Valley Clean Energy Partnership
Learn about the Rural Electrification and Charging Technology (REACT) Project and it's turning effiencient power into savings.
Exportable Power MK-V Training Video
Watch a 40-second video and learn how the MK-V brings power to where you need it and keeps it simple to use.
Vineyard Uses Exportable Power to Save Quality of Vine Block
Listen to a customer! When a vineyard wanted to transform a block of chardonnay from spur pruned to cane pruned, the MK-V played a key role.
Energy Independence
An MK-V is a first step to sensible, profitable, energy independence.
Modern agriculture is highly dependent on external inputs. Not only does paying for diesel, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, and even seeds every year cut into a farm’s profits, but unexpected market fluctuations can derail even the most carefully planned annual budget. Electrification removes a large variable from that equation, helping a farm shift from fossil fuels to the grid, opening opportunities for renewable energy sources and on-farm energy storage devices in the form of a power wall. The MK-V is a good first step because it can store power and export it across a farm or land management enterprise. Through the use of storage batteries, some farms are even turning energy into a second income stream by selling unused power back to the grid, while generating a free source of energy for their electric machinery.
There’s another element to consider. Electrification helps make sustainable farming operations both attainable and profitable. With a diesel tractor, controlling weeds with mowing represents increased fuel costs and toxic diesel emissions, negatively affecting regional air quality (reducing plant health) and increasing particulate emissions, contributing to extreme weather. Mowing with toxic herbicides requires fewer passes, but these chemicals kill the soil biome. Low organic matter in the soil increases erosion risk, doesn't hold moisture as well for the plants, and has a lower nutrient profile. An electric tractor helps make zero-emission mowing an affordable option.
How the MK-V Is Supporting Farmers During Wildfire Season
In an industry known for its challenges, wildfire season is an especially perilous time of year for farmers.
Sustainable Agriculture as a Business Model
Sustainability protects livelihoods and food security by improving profitability and the health of the land for future generations.
Discover a 100% Electric Farm
The owner of the world's first 100% electric farm opens up and discusses, strategy, challenges, farm resiliency, and profits.
Castoro Cellars Strengthens Sustainability Program with MK-V
When Castoro Cellars started in 1983, it was already farming for the future.

Operating an Electric Tractor
What’s it like to operate an electric tractor?
Learn the fundamentals of operating an MK-V with these training tutorials. Also available in Spanish.
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Electric Tractor Customer Voices & Reviews
Customers share their experiences with electrification and the MK-V and MK-V Dairy tractor.
In addition to having their product on the market, leading tractor manufacturers have customers eager to share their experiences. Learn what farmers and land managers are saying about deploying the MK-V and MK-V Dairy in their fields and feed lanes, and what it’s like to be supported by Monarch Tractor.