Design and experiment on walking vehicle driven by electric for farming

Nowadays, most of the people who live in rural areas in China are weak physique., so transportations on roads between fields are difficult. the walking vehicle driven by electric for farming was specially designed for Chinese farmers. The vehicle can be driven by both electric power and electric-man power. Owing to the special mechanical structure, it can be driven with 3 wheels on a wide road and one wheel on a narrow road. Tests conducted on the rural road showed that the vehicle can be driven through 120 mm wide roads and climb 13° slopes by electric power. It can even climb 17° slopes with electric-man power. Its speed can be adjusted by the operator. The maximum speed under the rating load on a flat road is 2.8m/s, roughly as fast as jogging.