In a 12 months of many developments to the PowerStar Tractor Collection, New Holland North America has now unveiled the all-new PowerStar Electro Command.
“This newest addition to our PowerStar household is redefining consolation, management and productiveness within the utility tractor phase,” says Alex Berwager, livestock and dairy enterprise supervisor for New Holland North America. “With its premier options, enhanced efficiency and Electro Command semi-powershift transmission, these are essentially the most succesful PowerStar tractors ever constructed. We consider cattle and livestock producers will really feel proper at residence within the cab of one in all these tractors, whether or not feeding their herd or within the subject making hay.”
Making its world debut on the 2025 Farm Progress Present, the PowerStar Electro Command sits on the high of the PowerStar sequence as its flagship mannequin. The brand new transmission choice presents PowerStar operators unprecedented energy, computerized transmission, elevate capability and superior consolation options.
“That is the PowerStar that bridges the hole between utility and agricultural efficiency – delivering the flexibility of a utility machine with the ability, consolation and know-how you’d anticipate from a production-class agricultural tractor,” says Lena Patton, product advertising supervisor for New Holland North America. “It’s essentially the most comfy and highest-performing tractor ever put into this sequence. Whether or not you’re within the livestock or crop phase, the PowerStar Electro Command is designed to make lengthy days within the cab really feel shorter and extra productive.”
The PowerStar Electro Command delivers critical efficiency with its utility-sized footprint. Rated at 110 and 120 horsepower, with PTO horsepower of 85 and 99, it’s appropriate for crop, dairy and normal livestock operations and excels in hay and light-weight subject work.
With a rear elevate capability of greater than 5.2 tonnes, the Electro Command has almost double the rear elevate capability in comparison with different PowerStar tractors and utility tractors accessible in the marketplace. This attribute provides operators higher functionality to haul heavier feed masses and bales than every other utility tractor. Together with utilizing R38 tires, the PowerStar Electro Command presents the bottom clearance and energy anticipated from bigger tractors with out compromising manoeuvrability.
The 2 new fashions each function a 21-gallon-per-minute (80L/min) load-sensing hydraulic pump that delivers focused energy precisely the place it’s wanted to maximise effectivity and keep gentle, exact steering. As much as three rear remotes and digital or mid-mount valves assist a variety of implements for a wide range of duties, together with feeding livestock, baling hay and spreading fertilizer.
All PowerStar Electro Command machines might be outfitted with CNH loader and clients can select a loader to fulfill their operation’s wants, making it simpler to customize the tractor to suit their workflow.
An replace that really units the PowerStar Electro Command aside is its 16×16 semi-powershift transmission, a long-requested function from PowerStar clients. In contrast to the standard 12×12 transmission or Twin Command’s excessive/low break up discovered on different PowerStar tractors, this configuration permits clutchless shifts between key ranges (A/B and C/D) and consists of as much as eight computerized gear shifts with out urgent even a button for seamless, computerized gear shifting.
This transmission know-how, well-proven on different New Holland tractor traces, is particularly designed for duties that contain frequent load modifications — like working hilly terrain — to cut back operator fatigue and enhance output consistency by offering auto modes for purposes. The transmission additionally sports activities an ECO velocity mode that will increase gasoline consumption effectivity and reduces engine noise.
The PowerStar Electro Command is accessible as a cab-only mannequin, with options and functionalities tailor-made for lengthy workdays. A newly accessible cab suspension system, paired with the air suspension seat that features fore and aft motion, absorbs shock masses and improves operator consolation by as much as 25%, in comparison with a cab with out suspension. This enhanced consolation is a welcomed attribute for these spending lengthy hours manoeuvring over tough terrain.
The tractor additionally has the choice of a suspended entrance axle. This non-obligatory function additional enhances the tractor’s experience high quality and helps keep fixed contact with the bottom. The outcome: enhanced traction and implement management that higher protects each the tractor and operator from jarring masses.
Contained in the cab, a brand new high-visibility roof panel and panoramic entrance windscreen present clear traces of sight, particularly when working a entrance loader. A brand new digital mid-mount joystick lets the operator shift gears, declutch and function the loader all from one management level to enhance effectivity and scale back pointless movement. That is the primary PowerStar mannequin to supply full joystick gear management, a function beforehand solely accessible in larger horsepower New Holland tractors.
New Holland FieldOps telematics comes normal on the Electro Command Mannequin Yr 2026 tractors. This base package deal consists of real-time location monitoring, engine efficiency monitoring and gasoline and DEF stage visibility. An non-obligatory superior telematics package deal might be added, permitting clients and/or their sellers to dive even deeper into analytics and real-time machine knowledge, accessing fault codes and working knowledge remotely for extra proactive upkeep and uptime planning.
“For many years, New Holland’s PowerStar Collection tractors have been synonymous with energy, utility and luxury. The Electro Command is constructing on that legacy and anteing up the extent of engineering and efficiency related to the PowerStar title,” Patton says.
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