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 section,” 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 imagine cattle and livestock producers will really feel proper at house within the cab of considered one of these tractors, whether or not feeding their herd or within the discipline making hay.”
Making its international 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 affords PowerStar operators unprecedented energy, automated 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 facility, consolation and know-how you’d count on from a production-class agricultural tractor,” says Lena Patton, product advertising and marketing 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 section, 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 basic livestock operations and excels in hay and lightweight discipline work.
With a rear elevate capability of greater than 5.2 tonnes, the Electro Command has practically double the rear elevate capability in comparison with different PowerStar tractors and utility tractors out there in the marketplace. This attribute offers operators better functionality to haul heavier feed masses and bales than every other utility tractor. Together with utilizing R38 tires, the PowerStar Electro Command affords the bottom clearance and energy anticipated from bigger tractors with out compromising manoeuvrability.
The 2 new fashions each characteristic 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 preserve gentle, exact steering. As much as three rear remotes and digital or mid-mount valves assist a variety of implements for quite a lot of duties, together with feeding livestock, baling hay and spreading fertilizer.
All PowerStar Electro Command machines may be geared up with CNH loader and prospects can select a loader to fulfill their operation’s wants, making it simpler to customize the tractor to suit their workflow.
An replace that actually units the PowerStar Electro Command aside is its 16×16 semi-powershift transmission, a long-requested characteristic from PowerStar prospects. Not like the standard 12×12 transmission or Twin Command’s excessive/low cut 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 automated gear shifts with out urgent even a button for seamless, automated gear shifting.
This transmission know-how, well-proven on different New Holland tractor traces, is particularly designed for duties that contain frequent load adjustments — 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 gas consumption effectivity and reduces engine noise.
The PowerStar Electro Command is obtainable as a cab-only mannequin, with options and functionalities tailor-made for lengthy workdays. A newly out there 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 characteristic additional enhances the tractor’s trip high quality and helps preserve fixed contact with the bottom. The consequence: 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 characteristic beforehand solely out there in increased horsepower New Holland tractors.
New Holland FieldOps telematics comes commonplace on the Electro Command Mannequin Yr 2026 tractors. This base bundle consists of real-time location monitoring, engine efficiency monitoring and gas and DEF stage visibility. An non-obligatory superior telematics bundle may be added, permitting prospects and/or their sellers to dive even deeper into analytics and real-time machine information, accessing fault codes and working information 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 identify,” Patton says.
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