In recent years, with the promotion of manufacturers, farmers, and plant protection teams at all levels, agricultural drones have become more and more popular and look beautiful, but employees have reported that they are not making too much money. Why?.
From the UAV industry level, it mainly due to immature products.
Taking MG-1P agricultural UAV currently launcheby DJI as an example, the nominal drug load is 10L, the nominal no-load duration is 20 minutes, the full life time is only 9 minutes, and the actual effective operation time is more than 10 minutes. Each vehicle cannot be sprayed on 20 acres.
Although the oil-driven UAV has good practicability, large load, long life, easy access to fuel and lower direct power cost than electric agricultural UAV, but its disadvantages are also obvious.
In April this year, veteran Guangzhou UAV manufacturer Walkera officially launched the AG15 series of fuel-electric hybrid agricultural UAV, taking the lead in applying fuel-electric hybrid power technology to agricultural drones. The operation time of this machine is up to 57 minutes and the drug load is 15L. The efficiency of the model is far higher than that of the electric multi-rotor products in the market.
Walkera's mix of oil and electricity is just the beginning of the industry. It can be predicted that the oil-electric hybrid multi-rotor agricultural UAV will gradually take the place of the current electric multi-rotor products and become the mainstream of the multi-rotor agricultural UAV. In the near future, the multi-rotary-wing agricultural UAV will last more than one hour, with a drug load of more than 30L, which will become a truly efficient agricultural machinery.