In early July, Beijing Ruishen Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. brought a new model of agricultural drone: the oil-electric hybrid agricultural drone landed in Japan, and attracted a large number of local agricultural sites in Hokkaido, Nagoya, Saitama, Gunma, and other places in Japan. It also attracted a lot of drone pilots to experience and caused a warm response.
The oil-electric hybrid agricultural drone carried by Ruishen Company is Tiantu M4H, which can carry 10L pesticide liquid, fly for 25 minutes, and consume 2.5L oil for one hour. The M4H is designed in a backpack style with a total weight of 13kg and a wing that can be folded for easy carrying. The M4H is stable in flight, flexible in operation, safe and reliable in use, and praised by Japanese drone pilots.
Farmers have a high level of awareness of agricultural drones and are very recognized for the effects of drones’ spraying. The Yamaha Plant Protection Unmanned Helicopter has a large number of fans in Japan. However, the plant protection unmanned helicopter obviously has its shortcomings: the complex structure, the high cost, and extremely high maintenance cost.
With the presence of multi-rotor drones, Japan’s Yamaha status began to be tangibly challenged. The multi-rotor drone is light in weight, easy to carry and operate, high in safety, and has a very low price compared to helicopters. More and more Japanese farmers are turning their attention to multi-rotor agricultural drones.
The promotion of oil-electric agricultural drones in Japan has a natural advantage. First of all, the Japanese domestic drone pilots are aging, most of them are elderly people over the age of 60, and the requirements for lightness of equipment are high. Secondly, Japanese agricultural machinery generally uses two-stroke engines. Japanese farmers are very familiar with the use and maintenance of two-stroke engines and are easy to use. Thirdly, Japan's agricultural mechanization is high, especially large plots basically all mechanized, and demand for oil and chemical agricultural drones is strong.
The above advantages of the oil-electric hybrid agricultural drones made the M4H hybrid electric planting drones jointly developed by Northern Tiantu and Ruishen Airlines debut in Japan, which deeply attracted the attention of Japanese farmers.
M4H is jointly built by China's well-known plant protection manufacturer, Northern Tiantu, and China's leading oil and electric hybrid manufacturer, Ruishen Power. The whole machine adopts a new design concept, which makes the body lighter and the structural strength more stable. The M4H is equipped with a hybrid electric power system developed by Ruishen Power for the plant protection market, which makes the machine farewell to the complicated battery replacement and charging work, greatly improving work efficiency and saving operating costs.
During the flight show in Japan, Japanese drone pilots said that it is expected that the M4H hybrid scheme will soon become the mainstream model for replacing large unmanned helicopters for large field operations.
