Today’s best portable power stations have progressed to the point where they can offer fairly large amounts of power. This is new, and the short video below shows how one of these portable power stations can pre-heat a 60 hp diesel tractor so it starts in cold weather. This kind of application is only recently possible because of advances in power station capacity. See what I mean in the video below.
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