
Torqeedo Deep Blue Battery 80
Torqeedo announced a new 80-kWh battery option for its Deep Blue electric drives—the Deep Blue Battery 80, which has twice the capacity of the previous generation of Deep Blue batteries… Read more »
Torqeedo announced a new 80-kWh battery option for its Deep Blue electric drives—the Deep Blue Battery 80, which has twice the capacity of the previous generation of Deep Blue batteries… Read more »
New York is making noise about going quiet on the East River with a ferry service that is electric with foil assist. Partnering with the Swedish company Green City Ferries… Read more »
An Iowa couple reviews the first 3,000 nautical miles on Electric Philosophy, their custom built solar-electric catamaran, and their preparations for an off-grid adventure cruise to high latitudes. We commissioned… Read more »
An electric boat with pedals? That’s one of the latest entries in the category “sustainable vessel propulsion.” Mermade, the German builder of the craft, calls it Seacycler and defines it… Read more »
Electric propulsion might be the preferred technology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, but it is by no means a panacea. Principals in high-fuel-consumption applications such as… Read more »
A yacht designer and a boatbuilder walk into a bar. Says the yacht designer: “You might live on a beautiful island with a barn full of boats, but you can’t… Read more »
Powerboat racing on foils and electricity is not new, as the annual Energy Boat Challenge in Monte Carlo has proven since 2014. But as the goal of getting the most… Read more »
Torqeedo, now part of Deutz AG, the world’s oldest engine company, is expanding its line of electric-propulsion systems to commercial passenger ferries. Earlier this year, the company announced a new… Read more »
A new ocean research vessel will run on “green” methanol (meaning CO2-neutral), replacing the 30m (98.4‘) research cutter Uthörn, launched in 1982. The keel for the new 35m (114.8‘) vessel… Read more »
Hydrogen is heralded as the next fuel in the energy transition, but as boatbuilders gear up to bring the new high-pressure gas on board, availability, economy, and the true ecological… Read more »