This was over a month ago, but I still think it’s fitting as an electric vehicle. Reminder that it’s possible to power cargo ships using batteries and electric motors.
This was over a month ago, but I still think it’s fitting as an electric vehicle. Reminder that it’s possible to power cargo ships using batteries and electric motors.
Intuitively, would that be a result of their primary source of propulsion being independent of fuel source? You’d need electricity for amenities and instruments, and probably a backup motor in case the wind doesn’t play along, but I genuinely have no knowledge of how much you’d need for that.
Sailboats usually motor only occasionally. Not continuously for weeks to cross an ocean. So it’s easier to not worry about range and plan around it.
Further EV sailors love that they are generating fuel out there in the ocean from regen on the prop and from solar. Remember no one will refill your diesel tanks in the middle of the ocean.
Honestly same goes for propane for cooking.
Going electric on boats removes multiple complicated and flammable systems with one.
A big battery bank, solar, electric drive and electric galley (and water maker) and you’re set. You can go off grid for as long as your food lasts.
I didn’t think of that. That makes it even better.
I’m sold. I don’t expect I’ll ever get a sailboat myself (fear of open water in multiple flavours that I’m not sure I’ll ever overcome), but if I do, Electric it will be.
That’ll be the bigger issue, considering how that food will get to the places you’d stock up. But electric trucks seem to also be a growing thing, so maybe there’s hope.