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WaVeS 12 – electric boat news and updates

October 21, 2023October 22, 2023 Jeff Butler 407 Views 0 Comments Flux, Marian, MEBC, Molabo, Pulling-e, X Shore

Plugboats WAVES (Watts, Amps, Volts, Electrons) is an occasional collection of electric boat news and electric boating items that we

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Batteries Cargo Ships Commercial 

Swappable shipping container batteries help Heineken go green

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 Jeff Butler 2080 Views 0 Comments Canals, Engie, Lithium, Netherlands, The Gussies, Wartsila

Zero Emission Services has a clever idea for electric propulsion: shipping container batteries. Filling a standard container with batteries means

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Commercial Cargo Ships 

Hydrogen vessel’s wingsails now on cargo ship

October 10, 2019 Jeff Butler 7033 Views 0 Comments France, French Guiana, OceanWings, The Gussies

The OceanWings system pioneered on the research vessel Energy Observer is going to be an essential part of a new

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Commercial Batteries Cargo Ships Ferries Hybrid 

Electric ships make Canada’s national news

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 Jeff Butler 5152 Views 0 Comments ABB, Ballard, Canada, Corvus, The Gussies

The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), which is Canada’s national broadcaster in both television and radio (similar to the BBC in

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Cargo Ships Commercial 

1,000 tractors to be shipped across Atlantic – by sail

April 25, 2019August 15, 2019 Jeff Butler 4337 Views 0 Comments Benneteau, France, Neoline, Sails, The Gussies, USA

France’s Manitou Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of heavy equipment vehicles, has signed on to ship 1,000 of

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Cargo Ships Commercial Cruise Ships 

E-motors make revolutionary survival craft possible

April 2, 2019November 18, 2020 Jeff Butler 4684 Views 0 Comments NorSafe, The Gussies, Torqeedo, Verhoef, Viking

If you are not involved in the business of how to get people off a distressed cruise or cargo ship,

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Commercial Cargo Ships World Firsts 

World’s 1st all-electric oil carrier

March 27, 2019October 28, 2019 Jeff Butler 5412 Views 0 Comments Japan, The Gussies

Asahi Tanker and shipbroking agent Exeno-Yamamizu Corporation are working together to build the world’s first all-electric zero emission bunker tanker.

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Zero carbon ship resumes global research mission

March 19, 2019October 27, 2019 Jeff Butler 3957 Views 0 Comments Energy Observer, Finland, France, Norway, The Gussies, UK, Venice

The Energy Observer left Saint-Malo France in the early hours of this morning to resume her global mission of being

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Cargo Ships Commercial 

Huge sailing ship could be cure for cargo’s massive CO2 output

February 10, 2019February 17, 2019 Jeff Butler 3281 Views 0 Comments Canada, France, Neoline, Renault, Sails, The Gussies

The stats are absolutely astounding on the enormity of emissions from the container ships that ply the oceans taking products

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Cargo Ships Commercial 

Free webinar: transition to electric + hybrid boats

January 27, 2019January 27, 2019 Jeff Butler 1817 Views 0 Comments Seminar, The Gussies

The website IDTechEx will be hosting a free webinar on Thursday 7 February titled The Transition to Electric and Hybrid

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Cargo Ships Commercial 

China launches electric cargo ship to carry…coal?

January 27, 2019January 25, 2020 Antony Harris 3459 Views 0 Comments China, The Gussies

Yep. China Daily announced that “the world’s first 2,000-metric-ton all-electric cargo ship has been launched in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong

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Cargo Ships Commercial 

Cargo ship with solar panels could help cut use of world’s dirtiest fuels

January 27, 2019September 22, 2019 Jeff Butler 6030 Views 0 Comments solar, The Gussies

New EnergySail technology adds solar panels to cargo ships along with an automated rigid wing sail in a system to

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