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from the how-long-is-the-extension-cord? dept.
Powered entirely by batteries, Ellen is something of a Tesla among ferries. Fully charged, the 60m vessel can sail 22 nautical miles with up to 200 passengers and 30 cars onboard.
[...] Totalling 4.3MWh this is the largest battery capacity at sea and equivalent to the average amount of electricity a UK household consumes each year.
[...] After a 70 minute voyage, Ellen arrives at the harbour in Søby and moors alongside the charging station.
A mechanical arm plugs in and recharges the batteries in less than 25 minutes with clean energy supplied by local wind turbines.
[...] "We are paying maybe 25% of what you would pay for running a similar diesel vessel." says Ms Heinemann. "So that's the significant saving."
Electric propulsion is beginning to spread from passenger cars to trucks and now ferries.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @10:43AM (1 child)
Hope there's lots of spare range. Because if something goes wrong it's not always easy to stop in the middle of an ocean journey...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 16 2020, @12:44AM
They aren't going very far from their home port so if they have a problem then a tug can get to them in short order. It isn't like they are doing Atlantic crossings.