Our aim is zero emission inland shipping deploying all electric vessels equipped with flow batteries.
Electric cargo ship tesla.
Earlier this year bill gates co founder of microsoft commented on electric vehicles and their batteries.
I was doing some research a few weeks ago about relative pollution between the amount of extra pollution from the dieselgate cars and what cargo ships put out and the vw scandal is minuscule in comparison.
Hopefully the electric cargo ship won t be carrying coal for long and china can find it better haulage.
This is huge news with 50 point type.
The norwegian forum for autonomous ships was established in 2016 as cleantechnica reported here and norway began looking at autonomous electric ships as an ideal solution for norway s large.
Writing on his blog gates wrote even with big breakthroughs in battery technology electric vehicles will probably never be a practical solution for things like 18 wheelers cargo ships and passenger jets tesla ceo elon musk was asked on twitter what he thought about bill gates.
Learn how electric is the shape of things to come duration.
Here s the good news.
Large tesla ships all electric container barges are launching this autumn.
That s like 24 batteries from tesla s most high powered.
Or even additional lithium ion batteries.
Some of the world s largest cargo ships emit pollution comparable to millions of passenger cars put together.
China has launched the first all electric cargo ship.
Electric ship with no chargers based on this model an electric ship the size of maersk triple e would need a c 20 5gwh battery to complete a c 15 000 km journey.
Economics of electric ships vs the diesel maersk triple e the world s largest container ship and best in class for energy efficiency and cost.
Portliner s battery recharging strategy allows for additional battery deployment in electricity markets as well as for mobile off grid applications.
Container ship vlog 15.
This is clearly impossible.
According to china daily the 230 foot long vessel is equipped with a 2 400 kwh lithium ion battery that stores enough.