EV Boat outboard motor?

[moguy1973]

Mercury jumping on this whole EV bandwagon madness.  Not sure what happens when you run out of juice out on the lake and it takes 6-8hours for a charge up.

Mercury Announces First Avator Electric Outboard Concept – Wired2Fish

[fishinwrench]

Depending, of course, on what body of water you are on, you'll be able to just swap your depleted cell for a freshly charged cell in a few minutes, for a reasonable fee. Likely less than a tank of fuel would cost.

You won't be waiting hours to recharge unless you choose to.   

[moguy1973]

10 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Depending, of course, on what body of water you are on, you'll be able to just swap your depleted cell for a freshly charged cell in a few minutes, for a reasonable fee. Likely less than a tank of fuel would cost.

You won't be waiting hours to recharge unless you choose to.   

You don't think the battery needed go any considerable distance with this would need to be a large, not easily swappable, battery like EV cars have?  EV cars have much less movement resistance than boats do.  Gas outboards get maybe  1-2mpg if they are lucky, where a comparable car engine can 10-20 times that.  I'm thinking the batteries would have to be built into the boats for them to be anywhere practical, which means heavy, which means poor performance unless they are laid out properly.

[nomolites]

I’ll pass.

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, moguy1973 said:

You don't think the battery needed go any considerable distance with this would need to be a large, not easily swappable, battery like EV cars have?  EV cars have much less movement resistance than boats do.  Gas outboards get maybe  1-2mpg if they are lucky, where a comparable car engine can 10-20 times that.  I'm thinking the batteries would have to be built into the boats for them to be anywhere practical, which means heavy, which means poor performance unless they are laid out properly.

You think it is larger and heavier than a tank of gasoline that will run the same number of hours ?    

I seriously doubt it.  

[fishinwrench]

8 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

EV cars have much less movement resistance than boats do

There are no hills to climb on the water.

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1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

There are no hills to climb on the water.

What about when I pick up my mother in law?   It's all uphill when she's in the car.😄

[Devan S.]

Get rid of multispeed transmissions and run your car at 5k everywhere you go and I bet it doesn't get 20mpg and dang sure won't last 200k miles.

[jdmidwest]

I like the fish to know when I come across the lake, I will stick to gas motors.

 

[Flysmallie]

9 hours ago, moguy1973 said:

Not sure what happens when you run out of juice out on the lake and it takes 6-8hours for a charge up.

 

Same thing that happens when a combustion engine runs out of gas or quits.