A new electric inboard engine!

🌊 WATERSPORTS

With an honourable mention in Time magazine’s The Best Inventions of 2023, a two-seater hydrofoil e-boat named the WaveFlyer, by Electronautic in Australia is coming to the marketplace. The design is reported to be auto-stabilizing as a semi-autonomous boat. This boat has a twin electric WaveDrive propulsion system (think two e-foils motors working together). A shallow-water mode operates the boat with the foils retracted - for operating near shore or beaches.

Here are a few stats from WaveFlyer website: 4.5 hour cruise time, 40 km/h top speed, 200 kg capacity (2 adults), and up to 100 km foil range.

Read more about the the WaveFlyer here.

⚙️ INBOARDS

Evoy, based in Norway, recently announced two new electric inboard engines: the Inboard Storm 300+ HP and the Inboard Breeze 120+ HP. These engines are reported to be compatible with stern drives, waterjets, and shaft applications.

The Inboard Storm 300+ HP targets recreational boats of 25 - 35 feet in length (single installation), built around an 800 volt battery technology (charinging with a 20kW shorepower cable). The Inboard Breeze 120 HP, cited as being built for versatility, targets boats of 20 - 25 feet in length (planning hull boats to displacements or yachts), charged with 6kW. Both units can connected to a supercharger for an 80% charge in ~45 minutes.

These products are designed as plug-and-play motor systems - touting mechanically simplified design and a control system with remote support.

Learn more about these new engine (and their existing line-up) here.

🛝 E-BOAT ADOPTION FACTORS

In a totally unscientific poll, users on social media and Reddit answered the poll below. The leading factor for electric marine adoption was range. Similar to the hesitancies reported with electric vehicles, ensuring your boat can run for a full day’s worth of excursions and activities is a ‘must-have’ feature. The second factor scored in this poll was affordability. Why pay a premium for a new technology with limited range and unknown long-term maintenance costs or reliability? Again, this parallels to the electric vehicle space where - as Elon Musk says - affordability is the biggest driver of adoption.

The electricfication of the marine sector is larger at the 'Tesla Roadster’ stage - that is early adopters keen on a sustainable/green future will jump into the e-boat world!

Please share on social media X (Twitter), or Instagram) and tag @eboatnews, your biggest factor or factors that need to be solved before you would consider an e-boat.

📅 ARTICLES

From the Summer of 2023, writer Tom Swallow wrote an online piece in EVMagazine, covering the ‘top ten’ electric boat companies. Check of the article here.

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