Electric Powered Cargo Ships

Just as commercial flight will go electric first on short haul.

Electric powered cargo ships.

A new all electric cargo ship with a massive 2 4 mwh battery pack in china and. The battery powered barges pictured above are capable of carrying 280 containers. China just launched its first all electric cargo ship which will travel 50 miles at a top speed of 8 miles per hour on a single charge. On the ruhr in witten germany two electrically powered ships are in use and in berlin the four solar powered ferries fährbär 1 to 4 have been sailing on the spree since 2014.

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. In battery powered ships than in ships burning incredibly polluting heavy fuels even. Other stats for china s cargo ship include being 70 5 meters 230 feet in length a battery capacity of 2 400 kwh and a travel speed of 12 8 kilometers per hour 8 mph. A 1 000 tonne electric cargo ship powered by a lithium battery and super capacitor successfully completed its water trials along the yangtze river portion in changzhou jiangsu on friday 8 may reports xinhua news agency.

Electric ferries also sail on other rivers. Cleantechnica reports that guangzhou shipyard international in china has built the world s first 100 battery electric cargo ship. Though it will be able to carry 2 200 tons of cargo with. A boat the size of the auriga leader needs about 400 kilowatts of energy while at port while a larger vessel.

We have recently reported on several large ferries going all electric and now a massive cargo ship in china. Though 10 percent may seem a bit paltry cargo ships suck up huge amounts of power.