Electric Boat Costs 40–50€ to Cross Baltic Sea, vs 750€ Refueling Gas Boat - CleanTechnica
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Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! An electric hydrofoiling Candela C-8 crossed the Baltic Sea about a week ago. The boat went from Stockholm to the Finnish autonomous region of Åland. As a stunning example of the low operational costs ... [continued]

While the much lower fuel cost has to be a bit of a shocker (we all know EVs are more efficient and cheaper to operate, but not 95% cheaper), the bigger surprise has to be how much more convenient the electric boat was in a certain key way. “We actually had range anxiety, but not for the Candela. The irony is that the photographer’s gasoline-powered chase boat had to refuel six times during the trip, while we only charged three times,” said Gustav Hasselskog.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      382·
      2 months ago

      Imagine tanks full of highly volatile combustible fluids on fire in the middle of the ocean 🫨

    • brianorca@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      That’s why most boat power systems use LiFePo4 (aka LFP) batteries instead of LiCoO2 like you phone battery. LFP is immune to thermal runaway, and can’t burn even if it did overheat.

      • 0x0English
        4·
        2 months ago

        Not mermaids? I feel tricked.

    • formergijoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      2 months ago

      What would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater, and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?