Electric Powered Cargo Ships

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.

Electric powered cargo ships.

Just as commercial flight will go electric first on short haul. Electric ferries also sail on other rivers. The battery powered barges pictured above are capable of carrying 280 containers. A new all electric cargo ship with a massive 2 4 mwh battery pack in china and.

In battery powered ships than in ships burning incredibly polluting heavy fuels even. Cruise ship ferry and cargo ship builders are developing hybrid and electric ships to reduce reliance on fuels like diesel and heavy fuel oil that power most large vessels. We have recently reported on several large ferries going all electric and now a massive cargo ship in china. 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.

Though it will be able to carry 2 200 tons of cargo with. Cleantechnica reports that guangzhou shipyard international in china has built the world s first 100 battery electric cargo ship. 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. 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. Though 10 percent may seem a bit paltry cargo ships suck up huge amounts of power.