9:00-10:00 I am completely blown away by how quite that is. I know electric motors are basically silent, but it really doesn't sink in until you see and hear, something like that.
Love the fact that it’s electric! But comfort/luxury compared to the price it’s way off! We building an electric boat with all the comfort of an high end day cruiser but for half the price.
you aren't going to be crossing oceans in an electric boat, but for cruising local waters, out and back fishing, this is perfect. I have salmon fishing, crabbing, prawning, all within 30-40 miles of my marina, well within the range of an electric fishing boat. Catamaran designs will increase efficiency, so will foils. best of all no oil changes and ridiculously expensive trips to the gas station. You could simply charge it up the night before and go fishing the entire next day without ever touching or smelling gas one time. also, these will make incredible sight-seeing boats, incredible search and rescue coast guard style, scientific research, etc. once you go electric you can't go back.
It won’t do much for range but any word on solar panels on the hardtop? Keep the house batteries topped up while at anchor or to keep a mini fridge running. Possibly top the main batteries during the times it’s at the marina while it’s not being used?
Thank you for understanding the solar panels on that tiny roof would make little difference to range. So many people seem to think you could stick a solar panel on a boat or car, and it would just go forever.
A large part of the big cost is that its built in Scandinavia, The motor is nothing Special in terms of power and the efficiency and instant torque are standard to modern auto electric motors. Though its typically small light, simple and virtually maintainance free requiring no gearbox...clutch etc.. and being vibration noise and odour free. The battery packs could be Nio swappable auto units .. that would reduce the cost, and even allowing leasing of them and swapping for newer better technologies as they enter the Nio Vehicle fleets. Any displacement /planing hull is going to be inefficient once in double figures speeds compared to a fully foiling hull by a long way... as developed by another Scandinavian builder. At that price the canopy should be full length and full solar inclusive. The hull material could be better, Cheaper and greener if Basalt fiber was used...Its stronger, tougher, lighter, more chemically and temperature stable it also has a lower energy cost to produce than E glass or Carbon and doesnt need hyrocarbons to produce the fibers from Widely available natural Basalt rock its fully recyclable.
@@hugoandreae3785 Thats another excellent option though im not sure if it can match the basalt fiber mechanically ... its and excellent GRP replacement option and a better carbon dioxide sink it can also clean up contaminated soils. Everyone in the boating world is going to have to look at the options.. for construction and propulsion systems. Electric motors are pretty much a no brainer, the difficulty remains with the battery cost ...chemistry and related mass.. Na ion battery s from CATLE are very promising and available now, as are Blade cells Sulpher cells are better but a way off and not sure how they compare to Na. tech. The best energy store is Aluminium ... Its also light common and recyclable but theres two possibilities one is a Al. air burner pack augmenting a rechargeable..the other under research by DARPA for the US millitary uses Al pellets in a fuel cell type system. Interesting times. But Auto and aviation will yield the technology. Meantime hybrid power system s will extend range and ICE efficiency by reducing them to indirect generators.
@@hugoandreae3785 No but im an Environmental scientist with a special interest in transport and recently in people working with boats and sustainably living aboard and passage making.
@@Aleks123 No, it is not eco-friendly. (See my other comments here) EDIT: actually, UA-cam apparently refuses to show my other comments to people for some reason... UA-cam is so corrupt and so fraudulent...
@@pistonburner6448 well pound for pound over the entire lifetime electric things like cars or boats do take more co2 to make but make up that over the lifetime even if the power source isn’t clean it still is far more efficient and runs cleaner than the cleanest combustion engine
What an awesome bit of kit. First electric boat that I’d like to have a go on. Really rather cool! Side note: the reflection on the underside of the T-top when you were discussing numbers was mesmerising. Jack who?! 🤪
Love the electric component and set up, but the boat layout for fun on the water needs re-thinking IMO. Boats like the Axopar, for example. Also, I wonder how the hull design/ride in choppy water compares to something like the Axopar.
Good idea to developed such boat. Now, they should put solar panels to have the capability to use while at large because if it's powerful it means you will have empty batteries fast and it would be smart to be able to charge it with solar power in case your batteries are low or emptied. I'm certain they will think about that.
"It's not a sustainable system, high voltage is very dangerous. If there are 4 water circulation motors in the boat and there is still sea water interaction, if it's not direct drive and requires a gearbox and cooling, if the battery has to reach high amps, if the battery charge and discharge balance has to be cooled at high temperatures, if the motor is heating up even though there is a gearbox, and if the motor also has to be cooled with seawater circulation, and even if there is a special cooling fluid for the battery, and if I have to use service batteries to cool 4 separate circulation motors and circulation water instead of using them for my refrigerator, and if my top speed range is only 39 minutes, and if I have to charge with 380V three-phase, or if I have to wait 9 hours to charge with single-phase, and if I have to spend 39 minutes cruising and 540 minutes charging, if I have to pay 7,000-10,000 euros for a 380V 90-100 amp charger and reduce my charging time to 2 hours, if I'm going to halve or even more reduce my battery life by fast charging, and if I can't feed my battery from any regenerative source, and if I can't provide feedback energy from the natural rotation of my propeller due to wind or current like wind or solar, unfortunately XSHORE boats are NOT REALLY SUSTAINABLE. Thanks."
And why electric? Even they admit that under their no doubt favourably cherry-picked numbers, under heavy use that boat only equals ICE boats in emissions after 6 years. So even in that favourable case it's not clearly better in emissions. Let alone what the situation is with the average, lighter boat use. And when using more realistic numbers, including all the charging losses etc. I've read many research papers on EV vs. ICE lifecycle emissions due to my involvement with this subject in the automotive sector, and all but one I've read use very incorrect numbers and comparisons and are funded by parties that are totally partisan/corrupt. And above all they all _completely ignore the existence of biofuels and e-fuels_ which make ICE engines more sustainable than electric vehicles even in the automotive sector, let alone in boating and aviation where battery electric is an even less suited solution. All existing boats, no need to manufacture millions of tons of batteries using materials under Chinese control: just fill them up with e-fuels or biofuels and they're more environmentally friendly than battery electric! Look at the situation with us and Russian gas now. Now think of what the situation will be like in regards to China if we make ourselves totally reliant on Chinese batteries and Chinese battery raw materials. It is a fact that China has had the specific strategy to gain control of most of the world's raw materials for battery production. We are even more powerless against them than Germany is to Russia if we allow Chinese-bribed politicians and NGOs, as well as totally partisan electric producing corporations, grid corporations, and the thousands of other corrupt people making a career to push this lie. And they actually have the gall to keep spreading misinformation like "EVs are Zero-Emission"!!
What you have to remember with electric power is the batteries will get recycled and upto 98% of the materials will be recovered and used to make new batteries so the mining and refining needed over time is massively reduced so its sustainable. Brilliant boat great to see
I think to add to that, the more the world spends on R&D with regards to electric motors, battery technology and charging, the better it will get. Sure range right now isn't great but how great were cars a decade into serious manufacturing?
Who will recycle them and who will pay for it, Nostradamus? Plastic is lightweight, easy to handle and very cheap to recycle. Yet we know what happens... Batteries are incredibly heavy, difficult to handle, require expertise and are very expensive to recycle. So how on earth would those be more likely to be taken care of better? Already now materials used in battery production has changed. Already now we don't use the materials from old batteries to make new ones. Even according to that company that boat is less environmentally friendly than ordinary ICE boats under heavy use for 6 years, and only then does it break even. I'd take their numbers with a huge grain of salt too, as every single piece of research on the lifecycle emissions of electric vehicles except one research paper have all been incorrect, basically fraudulent. Every research paper except for that one relatively correct one I found were funded by partisan, corrupt parties like the one Dutch University paper which was funded by the German Green party. If even those partisan sources can't prove the EVs to be lower in emissions unless in heavy use for 6 years, we know that their environmental credentials are not what they are advertised as. And note: ALL comparisons are made comparing to ICE engines running on _purely fossil_ fuels. They pretend that biofuels and e-fuels (as well as hydrogen) don't exist. Already right now all E10 fuel, the most popular type of fuel, is 10% biofuel. My father living in an EU-country (not UK) has been driving on ONLY next generation biodiesel for over 5 years, and it's widely available over there, he can always find it when he needs it. That NEXBTL biodiesel is made from waste products from certified sources, has 70% lower CO2 emissions than fossil diesel, and is therefore clearly lower in CO2 emissions than EVs!! The EV-pushers literally ignore the existence of the main competitor, which are those sustainable fuels. Which can be used in all existing boats right away without having to spend decades totally replacing all boats with very expensive electric boats with batteries from China or at least with materials from China. Batteries are a bad solution to a problem that doesn't exist. The EV cult is only pushed by politicians and organizations bribed by China to do so. (BTW no accusations of me being a "hater" or "anti-EV": I was an early adopter, I bought an electric car at a very early stage, have also owned several PHEVs. I also have a small boat with a Torqueedo electric outboard. Since then I've swapped back to a lightweight, efficient purely ICE car and for another small boat I bought an ICE outboard as they make more sense and are far lower in CO2 emissions in my use, plus that leaves me a lot moe money to use on actually effective lowering of emissions.)
@@pistonburner6448 it has to work all known oil and gas reserves will be depleted by 2052 with coal not far behind. We have managed to burn through in less than 200 years resources that took millions of years to make. As Carl Sagan said the only reason Venus is 500C on the surface is because of the the CO2 in the atmosphere. However we do need some greenhouse gas warming or else the Earth would be 30C cooler and the seas would freeze so you’re probably ok to keep producing some. Enjoy your boating
How on earth did Hugo get through this video and leave a locker unopened. I've never seen him act like that before. If it opens, he's got to open it. Someone get him a drink.
Just great. About the watch, really good would be if the boat would turn around and come back to the location of the watch. The watch being presumably on the wrist of the driver who fell off.
Be honest Hugo, don't you ish you had this back when you were with the Black Daggers? How many swims you could have avoided in oil slicked water and dead fish assaulting your nostrils and clinging to your drysuit? Shwacking tangos slicky slick, tag and bag and di di mau back to the boat and a nice quiet exit back to the sub. This boat reminds me of the boats you get in Thailand that run you out to the private islands with the engine taken from a Honda Civic and they bury it under the seat surrounded by thick padding so you don't hear it amd the shafts is 10 feet long. You've been on an electric boat before, in fact a hydrofoil, how does that compare? And I think you were on another one that had the battery and motor from a BMW X3. I think soon, we will have remote control boats. You go out for a weekend and cameras determine where you are and take you around. No driver and no other people on board. Or a VR overlay system.
@@hugoandreae3785 oh yeah, that's true. Or the Swiss green square, grey square, black square camo overlay. With the rear painted white,grey, black, blue for wake distortion. Ironic that thy re neutral but always come up with the best weapons to eradicate people with
The range is more than enough for the size of boat. Only die hard deniers believe that electric is less powerful the diesel nowadays. The only question you didn't cover is how much space the batteries take up, and what is the maximum potential battery capacity.
A boat markeded as "green" should never be made from fiberglass. Aluminium should be the only option, but of course, it's not shiny enough for those who want to virtue signal...
Unfortunately, electric boats are expensive at the moment. Hopefully in the future, they will be more affordable, so everyone will have a chance to get one!! ⚡⚡
Disappointing feel of comfort. How about putting solar panels on the roof, so it's always fueling when not in use, and also it can perhaps crawl in if it runs out of charge? So lacking both comfort and utility.
I do like the interesting new throttle design. I think you could still accidentally bump up and turn it, but presumably less likely then the usual throttle design.
Did I miss the part of the video that shows the emergency kill switch lanyard? The trial operator is zipping around sharp turns alone on the craft & safety seems to be not considered!!!!
Too utilitarian, no ability to secure anchor which is manual anyway, range limited unless at displacement speeds, cost is impractical, first gen prototype has a long way to go to affect the market
...and it's not more environmentally friendly than ICE even now when running on purely fossil fuels (let alone when filled up with sustainable e-fuels/biofuels). And EVs are an attempt by China to get the west reliant on their batteries and battery raw materials just like Russia paid corrupt 'green' politicians to shut down nuclear power in order to make us reliant on their products.
@@chrisfriends7911 let's talk about it when one is sitting on the bottom spewing lithium. Then let's follow the cord all the way back to where the electricity is generated. You still sure about the carbon monoxide? Didn't think that far did ya. That there electric comes from a big smokey beast coal powered carbon monoxide mega plume. We can visit the lithium mines too. In 100 years let's test the water under the landfill with the batteries. A little Dino juice might still be better... only our grandchildren will know! A wooden boat with oars is environmentally friendly. The electric boat... questionable if it's any better than a smoker. Just food for thought. Gotta start somewhere, is lithium the environmentally sustainable choice? Promise? I remain skeptical.
I've just watched the first 2 minutes of this and I really hope the tech is amazing, because that is essentially the ugliest boat I've ever seen. Please don't tell me that it's a quarter million dollars.
Complete bs. Even if the bank had that kind of capacity which I highly question, and assuming a 48v system, at 32a the charging time would be something like 80 hours. Assuming it's all bulk charging.
@@sadenuttie2234 It's not about that. It's about the batteries themselves, the materials needed to produce them and how difficult it is to recycle them.
@@christianisekin1215 ...and wait until there is a bigger conflict with China and the whole west is even more reliant on Chinese batteries and battery raw materials (which they control) than we are on Russian gas! It is a fact that China is pouring billions into bribing western politicians, civil servants, NGOs, even companies and their employees to push for their EV agenda. You know our politicians, governments, the "EV industry" (including grid corporations, power companies), "environmental experts" are corrupt when they still spread total misinformation like "EV = Zero Emissions" and they have the gall to pretend that biofuels and e-fuels don't exist at all!
@@christianisekin1215 yes, that is the reason why it is dumb to use them on boats. Huge amount of fossil fuels burnt on the production of huge battery capacities for the leisure of a few people, let alone all of the solar panels on some of the power cats. But electric cars are small and efficient enough to offset the production Co2 within a year (even in a country with high fossil fuel energy sources)
You may only be sticking for ten years max and the fuel may be no more... Meantime the battery energy store will become smaller lighter and cheaper. The other possibility is aluminium pellets and water in a fuel cell a Darpa tech.
Fab tour Hugo. Loved your reaction to the acceleration!! Xxxxx
It was quite startling!
9:00-10:00
I am completely blown away by how quite that is.
I know electric motors are basically silent, but it really doesn't sink in until you see and hear, something like that.
Another nice video, as always Hugo. Thanks for showing us the X Shore. Certainly a lovely boat.
You should test the X-Shore with a Sharrow toroidal propeller. It could possibly be a great way of increasing the efficiency even more!
Love the fact that it’s electric! But comfort/luxury compared to the price it’s way off! We building an electric boat with all the comfort of an high end day cruiser but for half the price.
Of course, those cork decks don't come cheap, I expect.
I found this vid pretty exciting to be honest, it's electric with a good range, awesome. 👍❤️🇬🇧
Very impressive how well that is put together. Well done too the engine design team.
you aren't going to be crossing oceans in an electric boat, but for cruising local waters, out and back fishing, this is perfect. I have salmon fishing, crabbing, prawning, all within 30-40 miles of my marina, well within the range of an electric fishing boat. Catamaran designs will increase efficiency, so will foils. best of all no oil changes and ridiculously expensive trips to the gas station. You could simply charge it up the night before and go fishing the entire next day without ever touching or smelling gas one time. also, these will make incredible sight-seeing boats, incredible search and rescue coast guard style, scientific research, etc. once you go electric you can't go back.
What a well thought out boat!
Why not a solar panel charger on the roof?
It would make very little difference relative to the size of the battery
@@hugoandreae3785 yes but it would help for electronics, lights and fridge
It won’t do much for range but any word on solar panels on the hardtop? Keep the house batteries topped up while at anchor or to keep a mini fridge running. Possibly top the main batteries during the times it’s at the marina while it’s not being used?
Thank you for understanding the solar panels on that tiny roof would make little difference to range.
So many people seem to think you could stick a solar panel on a boat or car, and it would just go forever.
A large part of the big cost is that its built in Scandinavia,
The motor is nothing Special in terms of power and the efficiency and instant torque are standard to modern auto electric motors. Though its typically small light, simple and virtually maintainance free requiring no gearbox...clutch etc.. and being vibration noise and odour free.
The battery packs could be Nio swappable auto units .. that would reduce the cost, and even allowing leasing of them and swapping for newer better technologies as they enter the Nio Vehicle fleets.
Any displacement /planing hull is going to be inefficient once in double figures speeds compared to a fully foiling hull by a long way... as developed by another Scandinavian builder.
At that price the canopy should be full length and full solar inclusive.
The hull material could be better, Cheaper and greener if Basalt fiber was used...Its stronger, tougher, lighter, more chemically and temperature stable it also has a lower energy cost to produce than E glass or Carbon and doesnt need hyrocarbons to produce the fibers from Widely available natural Basalt rock its fully recyclable.
They are planning to switch to flax fibre soon
@@hugoandreae3785
Thats another excellent option though im not sure if it can match the basalt fiber mechanically ... its and excellent GRP replacement option and a better carbon dioxide sink it can also clean up contaminated soils.
Everyone in the boating world is going to have to look at the options.. for construction and propulsion systems.
Electric motors are pretty much a no brainer, the difficulty remains with the battery cost ...chemistry and related mass.. Na ion battery s from CATLE are very promising and available now, as are Blade cells
Sulpher cells are better but a way off and not sure how they compare to Na. tech.
The best energy store is Aluminium ... Its also light common and recyclable but theres two possibilities one is a Al. air burner pack augmenting a rechargeable..the other under research by DARPA for the US millitary uses Al pellets in a fuel cell type system. Interesting times.
But Auto and aviation will yield the technology.
Meantime hybrid power system s will extend range and ICE efficiency by reducing them to indirect generators.
@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 sounds like you know a thing or two about this tech. Are you involved in the industry?
@@hugoandreae3785
No but im an Environmental scientist with a special interest in transport and recently in people working with boats and sustainably living aboard and passage making.
Only thing about this boat that blows my mind is the price
Being electric though is super cool
@@Aleks123 I don't see how being electric is 'cool'.
@@pistonburner6448 Well its eco friendly and the torque of the motor is cool
@@Aleks123 No, it is not eco-friendly.
(See my other comments here)
EDIT: actually, UA-cam apparently refuses to show my other comments to people for some reason... UA-cam is so corrupt and so fraudulent...
@@pistonburner6448 well pound for pound over the entire lifetime electric things like cars or boats do take more co2 to make but make up that over the lifetime even if the power source isn’t clean it still is far more efficient and runs cleaner than the cleanest combustion engine
I had my doubts at the start of this video, but this testing has really changed my mind as to the preference of this wonderful little day boat.
Gusto ko talaga ng electric boat❤
Can you put a live bait on that storages?
Do they have charging stations on docks? They will need an electric grid to handle the influx of electric boats. Quite an impressive speedboat.
What an awesome bit of kit.
First electric boat that I’d like to have a go on. Really rather cool!
Side note: the reflection on the underside of the T-top when you were discussing numbers was mesmerising.
Jack who?! 🤪
I never realised my bald patch was so mesmerising 😉
@@hugoandreae3785 I didn’t even notice!
The water took my interest I’m afraid 😆
⚡⚡ the boat is really fun to drive!!
Woooow ! Super cool design & smart technology ... Great performance demonstration ... Love how quiet & powerful it is ... Mark (Toronto) 👍🌊⚓
Would be nice to know basic specifications (LOA, beam) at the beginning of the video
Love the electric component and set up, but the boat layout for fun on the water needs re-thinking IMO. Boats like the Axopar, for example. Also, I wonder how the hull design/ride in choppy water compares to something like the Axopar.
Bit shocked at the end with the €270k bit. Plus VAT! Quite a lot for a day toy
This is not a toy, youre out of juice in 20-30 minutes if youre toying around with it. Then you have hours of waiting to charge it
Good idea to developed such boat. Now, they should put solar panels to have the capability to use while at large because if it's powerful it means you will have empty batteries fast and it would be smart to be able to charge it with solar power in case your batteries are low or emptied. I'm certain they will think about that.
Looks like a good tender for a yacht, do they make a smaller one that you could run up to a beach like a rib?
No but RS Electric boats do make a small electric RIB
Should put Solar panels on the top that can charge when your just sitting around or just floating that way you could go for longer trips
"It's not a sustainable system, high voltage is very dangerous. If there are 4 water circulation motors in the boat and there is still sea water interaction, if it's not direct drive and requires a gearbox and cooling, if the battery has to reach high amps, if the battery charge and discharge balance has to be cooled at high temperatures, if the motor is heating up even though there is a gearbox, and if the motor also has to be cooled with seawater circulation, and even if there is a special cooling fluid for the battery, and if I have to use service batteries to cool 4 separate circulation motors and circulation water instead of using them for my refrigerator, and if my top speed range is only 39 minutes, and if I have to charge with 380V three-phase, or if I have to wait 9 hours to charge with single-phase, and if I have to spend 39 minutes cruising and 540 minutes charging, if I have to pay 7,000-10,000 euros for a 380V 90-100 amp charger and reduce my charging time to 2 hours, if I'm going to halve or even more reduce my battery life by fast charging, and if I can't feed my battery from any regenerative source, and if I can't provide feedback energy from the natural rotation of my propeller due to wind or current like wind or solar, unfortunately XSHORE boats are NOT REALLY SUSTAINABLE. Thanks."
I love it! Simple as that. I'm off to search which UK marina's have fast charging. Anyone have any idea which ones let me know......
Self charging like a silent yacht would be a bonus. Interesting, but not really got enough range yet.
what percentage of the components are manufactured in china?
Not a lot, in some cases it's safer & cheaper to get parts locally when you are working in lower volumes
Cost please
Did he mention battery life time ?
Very nice. How long before these electric boats will be affordable though?
And why electric? Even they admit that under their no doubt favourably cherry-picked numbers, under heavy use that boat only equals ICE boats in emissions after 6 years. So even in that favourable case it's not clearly better in emissions. Let alone what the situation is with the average, lighter boat use. And when using more realistic numbers, including all the charging losses etc. I've read many research papers on EV vs. ICE lifecycle emissions due to my involvement with this subject in the automotive sector, and all but one I've read use very incorrect numbers and comparisons and are funded by parties that are totally partisan/corrupt.
And above all they all _completely ignore the existence of biofuels and e-fuels_ which make ICE engines more sustainable than electric vehicles even in the automotive sector, let alone in boating and aviation where battery electric is an even less suited solution. All existing boats, no need to manufacture millions of tons of batteries using materials under Chinese control: just fill them up with e-fuels or biofuels and they're more environmentally friendly than battery electric!
Look at the situation with us and Russian gas now. Now think of what the situation will be like in regards to China if we make ourselves totally reliant on Chinese batteries and Chinese battery raw materials. It is a fact that China has had the specific strategy to gain control of most of the world's raw materials for battery production. We are even more powerless against them than Germany is to Russia if we allow Chinese-bribed politicians and NGOs, as well as totally partisan electric producing corporations, grid corporations, and the thousands of other corrupt people making a career to push this lie. And they actually have the gall to keep spreading misinformation like "EVs are Zero-Emission"!!
What you have to remember with electric power is the batteries will get recycled and upto 98% of the materials will be recovered and used to make new batteries so the mining and refining needed over time is massively reduced so its sustainable. Brilliant boat great to see
I think to add to that, the more the world spends on R&D with regards to electric motors, battery technology and charging, the better it will get. Sure range right now isn't great but how great were cars a decade into serious manufacturing?
Who will recycle them and who will pay for it, Nostradamus?
Plastic is lightweight, easy to handle and very cheap to recycle. Yet we know what happens...
Batteries are incredibly heavy, difficult to handle, require expertise and are very expensive to recycle. So how on earth would those be more likely to be taken care of better? Already now materials used in battery production has changed. Already now we don't use the materials from old batteries to make new ones.
Even according to that company that boat is less environmentally friendly than ordinary ICE boats under heavy use for 6 years, and only then does it break even. I'd take their numbers with a huge grain of salt too, as every single piece of research on the lifecycle emissions of electric vehicles except one research paper have all been incorrect, basically fraudulent. Every research paper except for that one relatively correct one I found were funded by partisan, corrupt parties like the one Dutch University paper which was funded by the German Green party. If even those partisan sources can't prove the EVs to be lower in emissions unless in heavy use for 6 years, we know that their environmental credentials are not what they are advertised as.
And note: ALL comparisons are made comparing to ICE engines running on _purely fossil_ fuels. They pretend that biofuels and e-fuels (as well as hydrogen) don't exist. Already right now all E10 fuel, the most popular type of fuel, is 10% biofuel. My father living in an EU-country (not UK) has been driving on ONLY next generation biodiesel for over 5 years, and it's widely available over there, he can always find it when he needs it. That NEXBTL biodiesel is made from waste products from certified sources, has 70% lower CO2 emissions than fossil diesel, and is therefore clearly lower in CO2 emissions than EVs!! The EV-pushers literally ignore the existence of the main competitor, which are those sustainable fuels. Which can be used in all existing boats right away without having to spend decades totally replacing all boats with very expensive electric boats with batteries from China or at least with materials from China.
Batteries are a bad solution to a problem that doesn't exist. The EV cult is only pushed by politicians and organizations bribed by China to do so.
(BTW no accusations of me being a "hater" or "anti-EV": I was an early adopter, I bought an electric car at a very early stage, have also owned several PHEVs. I also have a small boat with a Torqueedo electric outboard. Since then I've swapped back to a lightweight, efficient purely ICE car and for another small boat I bought an ICE outboard as they make more sense and are far lower in CO2 emissions in my use, plus that leaves me a lot moe money to use on actually effective lowering of emissions.)
@@pistonburner6448 it has to work all known oil and gas reserves will be depleted by 2052 with coal not far behind. We have managed to burn through in less than 200 years resources that took millions of years to make. As Carl Sagan said the only reason Venus is 500C on the surface is because of the the CO2 in the atmosphere. However we do need some greenhouse gas warming or else the Earth would be 30C cooler and the seas would freeze so you’re probably ok to keep producing some. Enjoy your boating
Is this Saab?
Add foils to this like the Candela 7 and the range might triple while the speed would increase by a few knots......
Weight is all in the middle!
Great video test as usual sir. Well done. You are an absolute gentleman. God bless you sir.
How on earth did Hugo get through this video and leave a locker unopened. I've never seen him act like that before. If it opens, he's got to open it. Someone get him a drink.
I went back and opened it later off screen just to be sure!
I was as surprised as you Paul 😊
Just great. About the watch, really good would be if the boat would turn around and come back to the location of the watch. The watch being presumably on the wrist of the driver who fell off.
Nice idea but do you really want a driverless boat coming back towards you with the propeller still turning?
@@hugoandreae3785 not when you put it like that. But how far are you going to swim to go get it?
Be honest Hugo, don't you ish you had this back when you were with the Black Daggers? How many swims you could have avoided in oil slicked water and dead fish assaulting your nostrils and clinging to your drysuit? Shwacking tangos slicky slick, tag and bag and di di mau back to the boat and a nice quiet exit back to the sub. This boat reminds me of the boats you get in Thailand that run you out to the private islands with the engine taken from a Honda Civic and they bury it under the seat surrounded by thick padding so you don't hear it amd the shafts is 10 feet long. You've been on an electric boat before, in fact a hydrofoil, how does that compare? And I think you were on another one that had the battery and motor from a BMW X3. I think soon, we will have remote control boats. You go out for a weekend and cameras determine where you are and take you around. No driver and no other people on board. Or a VR overlay system.
Would have needed to be in matt black with radar absorbing panels of course…
@@hugoandreae3785 oh yeah, that's true. Or the Swiss green square, grey square, black square camo overlay. With the rear painted white,grey, black, blue for wake distortion. Ironic that thy re neutral but always come up with the best weapons to eradicate people with
Impressive! Not sure electric will be really sustainable in the future, but definitely impressive
Why? You figure every sort of method for generating electricity will disappear?
The range is more than enough for the size of boat.
Only die hard deniers believe that electric is less powerful the diesel nowadays.
The only question you didn't cover is how much space the batteries take up, and what is the maximum potential battery capacity.
Lekker man lekker 🇿🇦
There are some South Africans on the team there in Sweden....
A boat markeded as "green" should never be made from fiberglass. Aluminium should be the only option, but of course, it's not shiny enough for those who want to virtue signal...
I think I’ll stick with sails
Started watching then saw the price in the comments. I wish someone would target an electric boat for the rest of us instead of just the wealthiest 5%
Unfortunately, electric boats are expensive at the moment. Hopefully in the future, they will be more affordable, so everyone will have a chance to get one!! ⚡⚡
,...and a full 1000 meter range!
Disappointing feel of comfort. How about putting solar panels on the roof, so it's always fueling when not in use, and also it can perhaps crawl in if it runs out of charge? So lacking both comfort and utility.
I do like the interesting new throttle design. I think you could still accidentally bump up and turn it, but presumably less likely then the usual throttle design.
You never run through the performance figures on screen like you say you will
219 nm@ 3knots youre joking
...or just fill up your boat's fuel tanks with synthetic/biofuel. Save a hundred grand. And increase your evening cruise/fishing trip radius manyfold.
biofuel sucks
What about going the American "long row of outboards flex" route? Install 15 Torqueedo electric outboards and it'll even look impressive!
Did I miss the part of the video that shows the emergency kill switch lanyard? The trial operator is zipping around sharp turns alone on the craft & safety seems to be not considered!!!!
Very cool
10:46 - lmao! Awesome.
Too utilitarian, no ability to secure anchor which is manual anyway, range limited unless at displacement speeds, cost is impractical, first gen prototype has a long way to go to affect the market
...and it's not more environmentally friendly than ICE even now when running on purely fossil fuels (let alone when filled up with sustainable e-fuels/biofuels).
And EVs are an attempt by China to get the west reliant on their batteries and battery raw materials just like Russia paid corrupt 'green' politicians to shut down nuclear power in order to make us reliant on their products.
Ugly, especially the bow area. Functional. Very expensive. Must be lined in gold.
Holy Moly 😮 😂😂
The videos are wonderful but OMG the hesitant commentary. Somebody writ him a script
Ya lithium is so much more natural than fossil fuel. Genius. Nevermind that were riding in a boat made completely of petroleum products.
Is it spewing out carbon monoxide? I didn't see any.
@@chrisfriends7911 let's talk about it when one is sitting on the bottom spewing lithium. Then let's follow the cord all the way back to where the electricity is generated. You still sure about the carbon monoxide? Didn't think that far did ya. That there electric comes from a big smokey beast coal powered carbon monoxide mega plume. We can visit the lithium mines too. In 100 years let's test the water under the landfill with the batteries. A little Dino juice might still be better... only our grandchildren will know! A wooden boat with oars is environmentally friendly. The electric boat... questionable if it's any better than a smoker. Just food for thought. Gotta start somewhere, is lithium the environmentally sustainable choice? Promise? I remain skeptical.
Mind not blown at all, too expensive and it's ugly, someone slap the designer.
I've just watched the first 2 minutes of this and I really hope the tech is amazing, because that is essentially the ugliest boat I've ever seen. Please don't tell me that it's a quarter million dollars.
Very cool.
But why sooo ugly??
Complete bs. Even if the bank had that kind of capacity which I highly question, and assuming a 48v system, at 32a the charging time would be something like 80 hours. Assuming it's all bulk charging.
99.3nm max range at 7knts with a full charge 🥴💩🤡
The day that everybody will understand the downside of electric vehicles using batteries!
electric cars work great with batteries. Boats not so much (for now)
@@sadenuttie2234
It's not about that. It's about the batteries themselves, the materials needed to produce them and how difficult it is to recycle them.
@@christianisekin1215 ...and wait until there is a bigger conflict with China and the whole west is even more reliant on Chinese batteries and battery raw materials (which they control) than we are on Russian gas! It is a fact that China is pouring billions into bribing western politicians, civil servants, NGOs, even companies and their employees to push for their EV agenda.
You know our politicians, governments, the "EV industry" (including grid corporations, power companies), "environmental experts" are corrupt when they still spread total misinformation like "EV = Zero Emissions" and they have the gall to pretend that biofuels and e-fuels don't exist at all!
@@christianisekin1215 yes, that is the reason why it is dumb to use them on boats. Huge amount of fossil fuels burnt on the production of huge battery capacities for the leisure of a few people, let alone all of the solar panels on some of the power cats. But electric cars are small and efficient enough to offset the production Co2 within a year (even in a country with high fossil fuel energy sources)
@@sadenuttie2234
Are you really giving me the CO2 argument?
You still believe in man-made climate change? 🙄
For the rich or those who wish to be thought as; a truly ugly boat used for social esteem.
These things are a JOKE , absolutely Useless Range .
The range is useless unfortunately
NO THANK YOU!!
I will FOREVER stick with my fossil fuel generated boat, car, plane and anything else that runs on fossil fuel.
HUGE THUMBS DOWN
You may only be sticking for ten years max and the fuel may be no more... Meantime the battery energy store will become smaller lighter and cheaper. The other possibility is aluminium pellets and water in a fuel cell a Darpa tech.
lmao you look the part Max
dumb as they come
would like to see those behind-e v?v