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General Category => Pics and Vids => Topic started by: DynoMutt on May 21, 2015, 09:20:30 PM

Title: Electric Ferry
Post by: DynoMutt on May 21, 2015, 09:20:30 PM

I know it isn't a Electric Motorcycle, but it may be of interest to some who RIDE motorcycles.

http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/worlds-first-electrical-car-ferry-in-operation (http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/worlds-first-electrical-car-ferry-in-operation)

Be sure to see what looks like the world's largest Anderson connector toward the bottom of the article

Title: Re: Electric Ferry
Post by: Chocula on May 21, 2015, 10:48:42 PM

That is fantastic!  I was thinking the same thing when I saw the connector.  I remember seeing a documentary on this awhile back when it was still being built.  I am glad to see it has gone into service as expected.

Title: Re: Electric Ferry
Post by: Mike Werner on May 22, 2015, 12:16:00 AM

That is cool. wow.

Title: Re: Electric Ferry
Post by: NoiseBoy on May 23, 2015, 11:02:46 PM

That's $150,000 worth of battery. Yikes!

Title: Re: Electric Ferry
Post by: CrashCash on May 24, 2015, 11:06:52 AM

Ferries are probably about as perfect an EV application as you can get. The same run between the same two points with over and over again.

I hope this catches on!

Cavotech (name on the connector) appears to be a Swiss conglomerate that does a *ton* of high-tech stuff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavotec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavotec)