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Stockholm's 75-Foot Electric Ferry Takes Just 10 Minutes To Charge

Making the world a better place by cutting 130 tons of CO2 emissions and 1.5 tons of NOx emissions at a time.

 

The age of electric mobility isn't here yet, largely due to current technology that doesn't allow for quick charging of batteries. Well, that's what we thought until we heard of boffins at Stockholm that have created an electric ferry which can be charged in as little as 10 minutes.

 

The Movitz, a 75-foot long ferry that can carry up to 100 passengers, is ditching its CO2 belching 335hp diesel engine for two 125 kilowatt electric motors mounted on either side of the hull. The motors will be powered by a 180 kilowatt-hour nickel metal hydride battery pack that provides the ferry enough juice to chug along for an hour at 9 knots.

 

While that doesn't sound too exciting, what will set the Movitz apart is its rapid charging system that can top up the batteries in as little as 10 minutes. Developed by startup Echandia Marine, the system will cut 130 tons of CO2 emissions and 1.5 tons of NOx emissions while reducing operating costs 30 percent.

 

WIRED notes that it makes sense to electrify vehicles that travel on fixed routes and have long stops – buses, delivery trucks and ferries. The Movitz will spend its days making hourlong journeys over water with a 10-minute layover at stops for charging, also the time taken for passengers to be loaded and unloaded.

 

Echandia's system for rapid charging makes StoreDot's technology that allowed for charging of a Samsung Galaxy S4 in 30 seconds look weak. Ideally though both technologies are a quantum leap in battery and charging technology that we will most likely see more of in the near future.

 

Technologies like these really show us that the electric age is near, all we have to do is nurture them and iron out the kinks. The cost of such technologies may initially be mammoth, but as proven it isn't impossible.


TAGS: fast charging, Stockholm, Electric Ferry, Movitz, eco-friendly tech

 
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