Battery Hybrids & Full-Electric Vessels

ClassNK and Sompo Japan Insurance have joined forces to conduct risk assessments into autonomous ships.

Maine ferry operator, Casco Bay Lines, is installing ABB’s integrated hybrid-electric power and propulsion solution on its new vessel, cutting around 800 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year and significantly improving air…

Torqeedo and Poseidon have developed a fully electric, steerable thruster system ideal for manoeuvring climate-friendly ferries and water taxis on Europe’s inland waterways.

The innovative hybrid wellboat Ro Vision was the world’s first vessel of its type to feature a battery hybrid power and propulsion solution when it was delivered in March 2020.

Energy storage solutions (ESS) are turning up onboard an ever-increasing range of vessels, but batteries are not the only, or even the most suitable, solution for peak shaving a supersized demand. Flywheels…

Corvus Energy is trialling its Blue Whale energy storage system on board a Canadian Seaspan Ferries cargo ferry.

Wärtsilä is providing its hybrid solution for a new RoRo ferry being built for the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to serve the Kootenay Bay route.

As Ricardo expands its research into hydrogen storage and fuel cells, efficiency and operating costs give FCs an edge over internal combustion engines, Ricardo’s experts tell Paul Gunton.

Technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to supply a range of solutions to a new Ro-Pax ferry for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (IOMSP). The 132 metre-long vessel is being…