I plan on having an all electric boat in the distant future. Not so much to be eco-friendly, but mainly for convenience. If you make the kitchen and dinghy electric, you eliminate both propane and gasoline, so all you need is diesel as a backup. Plus you can generate power while sailing, which saves money. Not to mention it is quiet.
Hydrogeneration (recharging batteries from sail power) is already available today, and it is much cleaner and simpler to maintain than fossil engines. The future is now.
@@LoanwordEggcorn I plan on using hydrogeneration. The diesel engine would just be for backup. Actually, I was looking into a microturbine generator for backup. Fewer moving parts, no need for cooling, no oil to change, and it will burn just about anything flammable for fuel. In most cases, I wouldn't need it, but if I ended up at anchor for an extended period, or something like that, it would come in handy. Or say I get demasted, I can still motor somewhere, versus being dead in the water.
@@v12tommy You might look into eliminating diesel all together, i.e. solar + battery storage + hydrogen backup storage. That way everything is electric and you're going to save a ton of money of fossil fuels.
I see myself traveling around the world in this for 80% less than what superyacht owners would pay just owning this awesome new technology finally put to the seas.
Nice boat. I want a cat similar to the Silent 62 tri-deck w/ more teak , large motors and 4680 batteries. More conventional interior with a little less glitter, a high performance 18 foot dingy and a pad for the E-Vtol w/quiet fan blades for island exploration. Should be available in 5 years, about the same time as the Tesla stock approaches 10X valuation. The only hitch is I will be 70. Oh well it's about the pursuit of happiness 😊
If you are going to spend 4 million dollars on a boat, isn't it best to build one that creates no emissions? Bravo to the boat builders for pushing the state-of-the-art, and to the buyers of this for spending the extra money to go green. If only the naysayers would spend as much time posting negative comments about all the gas-guzzling superyachts first. I for one look forward to when this technology is available on all, including more modest, boats.
This comments section is glorious! I feed on the tears of all people triggered by someone trying to build a slightly more environmentally friendly yacht. "wElL iT iSn'T 100% cArBoN nEuTrAl sO wHat'S tHe PoInT". It's not an all or nothing game, it's not "Either you build a diesel tanker or you're 100% climate-neutral". By building it more environmentally friendly than other boats in its class it's a step on the way. You being triggered by that is more than a little sad. "How dare someone invest in a more eco-friendly yacht? Oh, the nerves on these rich people!!!"
@@Rodrifuuu Mostly it's ignorance and inertia. People don't like change. It's human nature. Fortunately clean energy is vastly more profitable long term, so economics is driving change.
Hey Toby, love your videos( I watch the Gunboat 66 video regularly..) As one of the majority of people watching this video, i.e. can only fantasise about sleeping on this, I'd love to see the view as one wakes up haha.
I am presuming that while sailing the props spin the motors in generator mode to recharge, along with the solar panels. So you sail to your destination, then motor around on electric power.
Yes. Electric motors and hydrogeneration (recharging batteries from sail power) already exist for normal sized sailboats. Electric is the future of transportation, but it's happening more slowly for boats than cars.
It’s seems to me that hydrogen fuel cells are the way to go with electric boating. Convert electricity to hydrogen while the boats is idle for weeks collecting sunlight, the back to electricity to run the boat while the owner is running it for a week
Sounds like a nice idea to investigate further on. Hydrogen much more complicated of course, needing a hydrogen 'factory' and compressor, compressed and cooled storage and large fuel cells. Maybe the factory and compressor could be in a separate floating box that remains at the quay.
Nobody complaining when a yacht doesn’t even try to be eco friendly, every body complaining when they try. People who don’t even try to be more environmentally friendly don’t get any hate and when someone tries and are not 100% eco friendly everybody complaining.
@@glennimmortal that may well be, but building a boat like this is actually a good thing that more builders should attempt and put onto the market. the technology and know-how need to be further developed. that'll never happen if builders don't create and people don't buy. so, the responses are still childish.
Doing better is all about timing and luck, or being born into the right family (very lucky). Most decent humans would and should feel like a real a-hole anchoring it on the shore of a country where the majority of people live near poverty.
@@orangemoonglows2692 The vast majority of advancements in technology are developed for military applications and then trickle down to the consumer. Are you saying going to war is justified because we get better GPS for our smartphones?
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@CJ Yet there is another aspect to it. The technology developed and paid for by these admittedly somewhat vain people can be applied to many fields of endeavour. The efficiency of modern automobiles was largely developed on race car circuits. The solar, wind and hydro generating capabilities being developed for the rich will benefit all of us.
Really nice Cat. Horrible mention on Greta! Love the solar, carbon, and e-motors while out cruising but let's be honest, the price to pay for all the over the top sustainability is lost in just 5 seconds from countries that don't care. But to each their own.
Long term, electric drive wins. Wind and solar energy are already cheaper than coal and nuclear. The transition to clean electricity is already very much in progress.
The interior is much nicer than Silent 60 but the running time of 6 hours is kind of low. They should add more solar panels or additional battery or hydrogen storage capacity.
I think the E would be great. Not really concerned about the environmental aspect, although that is good as well. Getting away from the maintenance of diesel and generators would be amazing. Probably keep a generator backup for back up.
Those solar panels are cool and all, but they do bugger-all in a practical sense on a boat this size, unless it's just a harbor queen. At 4.5kW, it takes roughly 30 hours of perfect charging conditions to fully charge the 134kW battery bank. Worse still, 134kW is absolutely tiny for a vessel this size. By comparison - a Tesla model S has a 100kW battery in its top model. Furthermore, twin 55kW drives running 6 hours on a 134kW pack means they'll be running at around 11.12 kW each (assuming 100% efficiency and discharge capability) - even factoring in 6 perfect hours of charging during this trip, that still only equates to 13.42kW per motor under absolutely ideal conditions. How much fun is a vessel this size and displacement cruising on 26.83kW of power? (36.5Hp) How would it cope with even slight currents or winds? For silent sailing, get a damn sailboat.
@@kelvinham8576 @Road Toad Yes, one name for it is hydrogeneration. It's like regenerative braking on an EV, but uses sail power to recharge the battery by using the electric motor as a generator. It means one can (electric) motor out of a harbor, raise the sails, then recharge the batteries using wind power from sailing. And it's available for more typical sailboats today.
There are so much more space/area to set more solar panel. I don't understand what those solar boat companies thinking. They could have 3 time's more solar panel on this huge cat.
a bit ticked off that the E aestetics should be compromised by those idiotic sunbeds at the front of the flybridge - these should be walk-on solar panels.
What's the problem? You'd just use wind to sail away if the batteries are dead (like a normal cat). And if there is no wind you'd just turn on the generators and power away using the electric drive anyway..
@blueboywhitie THE SUN!!! Then take a look at the naturally occurring fission reactor in Okio, Gabon.... naturally occurring. PS: When did Nagasaki build a fission reactor?
Not sure how sustainable this is with only 6 hrs of motering before batteries die. On a 5000 mile passage your going to need more then 6 hrs. Sometimes the wind just dies. I will be doing more research on this. Overall though the ability to be anonymous is perfect.
Great. Give me a reliable engine running on dead dinosaurs. I'm all for solar but isn't a sail about as eco friendly as it gets. Solar will keep lights on but we can't even get phones to keep a charge with use more than a couple hours without plugging back into good old fashioned coal, nuclear or oil burning power source. Ol' Greta stares at a phone and prius that are produced from oil and lectures working people on her diluted ideas.
@@chrisdowdy I live in a province that produces all it's energy from hydro.. So whatever I plug in, is powered by gravity. Every country, state and province has sources of clean energy that they could use. We just have to support those initiatives.
Eco friendly haha. When rich people try to justify their lifestyle they call this eco friendly... I am also interested how much subsidiary sunreef is getting?
Richard Vail I was thinking the same. She would approve anything coming for free, most sailing boats owners are conscientious about environment and we don’t need her approval
Come on ... Stupid to connect this to being eco friendly. Let us know how much carbondioxide was released to build this? How many trees were cut down to make room for mines extracting materials? How much oil was used to produced the plastic included in it?
Yeah I think it means relative to a typical diesel yacht like this, not compared to a caveman sitting in his cave. You must have miss the comment he made about NO plastics in the entire boat. If you don't consider fiberglass plastic I guess.
Erin Thor No they are a sealed unit and can be transported in any condition unlike lithium that must be transported at 30% charge . But don’t take my word for it . Do the research yourself.
@@natcalverley4344 I had found a company selling Aquion storage cells but Aquion went bankrupt! There are other distributors but they all seem to not be available... Every other search string only talks about research. I guess we will have to wait until someone else actually produces them...
As much as I love solar-electric boats: Somebody didn't do the maths. 4.2 kWp solar: realistically that's the equivalent of about 20 kWh per average 24h-day. Combined with 160 kWh batteries this translates to 8 (EIGHT!!) days to recharge the batteries on solar power alone (and that's without using any power for "household" appliances) and therefore makes it impossible to recharge sufficiently "on the go". For lots of time at anchor or in the marina and only the occasional short-distance coastal cruising or island hopping: great! But(!), calling it anything even remotely close to being fully autonomous is simply dishonest - not to mention that such a high displacement vessel with relatively wide hulls and lots of windage is very inefficient - exactly what you don't want with the very limited power of the sun. The ratio of solar peak power versus displacement is so grotesquely low that it seems more like a nice solar placebo. This boat will effectively mostly depend on recharging via shore power (or you'll depend on recharging via diesel generators!). That's not a bad thing per se, but should be communicated honestly. The solar-electric concept isn't complete nonsense in general, like some other examples show (Aquanima 40, SunConcept 12 ...) , but this one at best falls into the category "nice try".
6 hours running on the batteries is not enough. Hard to sell the eco idea on a giant plastic boat regardless of your recycled teak. The filthy rich are filthy thieves.
Hey...what do you do with those batteries when they die out? Where do you put them? Landfill? Hey...what about the collector panels? What do you do with those when they're no good? Highly toxic stuff to be ditching overboard or recycling center don't you think? I love how the conversation about climate is always about chemicals and science when the elephant in the room is overpopulation...but, no one wants a piece of that so I guess we'll keep on pretending the emperor's new clothes are stylish. **eats a crayon*
@@maciejtrybilo If it makes you feel any better, I love the boat. I don't like the sanctimonious climate crap. If you want to do good, then fine but don't go around lecturing everyone. It makes one look as if one enjoys one's own farts.
Solar cells last 50+ years and are still functional after that. Tesla's Lithium ion battery packs last 300,000+ miles of real world driving. Neither the solar cells nor batteries will wear out before the 2050.
Nothing triggers the Cons more than "virtue signalling" -- when there are still dead dinosaurs to pump out of the ground. Pretty sure the idea here, given the size of the power pack -- is to use solar for running "house" power and sail for propulsion. Mainly to be able to cruise and anchor and avoid marinas and buying fuel. That has always been the issue with big sailboats -- they have to run a generator a lot for things like making water or keeping the AC going. Its not really about "eco" as much as it is about zero dependency. But eco sounds better. (same as all the guys who put up solar panels at their offgrid houses then complain if a penny is spent to subsidize commercial solar - even whilst giving the oil companies sweet deals to drillbabydrill in wetlands, and Offshore, ect...)
Amusing...ECO...the boat is plastic...not wood not steel not aluminum. The sails are not canvas..they're made from petrochemicals... The perfect yacht for virtue signaling.. Amusing..
Just like Tesla owners, who spend a lot of money on showing off how good they are. Pathetic. If the drive line had been a diesel-electric hybrid then we can talk.
You show me a dead calm sea with no wind and I will point out the bright blue sky and bright sun. We have been sailing around the world for hundreds of years.
A beautiful Caribbean cruiser. Not fast or particularly agile, but luxuriously comfortable as only Sunreef can do.
Well done Toby, you do a great job on these reviews. This boat feels like a big leap toward the future of 'eco friendly lux cruisers'.
I plan on having an all electric boat in the distant future. Not so much to be eco-friendly, but mainly for convenience. If you make the kitchen and dinghy electric, you eliminate both propane and gasoline, so all you need is diesel as a backup. Plus you can generate power while sailing, which saves money. Not to mention it is quiet.
Hydrogeneration (recharging batteries from sail power) is already available today, and it is much cleaner and simpler to maintain than fossil engines. The future is now.
@@LoanwordEggcorn I plan on using hydrogeneration. The diesel engine would just be for backup. Actually, I was looking into a microturbine generator for backup. Fewer moving parts, no need for cooling, no oil to change, and it will burn just about anything flammable for fuel. In most cases, I wouldn't need it, but if I ended up at anchor for an extended period, or something like that, it would come in handy. Or say I get demasted, I can still motor somewhere, versus being dead in the water.
@@v12tommy You might look into eliminating diesel all together, i.e. solar + battery storage + hydrogen backup storage. That way everything is electric and you're going to save a ton of money of fossil fuels.
I see myself traveling around the world in this for 80% less than what superyacht owners would pay just owning this awesome new technology finally put to the seas.
Oh mate, I could definitely see myself on one of these! lol
The bigger the market becomes for EVs and EBs, the quicker the development of better battery technology and advancement in solar cell efficiency.
Amazing that this is only a 60 ft cat. Beautiful.
Love the Alpine wooden interior.
I think you said 6 to 10 hours cruising so what about the other 14 hours per day.
Nice boat. I want a cat similar to the Silent 62 tri-deck w/ more teak , large motors and 4680 batteries. More conventional interior with a little less glitter, a high performance 18 foot dingy and a pad for the E-Vtol w/quiet fan blades for island exploration. Should be available in 5 years, about the same time as the Tesla stock approaches 10X valuation. The only hitch is I will be 70. Oh well it's about the pursuit of happiness 😊
Its amazing how much more space there is on a 60ft catamaran vs a 60ft mono haul.
Kurt Borkman Not really surprising as it has double the footprint . Like two boats almost .
If you are going to spend 4 million dollars on a boat, isn't it best to build one that creates no emissions? Bravo to the boat builders for pushing the state-of-the-art, and to the buyers of this for spending the extra money to go green. If only the naysayers would spend as much time posting negative comments about all the gas-guzzling superyachts first. I for one look forward to when this technology is available on all, including more modest, boats.
@David Miorgan
You're such a misery guts lol.
David Miorgan lol
This comments section is glorious! I feed on the tears of all people triggered by someone trying to build a slightly more environmentally friendly yacht.
"wElL iT iSn'T 100% cArBoN nEuTrAl sO wHat'S tHe PoInT". It's not an all or nothing game, it's not "Either you build a diesel tanker or you're 100% climate-neutral". By building it more environmentally friendly than other boats in its class it's a step on the way. You being triggered by that is more than a little sad.
"How dare someone invest in a more eco-friendly yacht? Oh, the nerves on these rich people!!!"
Corporate propaganda works wonders. Millions of sheep defending the oligarchs that are destroying their children's future.
@@Rodrifuuu Mostly it's ignorance and inertia. People don't like change. It's human nature. Fortunately clean energy is vastly more profitable long term, so economics is driving change.
The same misery guts as David Moigans commentary lol
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Hey Toby, love your videos( I watch the Gunboat 66 video regularly..) As one of the majority of people watching this video, i.e. can only fantasise about sleeping on this, I'd love to see the view as one wakes up haha.
Thanks... I better try and organise a few nights aboard one to find out then! T
I am presuming that while sailing the props spin the motors in generator mode to recharge, along with the solar panels. So you sail to your destination, then motor around on electric power.
Yes. Electric motors and hydrogeneration (recharging batteries from sail power) already exist for normal sized sailboats. Electric is the future of transportation, but it's happening more slowly for boats than cars.
Sounds wonderful until lighting storm hits it...
I hope that thing has a diesel generator. I'd hate to be dependent on 134KW if I needed to get out of trouble.
it is an enviro catsratophe for dickheads. Hahaha
This boat needs at least 500 KWhr of batteries, and that's not even that expensive.
It's got a mast and a sail....
There are sails on the boat like a normal cat too. And yes I believe there are generators onboard (heard it from another video)
It seems all fine and dandy till it burst into flames like all the electric cars so good luck with that
The 'renewable' and 'green' aspect
is still to be shown, as well as the
assertion that CO2 is a pollutant.
✅ 😄
Yeah Toby, everyone's a critic. Nice boat, nice review. Nevermind the naysayers.
True that. Might not be perfect yet, but that will come and it’s far better than other non suistainable products
Lovely floating hotel!!
All very nice for living, but how do they sail with such large volume hulls and weight
Who cares if it looks like that... lol!
Wouldn't you be happy? I would!
It’s seems to me that hydrogen fuel cells are the way to go with electric boating. Convert electricity to hydrogen while the boats is idle for weeks collecting sunlight, the back to electricity to run the boat while the owner is running it for a week
Battery storage is a lot more accessible but I agree that hydrogen back up will greatly extend the range and would be very practical and desirable.
Sounds like a nice idea to investigate further on. Hydrogen much more complicated of course, needing a hydrogen 'factory' and compressor, compressed and cooled storage and large fuel cells.
Maybe the factory and compressor could be in a separate floating box that remains at the quay.
found this: th-cam.com/video/pgdXbe1in64/w-d-xo.html
Did he say it weights 50 tons? does it actually move?
Nobody complaining when a yacht doesn’t even try to be eco friendly, every body complaining when they try. People who don’t even try to be more environmentally friendly don’t get any hate and when someone tries and are not 100% eco friendly everybody complaining.
I don't think anyone complains about 'trying'
but truly 'eco-friendly' would be;
powered by unicorns.
I hope you are not serious about this Bagel Barge 😂 I always remember your quote from the Gunboat 66 👌 Nothing sails better than a Gunboat 🇫🇷 ⛵️
y do so many people mock attempts to do better?
Because it's all for show
@@glennimmortal that may well be, but building a boat like this is actually a good thing that more builders should attempt and put onto the market. the technology and know-how need to be further developed. that'll never happen if builders don't create and people don't buy. so, the responses are still childish.
Doing better is all about timing and luck, or being born into the right family (very lucky). Most decent humans would and should feel like a real a-hole anchoring it on the shore of a country where the majority of people live near poverty.
@@orangemoonglows2692 The vast majority of advancements in technology are developed for military applications and then trickle down to the consumer. Are you saying going to war is justified because we get better GPS for our smartphones?
@CJ Yet there is another aspect to it. The technology developed and paid for by these admittedly somewhat vain people can be applied to many fields of endeavour. The efficiency of modern automobiles was largely developed on race car circuits. The solar, wind and hydro generating capabilities being developed for the rich will benefit all of us.
Really nice Cat. Horrible mention on Greta! Love the solar, carbon, and e-motors while out cruising but let's be honest, the price to pay for all the over the top sustainability is lost in just 5 seconds from countries that don't care. But to each their own.
Long term, electric drive wins. Wind and solar energy are already cheaper than coal and nuclear. The transition to clean electricity is already very much in progress.
I think a big part of it is not having to go into port as often (for gas)
I can see some funny tan lines under those solar panels
what a heavenly lounge the flybridge makes - that teak decking and the speckled light filtering through the solar cells...drool drool...
The interior is much nicer than Silent 60 but the running time of 6 hours is kind of low. They should add more solar panels or additional battery or hydrogen storage capacity.
I think the E would be great. Not really concerned about the environmental aspect, although that is good as well. Getting away from the maintenance of diesel and generators would be amazing. Probably keep a generator backup for back up.
A Diesel generator backup?!?
Oooh ye of little faith lol.
Starts at 2.5 mill Euro there is a easy million in upgrades. So you are looking at a 4mill US plus. For a 60 foot catamaran?
Normal fiyati elektrikli catamaran ne kadar
how is it autonomous?
Toby, you can't show an E boat and not show the e-Motor room! WTF man 😕
Those solar panels are cool and all, but they do bugger-all in a practical sense on a boat this size, unless it's just a harbor queen. At 4.5kW, it takes roughly 30 hours of perfect charging conditions to fully charge the 134kW battery bank. Worse still, 134kW is absolutely tiny for a vessel this size. By comparison - a Tesla model S has a 100kW battery in its top model.
Furthermore, twin 55kW drives running 6 hours on a 134kW pack means they'll be running at around 11.12 kW each (assuming 100% efficiency and discharge capability) - even factoring in 6 perfect hours of charging during this trip, that still only equates to 13.42kW per motor under absolutely ideal conditions. How much fun is a vessel this size and displacement cruising on 26.83kW of power? (36.5Hp) How would it cope with even slight currents or winds?
For silent sailing, get a damn sailboat.
It is a sailboat
@ Didn't catch that. Didn't realize there was such a thing. Cool.
It is a sail boat. I'd assume there is regeneration from spinning props when under sail.
@@kelvinham8576 @Road Toad Yes, one name for it is hydrogeneration. It's like regenerative braking on an EV, but uses sail power to recharge the battery by using the electric motor as a generator. It means one can (electric) motor out of a harbor, raise the sails, then recharge the batteries using wind power from sailing. And it's available for more typical sailboats today.
Si na ten dvoudenní charter vezmu hypotéku :D
how much?
There are so much more space/area to set more solar panel. I don't understand what those solar boat companies thinking.
They could have 3 time's more solar panel on this huge cat.
a bit ticked off that the E aestetics should be compromised by those idiotic sunbeds at the front of the flybridge - these should be walk-on solar panels.
can this catamaran circumvent the globe?
Absolutely; On a barge.
I'll be buying one in 2026.
10 hours to recharge! That tsunami wont wait for me that long :(
What's the problem? You'd just use wind to sail away if the batteries are dead (like a normal cat). And if there is no wind you'd just turn on the generators and power away using the electric drive anyway..
Nuclear is eco.
@blueboywhitie THE SUN!!! Then take a look at the naturally occurring fission reactor in Okio, Gabon.... naturally occurring.
PS: When did Nagasaki build a fission reactor?
@blueboywhitie New Gen 4 reactors prevent the possibility of meltdowns. Fission is a very important part of solving clean energy production globally
No day heads?
_Ah yess... Big_ *E* _meme_
Not sure how sustainable this is with only 6 hrs of motering before batteries die. On a 5000 mile passage your going to need more then 6 hrs. Sometimes the wind just dies. I will be doing more research on this. Overall though the ability to be anonymous is perfect.
Folks, take it easy. It's just typo. Not ECO, it's someones EGO boat. That explains everything, right?
Nico Rosbergs?
If it ever catches fire with that many lithium battery systems. You would have to sink it to put it out...
The amount of CO2 generated in producing this boat will take 250 years to pay back.
Pay back to who?
Fun fact: it would take about the same amount of CO2 to build a diesel version. I'm not sure your argument makes a lot of sense.
True, but what would my hipster friends think about me ridding around in an old style diesel
Great. Give me a reliable engine running on dead dinosaurs. I'm all for solar but isn't a sail about as eco friendly as it gets. Solar will keep lights on but we can't even get phones to keep a charge with use more than a couple hours without plugging back into good old fashioned coal, nuclear or oil burning power source. Ol' Greta stares at a phone and prius that are produced from oil and lectures working people on her diluted ideas.
@@chrisdowdy I live in a province that produces all it's energy from hydro.. So whatever I plug in, is powered by gravity. Every country, state and province has sources of clean energy that they could use. We just have to support those initiatives.
Some day - all things can run on zero gravity system which was invented in 1954.
لا لا من غير اشرعه سايلنت بكره يسون واحد ٢٤ ساعه شغال سهل وبسيط كبر التنده وكثر البطاريات
Dear Santa...
If this ship is eco, each container vessel is it. LOL
Eco luxury? That’s like a friendly war. 🤷♂️
هذ تمام هذ الاقتصادي تقدر تدفه
Eco friendly haha. When rich people try to justify their lifestyle they call this eco friendly...
I am also interested how much subsidiary sunreef is getting?
Mate it's sooo eco. They don't use plastic but instead Carbon fibre 😂. Must be better for the environment right 🤦?
You lost me at "Greta Thunberg would like this boat"...
Richard Vail I was thinking the same. She would approve anything coming for free, most sailing boats owners are conscientious about environment and we don’t need her approval
Virtue signaling at its finest
Come on ... Stupid to connect this to being eco friendly. Let us know how much carbondioxide was released to build this? How many trees were cut down to make room for mines extracting materials? How much oil was used to produced the plastic included in it?
Yeah I think it means relative to a typical diesel yacht like this, not compared to a caveman sitting in his cave. You must have miss the comment he made about NO plastics in the entire boat. If you don't consider fiberglass plastic I guess.
2.5 million euros 😂😂😂 For the rich guys I think
Osman Nuri ATICI abi nedin hiç anlamadım hep ingiliç çe yazmışsın ki
The first cellphones cost $4000 and weighed 1 kilo. Progress needs to happen. Much smaller boats are getting hydrogenerated electric drivetrains.
Probably more than that since its customized.. Still a lot of money though, I want these electric 60 footers to be around USD1M base price
If they wanted to be eco friendly why did they not use sodium ion batteries instead of lithium ion.
Aren’t those the old military batteries that explode when they come in contact with water? 😱
Do you know where they are available? I'm looking for some for residential storage use...
k m If you google them there is a supplier out of New Zealand.
Erin Thor No they are a sealed unit and can be transported in any condition unlike lithium that must be transported at 30% charge . But don’t take my word for it . Do the research yourself.
@@natcalverley4344 I had found a company selling Aquion storage cells but Aquion went bankrupt! There are other distributors but they all seem to not be available... Every other search string only talks about research. I guess we will have to wait until someone else actually produces them...
So you pay a few million and can ONLY cruise for six hours . I don’t think so.
Its a sailing yacht. It isn't for motor boating around. Motors for coming in to dock and short term moving and emergency
You realize there are sails on this boat, right?
recycled paper :) is the point fsdaljfoa
Let's dump €4M into a catamaran so it can motor for 6 hours...
It's a sailboat too.
If they can't see that telling them don't help the ignorant
It's not a boat !!! It's a bug piece of an apartment. Won't go sailing with that...
As much as I love solar-electric boats: Somebody didn't do the maths. 4.2 kWp solar: realistically that's the equivalent of about 20 kWh per average 24h-day. Combined with 160 kWh batteries this translates to 8 (EIGHT!!) days to recharge the batteries on solar power alone (and that's without using any power for "household" appliances) and therefore makes it impossible to recharge sufficiently "on the go". For lots of time at anchor or in the marina and only the occasional short-distance coastal cruising or island hopping: great! But(!), calling it anything even remotely close to being fully autonomous is simply dishonest - not to mention that such a high displacement vessel with relatively wide hulls and lots of windage is very inefficient - exactly what you don't want with the very limited power of the sun. The ratio of solar peak power versus displacement is so grotesquely low that it seems more like a nice solar placebo. This boat will effectively mostly depend on recharging via shore power (or you'll depend on recharging via diesel generators!). That's not a bad thing per se, but should be communicated honestly.
The solar-electric concept isn't complete nonsense in general, like some other examples show (Aquanima 40, SunConcept 12 ...) , but this one at best falls into the category "nice try".
6 hours running on the batteries is not enough. Hard to sell the eco idea on a giant plastic boat regardless of your recycled teak. The filthy rich are filthy thieves.
laughable
A lot of misinformation guess work that is really doing this yacht a huge disservice. Very superficial and poorly presented attempt at a video blog.
You lost me at Greta
Eco luxury?? Whatever helps the rich sleep at night.
Hey...what do you do with those batteries when they die out? Where do you put them? Landfill? Hey...what about the collector panels? What do you do with those when they're no good? Highly toxic stuff to be ditching overboard or recycling center don't you think? I love how the conversation about climate is always about chemicals and science when the elephant in the room is overpopulation...but, no one wants a piece of that so I guess we'll keep on pretending the emperor's new clothes are stylish.
**eats a crayon*
On a sailing boat those batteries as well as cells will last decades. Then they can be recycled. I get a whiff of you wanting to dislike it.
@@maciejtrybilo You don't know that. You're guessing. Nice try.
@@maciejtrybilo If it makes you feel any better, I love the boat. I don't like the sanctimonious climate crap. If you want to do good, then fine but don't go around lecturing everyone. It makes one look as if one enjoys one's own farts.
Solar cells last 50+ years and are still functional after that. Tesla's Lithium ion battery packs last 300,000+ miles of real world driving. Neither the solar cells nor batteries will wear out before the 2050.
Nothing triggers the Cons more than "virtue signalling" -- when there are still dead dinosaurs to pump out of the ground.
Pretty sure the idea here, given the size of the power pack -- is to use solar for running "house" power and sail for propulsion. Mainly to be able to cruise and anchor and avoid marinas and buying fuel. That has always been the issue with big sailboats -- they have to run a generator a lot for things like making water or keeping the AC going.
Its not really about "eco" as much as it is about zero dependency. But eco sounds better. (same as all the guys who put up solar panels at their offgrid houses then complain if a penny is spent to subsidize commercial solar - even whilst giving the oil companies sweet deals to drillbabydrill in wetlands, and Offshore, ect...)
Amusing...ECO...the boat is plastic...not wood not steel not aluminum.
The sails are not canvas..they're made from petrochemicals...
The perfect yacht for virtue signaling..
Amusing..
Nothing is stopping you or anyone else from making an electric boat from steel or aluminum. In fact it is already happening.
How about you keep the absurd political statements out of the entire experience? Referencing Greta thornburg? Very poor taste..
Just like Tesla owners, who spend a lot of money on showing off how good they are. Pathetic. If the drive line had been a diesel-electric hybrid then we can talk.
Fredrik Wallinder you just jealous that you don’t have a tesla or a catamaran
E boat built for coastline hugging wannabees.....at least put a small diesel gen a s a power source backup for that puny solar/battery setup....
it has a huge honking sail...
@@redwolfexr means NOTHING when theres zero wind pushing on it......
You show me a dead calm sea with no wind and I will point out the bright blue sky and bright sun. We have been sailing around the world for hundreds of years.
Well if you look into it it has options of generators so your not stranded
Dear Santa...