Water & electricity? We try out electric boats!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- We were always told that water and electricity don't mix but that's quickly changing as Gav found out when he went for a ride in a 100% pure electric boat, running off nothing but solar power. The future sure sounds good!
Special thanks must go to Chris from electricboat.co.nz for tolerating an entire afternoon of Gav's terrible jokes!
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Top video, you Kiwis are leaps and bounds in front of us here over the pond with your electric take up. Well done 👍
this is a Must try
You've got me dreaming of an electric speedboat swap now! Great video Gavin!
We do electric speedboats too! Get in touch!
@@electric-boat unfortunately, I'm on the other side of the world from you guys. But I appreciate the offer!
This is one of those perfect use cases for electric power. I suspect that in a remarkably short amount of time, all river/lake/inshore leisure and work boats will be fully electric. It makes perfect sense. It will take on very quickly
Incredible! You can Talk between the two boats!
Just WOW!
Gav must have the best job ever
Climate positive is where it's at
Love it!
Great video. Hilarious that we all paid for 40% of it but there you go. A perfect use case for an electric boat. Once you need to go further, faster it all falls apart so I’ll be buying diesel for mine for awhile yet.
We do lots of electric boats which go far or fast. We supply hybrid systems too, so you can retrofit a hybrid system to your existing diesel engine. After that you'll rarely start the diesel but it's still there for the occasional long passage and the hybrid unit will rapidly charge your batteries at the same time as your old diesel is propelling the boat. - Chris from electric boat co nz
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Listened to your interview on rnz with Kathryn Ryan. Excellent job Gavin, eloquently countering key points that the neigh sayers mindlessly blurt out in incomprehensible befuddledisms. [That, made up(?) word sounds like something Gavin would use]. 🤣😂😅
Thanks mate. I was so incredibly nervous! My poor heart. :)
So awesome
That leak is following you around !
I'm converting an old Seagull to electric, so I'll be very interested in the next episode to see what I'm aiming for.
IMHO it's not a good idea to convert a Seagull, the propeller and drivetrain is very inefficient. It would certainly be cheaper and easier just to buy a purpose built electric outboard with an efficient direct drive motor at the bottom of the leg and an optimal propeller shape, it will last a lot longer and get much more range out of your battery. - Chris from the electric boat co.
@@electric-boat Hi Chris, I agree, but where's the fun in that 😊 The Seagull is not in running order, I have a 48V DC motor, and a stack of recycled lithium cells, all up I have spent about $250 on parts. I might need another $50 of waterproofing and a battery case, but I can't see anything close to that price range other than little trolling motors.
@@djotter Well if you're doing it for fun and you have the bits then why not! I would still at least change the propeller, people actually did know how to make efficient propellers in the 1950s but Seagull avoided those and tried quite hard to make their designs as rudimentary and agricultural as possible, it was their whole design ethos!
I don't want to just comment a generic "fantastic, well done Gavin" comment. I'd prefer to comment something clever and witty. But alas I am neither... idea's anyone???
Potatotastic? :D
These would be ideal in Australia on the Murray River. Mooring is also a costly item if you own but hiring is ideal. Do they have electric boats that have a trailer system?
Both of the boats in the video are trailer launched although we keep them moored in the water most of the time for convenience. We have a wide range of trailer launched electric boats available and can have them shipped direct to Australia from the boatbuilder in Europe, or we can supply an electric inboard or outboard for an existing trailer launched boat.
@@electric-boat Can I ask do you have a website ? They are amazing boats for enclosed water ways.
@@gregorymcleod the address is on the side of the boat!
Fantastic,NZ must be a 100 years ahead of Australia.
The boats are from Europe..
so that's about 10kWh battery, not bad.
yes whats rabge 10 jw batery
So peacefull cruising. What is the max speed on these.?
The Frolic 21 has a souped up 2.5kw Lynch motor so it will do over 6 knots, and it can still do about 6 knots towing two other boats - the speed of a displacement boat is limited by the length of the waterline not by the amount of power it has. With the limiter switched on then we restrict it to 3-4 knots so it can't do more than the 5 knot speed limit even with the wind behind. The Ruban Bleu Scoop has a permanently enabled limiter so it is always restricted to 3-4 knots. If you could switch off the limiter then the shorter waterline would limit the maximum speed to 5.4 knots, the same maximum speed as any other boat of that length.
The editor has cut the hazy ipa consumption, was that in error m
Hang on, some important figures needed here - where's the PSC? I mean, tourism is all fair enough, but think of the environmentally friendly potato** haulage business that could use these!
**Other tubiferous plant-based choices are available, but, y'know, why would anyone bother...?!
Wait... do potatoes float? -Gav
PSC?
Pretty boring video for two boats being involved. JAJAJA
I encourage you to create a better video! I'd really love to see it! -Gav