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valhalla360
Feb 05, 2018Navigator
John & Angela wrote:
Interesting read on Norway changing all their ferries to Electric and seeing 80 percent cost savings on operating costs. No idea how that would cross to the trucking world though.
https://newatlas.com/norway-electric-car-ferry/25756/
Here's a link to it. A few things that jump out.
More than 2/3 of the fuel savings appear to be due to the new lighter weight catamaran design as the old ferry runs at 1500kw and the new one at 400kw, so it's mostly about a more efficient hull design which could easily be adapted for smaller more fuel efficient diesel engines.
I checked on Google Earth and it's about a 3mile run each way with charging on both ends. The run is about 20minutes (one way) and it does a run approximately every 42 minutes (34 per day) so it has 22minutes of charging between runs on average.
This is a use case where pure electric can work though it sounds like they put in a huge amount of infrastructure to accommodate it as the chargers were too big for the small town electric infrastructure, so they have chargers constantly charging on shore battery banks which then dump thru high speed chargers to the boat battery banks.
Edit: Just found, it's actually a plug in hybrid, so they aren't trusting it yet.
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