Cigarette Racing Releases Electric 38’ Top Gun
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It doesn't look like a hybrid but a pure electrically driven boat with batteries. I would think you need to look at recharge time and voltage to recharge it, can't imagine you plug it into the wall outlet. I assume 220V/240V single phase like any typical shore power connection would be. You run it for a few hours and need to get it charged for how long before it can't driven back home?
It's interesting if nothing else.
It's interesting if nothing else.
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Thanks, Jason. As J can attest, when you're cutting and pasting—and rewriting—at full speed it's easy to omit key words. Yikes. Again, sorry for the confusion.
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It doesn't look like a hybrid but a pure electrically driven boat with batteries. I would think you need to look at recharge time and voltage to recharge it, can't imagine you plug it into the wall outlet. I assume 220V/240V single phase like any typical shore power connection would be. You run it for a few hours and need to get it charged for how long before it can't driven back home?
It's interesting if nothing else.
It's interesting if nothing else.
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My golf cart has 1/4 as many batteries as we see in those pictures and it doesn't weigh 14,000 lbs and I would imagine one of those motors could drain them in 30 seconds. How does this whole set up work in principal? Just doesn't seem like near enough batteries or anything of significance to recharge them.
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You must have a big azz golf cart! I am thinking that what you see next to the engines are capacitors, the batteries take up the entire area that is used for fuel tanks, plus some
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I think someone figured out on FB it would run 14 minutes at WOT. It takes 20 min for me to get out of our channel, to open water. I would guess it would not even have enough battery at idle speed to make it out the channel and back.
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It's not for production, it's a cool marketing piece and I can see it going around to select MB dealers for display, I think it will do what it was designed to do - get lots of press!
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Thats some interesting stuff for sure!!
4bus, i think those "capacitors" you are talking about may be inverters to change the power over to 3 phase....wonder what kind of power those motor draw? The gearbox sure looks cool too
4bus, i think those "capacitors" you are talking about may be inverters to change the power over to 3 phase....wonder what kind of power those motor draw? The gearbox sure looks cool too
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Now if the batteries were omitted and a diesel generator capable enough to handle the load was installed, I think that could be a viable offshore boat. Im just surprised Cig jumped into electrics this early.