Originally Posted by Interceptor (Post 4764823)

Eventually diesel may be the remaining fuel source for internal combustion engines as land based transportation migrates to electric. Diesel would still be in use for some big stationary applications.

Originally Posted by Keith Atlanta (Post 4764828)

Yeah, you are right. Its coming but in heavy torque applications, the tesla tractor-trailer had 25,000 pounds of batteries. So yeah, its coming for cruisers but for performance boats we are still many years off. FWIW, a good friend of mine went to Georgia Tech and his degree is in advanced power systems. All of this can be done, but its not a question of if, its a question of cost. For comparison, over the last 3 years there have been a lot of speculation of people cheating in high level cycling, both Tour de France and Olympic Mountain bike style stuff. I was laughing and talking to him about this with an attitude of like yeah right - the battery would be huge. He laughed at me and said dude I have motors with enough torque that you could put in the hub and batties that are the size of a few C batties and could give him enough of an advantage that would last for 6 hours and enough power to win the race. So, the technology is there, its the production costs.... which will eventually come down.

Originally Posted by Matt Trulio (Post 4764743)

Well said and explained. Check this out (I'm sure you already have), https://nautique.com/models/super-ai...gs22e/overview.

Originally Posted by Matt Trulio (Post 4764743)

Well said and explained. Check this out (I'm sure you already have), https://nautique.com/models/super-ai...gs22e/overview.

Originally Posted by Jupiter Sunsation (Post 4764846)

From that link: 22 foot ski boat

MSRP* STARTING AT

$292,711

WATERSPORTS USE TIME

2-3 Hours

Originally Posted by Wildman_grafix (Post 4764871)

The point is the tech will get better and the cost will come down.

people used to laugh at electric cars, pretty much every major manufacturer makes one now.

i look forward to more electric, as demand for gas drops so will prices!

Originally Posted by Keith Atlanta (Post 4764829)

....another thought.

Its been hard enough for me to mentally adjust to the sound from a 100mph boat that had 1075's to a 100+ mph cat that has much quieter outboards. Now ya'll want to make them totally silent. SMH

Originally Posted by Jupiter Sunsation (Post 4764846)

From that link: 22 foot ski boat

MSRP* STARTING AT

$292,711

WATERSPORTS USE TIME

2-3 Hours

Originally Posted by flat rate (Post 4764913)

It’s going to be a long winter if we are already debating having electric boats !

Originally Posted by Biff (Post 4765147)

What hull is that with the the 6 OB's on it? Magnum?

Originally Posted by Biff (Post 4765147)

What hull is that with the the 6 OB's on it? Magnum?

Originally Posted by JPEROG (Post 4765042)

They are built in Orlando and are shipping them to Europe. Those people have no choice. They were pushed 20 years ago the same way we are being pushed today.

Joe

Originally Posted by techman (Post 4765254)

Did Volvo want to have an outboard in their lineup? I can't imagine what possible scenario they had in mind that would make that acquisition profitable.

Since Seven Marine went through the expense/engineering of marinizing a LSx and all it's associated controls/electrics, maybe it would be an easier path to convert them to I/O's? If gear cases were blowing up maybe the power/weight is more aligned with a stern drive application.

Originally Posted by JaayTeee (Post 4765298)

I doubt even Mercury is selling very many stern drive power packages now , they( Volvo) took a swing at it back when the market was hot, no need to try it again now when it isn’t

Originally Posted by thirdchildhood (Post 4765233)

If only we could break down water to an explosive mix of hydrogen and oxygen. But then again, would we really want to permanently deplete our water ....

Originally Posted by resurrected (Post 4765321)

Actually it's pretty easy to break it down, just a couple of anodes and DC current. Voila hydrogen generator, I haven't done it since high school and I assume it nets negative power through the process. Then when you burn it, the by product is water.