What are they going to do in California, they have rolling black outs now, they can't provide enough electricity to power homes. How are you going to have enough electricity to charge your car, boat and keep the lights on in your house or business?

Electric motors powered by generators run by giant diesel engines!

^ Exactly! A bit off topic here but behind those electric motors is a big fuel chugging generator. And that spent fuel from those nuclear reactors is easy to dispose of...

aoc is building a solar powered 747 in the vacant lot next to her house. She used all China parts. What’s the worst that could happen

Not to split hairs but...no, nuclear powered ships don't use electric motors to drive the ship...they use the reactor to generate steam to power steam turbines...that drive the ship through a gearbox, not via electric motors.

I think we'll see more vehicles powered by electricity in the future, but NEVER to boats like ours...ain't happening, at least in our lifetimes, not without some unforeseen technology 'breakthrough', anyways...and still, at least 25+ years off. For the foreseeable future, nothing beats fossil fuels.

I predict a lot of boats hitting the market soon as between the tax hikes and war on fossil fuels. A lot of people won’t be able to afford recreational performance boating, let alone refitting their rig with electric motors.

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.

You may want to do some research before posting..........

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.

....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