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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.

Stationary applications like charging batteries lol

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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.

I think it would still work. So you add 25,000 lbs to a 41 apache all you would have to do is make the lifting strakes 16” wide.

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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.

You beat me to that link. Electric boats are coming...

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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.

From that link: 22 foot ski boat

MSRP* STARTING AT

$292,711

WATERSPORTS USE TIME

2-3 Hours

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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

holy crap that’s a lot of coin for a 22

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!

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Originally Posted by Wildman_grafix (Post 4764871)

I don’t see gas prices going down with the new green deal bs

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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

If you want to go there I'll take the sound of jet fuel guzzling turbines over either!

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

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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

This is insane. Who on earth is going to spend $300k on a wakeboard boat that can only be used 2-3 hours at a time? For that kind of money, get a Pavati