Electric ships

[ombugge]

Europe cannot afford to sleepwalk into Chinese-built electric corridors -...

EU climate packages and shore-power rules, along with national schemes such as Norway’s Enova, have spurred a wave of electric ferries and shortsea pilots. But European policy still advances port by port and project by project, rather than treating the electric corridor layer as strategic infrastructure. Whoever wires up the first generation of electric corridors will write the technical and commercial rulebook. The question for Europe is whether it wants to help write that rulebook or just sign up to it later.

[Jughead]

@ombugge

The question for Europe is whether it wants to help write that rulebook or just sign up to it later.

The question for Europe is whether it wakes up in time to kill every last idiotic emissions reduction boondoggle before a once-great continent strangles itself in its own suicidal zealotry.

[ombugge]

China's electric ship rollout scales up - Splash247

This mirrors the playbook that made China dominant in electric vehicles, solar and batteries

In 2022, China had only four electric cargo ships. By 2025, that number had risen to 42, a 950% increase in three years.
The fleet has also diversified beyond small demonstrators, with electric bulk carriers, containerships and multipurpose cargo ships entering service. Maximum vessel size has climbed from around 3,000 dwt in 2022 to about 14,000 dwt in 2025, while operating range has improved from typical levels of 150 km to 400 km to as much as 500 km for some vessels now in service.

No, it is NOT enough to cross oceans, but a lot of coastal, lake and river shipping is short distance services.

When will the first ATB with electric propulsion be offered on the market?

[Hogsnort]

Navigation on the Yangtze river works. About 100 million tons of freight is shipped past the 3 gorges dam each year.