Electric Powered Cargo Ships

The battery powered barges pictured above are capable of carrying 280 containers.

Electric powered cargo ships.

Though it will be able to carry 2 200 tons of cargo with. In battery powered ships than in ships burning incredibly polluting heavy fuels even. China just launched its first all electric cargo ship which will travel 50 miles at a top speed of 8 miles per hour on a single charge. Electric ferries also sail on other rivers.

Other stats for china s cargo ship include being 70 5 meters 230 feet in length a battery capacity of 2 400 kwh and a travel speed of 12 8 kilometers per hour 8 mph. Cruise ship ferry and cargo ship builders are developing hybrid and electric ships to reduce reliance on fuels like diesel and heavy fuel oil that power most large vessels. A new all electric cargo ship with a massive 2 4 mwh battery pack in china and. The norwegian forum for autonomous ships was established in 2016 as cleantechnica reported here and norway began looking at autonomous electric ships as an ideal solution for norway s large.

We have recently reported on several large ferries going all electric and now a massive cargo ship in china. Dubbed zhongtiandianyun 001 the ship s battery capacity is 1 458 kwh equivalent to 40 electric cars and can sail for up to 50km with 2 5 hours of shore power charging. Though 10 percent may seem a bit paltry cargo ships suck up huge amounts of power. Cleantechnica reports that guangzhou shipyard international in china has built the world s first 100 battery electric cargo ship.

On the ruhr in witten germany two electrically powered ships are in use and in berlin the four solar powered ferries fährbär 1 to 4 have been sailing on the spree since 2014. Just as commercial flight will go electric first on short haul.