Range with quiet comfort (beautiful interior and gyro required) for a retired couple, is all i’m asking for. Aside from something that doesn’t empty my bank account.
I hope you can discover a comfortable mid-cabin cruisers that utilizes a semi-displacement hull to travel serious distance (1000nm at 10knts) or pick up the pace to avert a problem (300nm at ?knts) instead of the usual planing combustion boats. An elongated roof (no bimini needed) for solar panels would be smart. I love the comfort of a practical saxdor 320/400gtc but i don’t need the 40mph so i could cruise (a cabin cruiser because rain happens) to multiple fueling stations when vacationing for a week visiting coastal towns. That sounds perfect for mediterranean sea.
I just subscribed because i think you’re in the right direction. I believe the future is a hybrid of solar and hydrogen for electric propulsion. There’s a prototype boat using it now, but mainstream combustion boating is becoming as extinct as the dinosaurs the fuel comes from. A boat exists on water and is generally in the sun, why not use the environment to power a boat …that’s using your brains. Ps i love the tyde icon but for all it’s modernity and even the foil technology it really needs to utilize seawater to do hydrogen propulsion.
Welcome to the channel Yanassi, glad to have you! Both Solar and Hydrogen have some very interesting possibilities with on board energy production and storage. There are some companies such as Elvene that has an operational boat with infinite range from solar panels at a low speed. Another company mad blue currently has an operational hydrogen powered electric boat. We're hoping to make some videos with them soon!
Wish I had the resources to do stuff like this. Great work. Thumbs up! Some foils that deploy on hydraulics under the hull could be really nice but I guess it's no longer a rib after that. Could be the eventual evolution of rib. rib foil.
Here is Washington State, we currently have two EV's and looking at getting enough solar with battery backup to provide all our needs. Watching this EV RIB boat trip is inspiring.
personally i don't see electric small boats ever being popular with the technology at this level. 25-30 mile @ 20 knot range is just far too short, and this boat has a double battery set up? sure it might do more distance at 5 knots, but who buys a rib to go 5 knots? at that point i would rather just sail at least then you have some shelter and space onboard. I wonder how the price point compares to a standard petrol powered rib of the same size? Also, just for fun.... Electric price in the uk is 24.5p/kWh currently, so lets assume no losses from the charger, 24.5x126 (the size of the battery) = £30.87 to charge it up. 25-30 nm range, so price per mile is somewhere between £1.029-£1.23/mile A modern outboard powered rib of similar size will do anywhere between 0.8-1.2l/mile, marine fuel in the uk is currently between £1.72-1.98 (MDL Marina website) so cost to run a petrol rib/mile would be between £1.37-£2.37 depending where you fill up and the actual economy of the particular boat.
It depends you can build in a lot of permanent buoyancy .. and you can have none inflatable pVC tubed ribs.. another feature used on RLNI ribs is they fit the cages with emergency inflating self righting bags.
depends how many sections, but i doubt it would survive much, it looks like it has a very shallow V (most likely to make it plane more efficiently for greater range), and sits quite low in the water already
@@tomredman yeah i noticed that, thats why i asked. i remember watching an alfred montaner video and when they were discussing off shore ribs (gasoline ones) they said one should think of a rib as a normal boat but with a 'life jacket' on. And that the tube is just an extra layer of security i.e. the rib should still float if the tube were to deflate. but i suppose this ability does not apply to all ribs (please correct me if im wrong)
@@ltownandfriends4531 normally you would expect the rib to still float, but this one looks to be bearing a fair amount of weight on the tube already at rest. The tubes will be devided into sections, on this boat probably 5. If you only lost one section, it'd probably be fine. But in any kind of rougher weather I'm not sure I would want to find out! Especially seeing that it doesn't seem to have drains fitted in the transom.
The range measured in hours was reading 10 minutes at WOT with 50% battery, that is using up the battery quick, your looking at a 20 mile range at WOT on a full charge 😂😂😂😂
I had wondered about something similar for high performance stepped hull boats, if you inject just a little bit of air at each "step" in the hull it SHOULD help you get up on plane faster/easier.
Thanks. I’ve gladly seen the updates on power, efficiency, smaller form factors, i do wonder about cruising range when fuel is not used: hulls that ergonomically fit batteries that become the keel with less invasion into the living space for cruising comfort. Basically i see e-boating as growing into the possible unlimited range of sailing (at 8-12k) with the temporary ability to outrun a storm (maybe 40k) if necessary. I guess maximizing the roof and number of solar panels is expected on a cabin cruiser.
Biggest virtue signal I've seen yet. I would expect everyone on this boat to have a pair of jeans with rips in them so we know their part of the peasant class.
Your piece didn't mention horsepower equivalent, range, top speed, dimensions, weight, onboard storage or price. Lesson learnt, if I want to see useful informative videos look at other content providers. A waste of nine minutes of my life.
I think is a very good idea for charging the boat with fast charging. This tráiler can be instálled in any beach, and recharg the boat while swiming. Díesel generadores are good idea too but the are too noisy to be in a beach, an Also because the smoke
It’s pronounced Por-Sha. Not Porsh. You should have shown the engine bay. Is it jet drive or turning an inboard propeller? What have they done to protect all f the electrical components from the corrosive effects of salt water? Where do you charge the boat? How much does it weigh vs an ICE version of the same boat? And of course range questions.
Beautiful boat and very neat work ..i also noted the classic RR or Bently in the background. Someone clearly recognises this places workmanship. I would want to pad that rough concrete mooring he pulled up to with all that perfect bright work 😉😂🧙🏻♂️🇬🇧 Just as a mention and on the same topic Nautistyles Paid a visit to Holland and Germany and having taken a trip on a wonderfull old large companies directors vintage motor launch that had been converted. They visited a local company that was doing this fine work on original pleasure launches that the company had built in the years between the wars mostly.. they restored them and then converted them so they could still be used on lakes and rivers. Again very elegant slipper hull designs. By converting they increased their performance in many cases as well as cleaning up the whole buisness of owning and running boats that would have run quite crude automobile petrol engines. 😎⚡🌀🌊
@@aqualectric-gi2ln There's an awful lot of diesel di-hards out there that don't seem to accept the fact that it's Possible to power a boat using electric motors and use a smaller power pack but back it up with a separate high efficiency generator running on multiple fuels and still make an equivalent 20- 30% fuel saving over a troublesome and complex diesel engine.. that still has to be supported by high output alternators, solar/wind turbines or an actual separate and heavy generator🤔 Take a look at Windelo's work and the visits done by the barefoot doctors ...I mentioned your work to them.. They are back cruising in Turkey this week...a major boat building and sailing center for Europe and beyond. They are trying to work out what system would suit their Al Portofino performance cruising cat. The big Chinese companies have announced they will reduce the price per KWhr of batteries by 50% by the end of this year and by 2028/30 to a point where it will cost I think the boss of Cattle said, to less than $30 per KWhr. Check the Australian Vikings channel. The other things that are coming up fast are Na batteries with capacities bettering Li Phosphate cells and whole new chemistries using Sulpher and Al.
Thanks to Sophi and for joining forces with Plug boat ... ive tried helping various people by pointing them to their Whats actually available resources but we know what happens to usefull fact technical links 🙄 or even mentioning alternative tech information or Scientific research papers. 🌌🧙🏼♂️🇬🇧 Theres some very irrational and reactionary comments come flying in when you mention electric propulsion .. but theres also a lack genuine experience reaching the public . Theres not just the propulsion technology that needs to change but also the materials construction and design philosophies...and how boats are built, used and ultimately repurposed and recycled. Congratulations for de fugging this one in action ... describing the max sea state of various models might have helped ... however as this is Scandinavian boat you know that they are going to have covered that in their development. If you want to go fast on water its simply more efficient to mostly terrain fly over it. Simple 😎.
I know Mann had RRoyce do some work on their generator engines they produced a bolt on adapter kit that increased the efficiency of the engines by 30%... Im suprised she didnt mention that. 🤔
Why did you choose a displacement hull and not a pontoon style hull? Seems like more efficient displacement would offer longer battery life. Also, what it the entire weight of the boat? We do swim support in the SF Bay and these would be really great since our longest swims are around 12 miles at around 3-5 knots. All and All, still a very cool boat. . . .
Pure Watercraft actually has a Pontoon that they are releasing very soon, which actually has a partial hydro-foil wing for added efficiency. As for the Highfield rib, there are different applications for different boats and its always great to have options. The weight of the Highfield 420 with 1 battery pack is 911 lbs.
I am waiting for them to add some basic features so I go ahead and place my order... 1) Tesla charging port since was adopted last year as standard; 2)GPS maps or at least apple carplay; 3) running led light like Kawasaki jet-ski
@@aqualectric-gi2ln thank you for the honest and clear answer! there it is, 20 miles is not yet enough for such an offshore capable boat. i ll wait for a few more years when the battery technology really has break trough.
