Tested | Mercury Avator Range - Theoretical v Practical 

I think its a great idea and when the price comes down id love to buy one. No more bad gas, gummed carburetor, pulling the rope tull my arm hurts. Sounds great.

I could imagine these being great for tenders for larger boats, clean, odourless and no worry of bad gas, charge with a solar panel between ports, but this tech will have to come a long way before replacing your typical outboard. Great video.

I know it is expected, but what was striking to me was the quiet!

But I will miss the memories associated with the toxic aroma of outboard exhaust

At some point electric outboards will be great. Good trolling, quiet, spare batteries, should develop solar charging.. good future I believe.

I’m afraid that type of technology will need to evolve along way for it to be useful for recreational fisherman. Especially where I am in the NT. Great test though, thanks Steve 👍

So much negativity around the electric platform (shocker). It’s Tesla hate 2.0. Here’s an idea that hopefully gives some perspective.. 4 lakes near my house all have “electric motor only” regs. So guess who has been begging for more electric options 🤚Don’t want one? Don’t buy one.. Seems simple.

I think electric outboards are great but better suited to certain applications of course. I fish on lochs in Scotland and have used petrol and electric. Electric are vastly inproving. They are quiet, almost zero maintenance needed (remember when you think of the cost that for safety your petrol outboard has to be seviced every year), you can fit a big lithium battery which are light, there is no smell and pollution to the lake etc etc. I do get they are not going to be much use at sea or on extremely large lakes but thays beside the poont and the sea is a bit more able to absorb to put up with pollution issues that a lake could much more likely to suffer from.

Nice clear test, well done 👍. Would love to know what the app is that you used to make the track you were showing on screen. Very cool.

Did I miss it or did he forget to say what size what weight and what hull configuration he was using

I don't know what Mercury or any of these companies are thinking. They promote it likes it's a great clean alternative. But in this test, it ran a whole hour. An hour. Cost is ridiculous and of course if you want more range, more cost for additional batteries. Just like the cars, whose bubble has burst as people see through the lies, this will never be anything more than a niche that will never compete with gas outboards.

You’re supposed to use knots not kilometers. I’d settle for MPH but that’s because I’m in the United States and this is American website that you’re posting is too

Wow, it made it a whole 4miles

Where is the battery

terrible i used an E outboard for 7 days with 2 leisure batteries a hole week loool this is miles away

Pretty neat. How kuch are the batteries?

Avator 7.5 wud be so cool on the polycraft tender chasing big lizards on the flats. gud news that the Avator has spare bats u can get. Steve wats the next size up from the 7.5.

Garbage. I used my Torqeedo Travel 1103 for 12km between 5kph and 9kph and had 67% left when came back

my zodiac will plane with an ice 7.5hp Will your boat plane with that 7.5e ?

Why didn’t you try and plane , a 6 mercury two stroke would Plain on that tiny ,electrics are a long way of yet unfortunately

Oof 1 hr on water just isn’t safe… not even close to being enough