Electric Container Ships Are Stuck on the Horizon

  • The Yara Birkeland in Norway, is the world’s first electric-powered, zero-emissions container ship and the first autonomous commercial vessel
  • It will carry just 120 TEU at 6 knots service speed with longest intended operation of 30 nautical miles—between Herøya and Larvik
  • Today’s state-of-the-art diesel container vessels carry 150 times as many boxes over distances 400 times as long at speeds 3-4 times as fast..
  • A battery with energy density more than 10 times as high as today’s best Li-ion...

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