Price Seen as Major Drawback in Electrifying Commercial Fishing Boats (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] July 31, 2015
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Electro-powered boats – a builder’s view after this --
Fish Radio reported yesterday on the nation’s first all electric passenger boat, the Tongass Rain - a 50 foot eco-tour boat set to be on the water in Juneau next year. Once its propulsion system is signed off by the Coast Guard, building will get underway.
"We are really excited about it. We’re some of the front runners here with this project and we really think it is the future. The eco-tourism industry is, in my opinion, the best one to start out with."
Trevor O’ Brien manages the production engineering team at Armstrong Marine in Port Angeles, Washington. He says adapting all electric for fishing boats would be much trickier -
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