Pure Watercraft electric outboards acquires ELUX Marine
Pure Watercraft, the Seattle-based innovator of electric outboards and e-boat technology, has acquired ELUX Marine, the Minnesota-based electric boat manufacturer.
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Motors + Engines
New crowdfunding for DeepSpeed electric hydrojet motor
Update on electric hydrojet motor crowdfunding. The fund has closed with 435 participants investing €2.918.700 – almost 10 time (971%)
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Electric boat company IPO raises over $27 million
Vision Marine Technologies, formerly the Canadian Electric Boat Company, today announced the closing of its Initial Public Offering (IPO) of 2,760,000 common shares at a price of US$10.00 per share, which includes 360,000 shares sold upon full exercise of the underwriter’s option to purchase additional common shares.
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Fischer Panda to power Mayflower electric autonomous ship
New double motor gives electric autonomous ship redundancy and flexibility for 5,000 km transatlantic trip marking original Mayflower’s 400th anniversary.
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Torqeedo new products announced for 2021
Powerful new saildrives, TorqLink interface, Travel 603 motor lead Torqeedo new products launch as company comes off record 2020 sales
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Revolutionary high torque electric motor gets $74M support
High torque electric motor manufacturer Linear Labs has added $6M in new investment to a recent $68.9 million partnership and
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New French electric rim motor now taking pre-orders
The electric rim motor that Rémi Champeaux of Hy-Generation in Breton, France, has been developing since 2016 is now ready
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ePropulsion electric outboard, EFOY methanol fuel cell hook up
Electric boat motor manufacturer ePropulsion and methanol fuel cell company EFOY announced at Germany’s Interboot boat show that they are
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Historic Zebu world’s 1st tall ship with electric motor
The world’s 1st tall ship with electric motor is ‘Zebu ‘, a wooden brigantine of Baltic Trader design that was
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Electric boat motor crowdfunding hits €650k in first 4 days
Update Oct. 8: Oceanvolt crowdfunding closed with investments of € 2 250 360 Congratulations – the future of electric boating
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Electrons #1 – sparks and arcs from here and there
Welcome to ELECTRONS #1, the first Plugboats collection of bits of electric boat news items that are interesting and exciting,
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World’s most powerful electric outboard sets challenge
The maker of the world’s most powerful electric outboard – Evoy – is partnering with the world’s 1st all electric
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Stealth’s new complete electric outboard package costs less than $10,000
A complete electric outboard system including 18kW motor, controller, batteries, charger, cables, remote control and state-of-charge meter is being offered
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High power electric boat motors launched by F1 pioneer
Electric boat motors arising from work on the high speed flywheels of Formula 1 car racing are being launched by
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Yamaha starts trials on twin electric boat motor unit
The twin electric boat motor unit is integrated with a steering control system – HARMO – and trials begin August
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Pure Watercraft adds 3 new electric boat packages
Three new electric boat packages from innovative Seattle electric outboard manufacturer Pure Watercraft expand the company’s range to five motor
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ePropulsion brings new Spirit, 48V batteries to US
ePropulsion has launched its next model Spirit 1.0 electric boat motor – the Spirit 1.0 Plus – in the US
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Jet boat pioneer unveils electric-hybrid waterjet
A new electric-hybrid waterjet propulsion system is being released by New Zealand’s HamiltonJet – who invented the jet boat as
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Torqeedo founder devoting time to new role
It is fair to say that the electric boat industry would not be where it is today without the efforts
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New 48 volt electric boat motor now in production
A new 48 volt electric boat motor with peak power of 80kW (96 hp) and nominal power of 50kW (65hp)
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