Electric Ski Boat

How about this?


Tesla Roadster

"You're right! I just thought about it for 30 seconds and you're right; silent boats are stupid!"

64X - Here is a Baby Boomer Solution for our latest technological hurdle.

The tree huggers will be proud of us.

Vrroom Vrroom

You guys have this sound thing all wrong.....
Quinner has the speakers and the amps that will supply at least 1000 watts, more than enough DB's for that sound we all crave.
Now what we need is a digital recording of a AA/FC at full tilt for the take off fading into a top end run for the cruise mode.
This would keep Barney at bay while we play at the other end of the lake.
Loud and proud = GREEN

You missed the point.......

You can go slow but sound fast....


2 group 27 deep cycle batts would give you 4hrs of top fuel sound and would peter out at about the same time the " fuel guage " shows empty for the boat batts...........

if you really sit and think about it, all of the up front money from the gasoline companies was spent along time ago, all the refineries are paid for so whatever they pump out at 100 bucks a barrel is close to heavy profits, they fore-see the coming age of electric cars, hydrogen cars, as the same for boats, i would say they see the end is near, with the way technology progresses within 20 years will be saying remember the sound of my 2000 correct craft, sorry for anaylizing but i keep seeing these advertisemants on these cars, and at one time i would of never of thought we would be hanging thin TV's on the wall or driving around with a phone

Okay, so you back your "ELECTRIC" truck and your "ELECTRIC" boat into the "WATER" ...

... Wait a minute!

Is this even safe?



Just kidding. The little truck looks interesting.

That sounds right. I noticed one of those pretty electric wood boats was $100,000.

So I guess that's $25,000 dollars worth of boat, and $75,000 worth of battery!

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Very impressive!
Any details available on the engine, batteries, range, costs?

Don't know what April means by "no powerboats allowed in Europe".
There are emission restrictions for a few lakes in Switzerland and South Germany, but thats about it.
The number of places where you are allowed to go faster than 14 mph are limited, but this is a speed issue.
   

horkn wrote: I like the idea of an electric driven ski boat. Now make one that has a gas generator that will charge the batteries for longer trips.

And what would the engine generator do? Think about it - you'd be better off just with the gas engine. Power generation is far from being 100% efficient (probably around only 60%) and nether is a electric motor (around 90%). Why do they need to have cooling - because the waste energy is heat! You'd be burning more gas!!

All electric - not very green ether when you consider the power generation needed. Your off coal fired out of Green Bay.

yes I did!! pretty impressive...

8122pbrainard wrote: horkn wrote: I like the idea of an electric driven ski boat. Now make one that has a gas generator that will charge the batteries for longer trips.    And what would the engine generator do? Think about it - you'd be better off just with the gas engine. Power generation is far from being 100% efficient (probably around only 60%) and nether is a electric motor (around 90%). Why do they need to have cooling - because the waste energy is heat! You'd be burning more gas!! All electric - not very green ether when you consider the power generation needed. Your off coal fired out of Green Bay.

actually that is refere to as a hybrid, and you don't want to use a gas ICE as your APU for a hybrid system. Typically you can get better efficiency using a small diesel as the APU for this application. In theroy you don't need batteries at all but most have them anyway, the thought is you can go pure electric for so many miles before the APU kicks in and feeds the drive motors electricity.

John, you know better, it would be nice with electric. like last night at 1:00 sneaking into the drive lol

The hybrid boat already exists. Epic makes them in California, it has a diesel motor powering a generator to charge the bateries which run th motor. Supposed to run for about an hour on electricity before the motor kicks in, so all you short session people might never hear the motor run.

I've folowed these boats over on Wakeworld since they were a drawing on a napkin. The guy who started the company also works for someone who is designing electric cars, so the hybrid boat was right up his alley once he got done with the gas powered one. I used one of their boats to pull our hydrofoil sideshow at the dragboat races last year. It was very interesting, 23 ft, has a mercruser big block and weighs 3000 lbs dry. It will also hold 4000 lbs of ballast and has dual rudders. We ran it unloaded for acceration purposes and with the mercury electronics you set the pick up and your speed and when your ready you throw the lever. The post pulls the skier up the exact same every time and then rockets up to the exact speed, it did slow down in the sharp turns where everyone had to hold on, but as soon as I strightened it out we were back to speed almost instantly. I really liked it, it was very stripped down by modern standards, but had everything you needed to get the job done.

The bad part a out the hybrid boat is that it is rumored to be $150000. I have heard that they have actually sold a few in Europe where the taxes are so high on the regular wakeboats that it starts to make since. I also saw that they will be using some of those Boesch wooden boats to bull some of the events in the Barefoot Worlds this summer in Germany, I'm guessing it won't be the electric one.

http://23e.epicboats.com/

I can see a electric or a hybrid in places where you are regulated and have to use one but if not, they simply are NOT "green". Anyone who thinks this has been scammed!! There's no regenerative braking which is the key to energy savings in cars/trucks/train locos. Then there's the "cradle to grave" natural resources needed to build one of them!!!