www.thetimes.co.uk/.../cross-channel-ferries-will-go-electric-say-operators-p862kvm8d
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Sounds a good idea. Diesel fuel is dirty and increasingly expensive. Major channel ports have well developed electrical infrastructure to meet the charging demand. In the interests of reliability I would hope that charging will be available at BOTH ends of the route, but that the ships be designed so as to make a RETURN voyage on one charge. For when charging facilities at one end are on strike or otherwise not available.
Battery power should also encourage more prudent of use of electricity on ferries, it is often used very wastefully at present.
I wonder what the charging demand will be ? 10 MW or thereabouts perhaps.
OK Broadgage, so about 300 Tesla batteries then, about 3 million pounds. Have you read the plugging in regulations in BS7671, and a supply at perhaps 33kV? Interesting, that's never been attempted before. I wonder what the chance is that they will have a battery fire in the first month, and the life expected at 8 charge/discharge cycles per day? Perhaps they will get 6 months or perhaps a year. I think the ferry prices are about to increase substantially!
OK Broadgage, so about 300 Tesla batteries then, about 3 million pounds. Have you read the plugging in regulations in BS7671, and a supply at perhaps 33kV? Interesting, that's never been attempted before. I wonder what the chance is that they will have a battery fire in the first month, and the life expected at 8 charge/discharge cycles per day? Perhaps they will get 6 months or perhaps a year. I think the ferry prices are about to increase substantially!
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