To be fair: the Emission free battery electric part is actually worse than burning diesel, unless taken from a grid or used in low power operations. If you use it to circumvent fuel Emission standards it’s good. If you use it with regular fuel while entering a harbor it’s good for the local environment while being bad for the global. (Overall probably good, in that case)
Since a yacht would have a lot of idling while chilling at sea it’s probably a net good.
Well I’m sure that they can charge it when docked. Would be idiotic if they didn’t factor that in, given how much time yachts spend docked.
And marine diesel engines also usually run at a fairly steady speed, they don’t really get revved up. The big ones anyway, I mean. In diesel-electric systems you can run the diesel engine at its most efficient speed to power the electrical system which is what actually moves the ship.
So I think it’s a net good… compared to a straight diesel yacht. But obviously the better option would be no yacht.
To be fair: the Emission free battery electric part is actually worse than burning diesel, unless taken from a grid or used in low power operations. If you use it to circumvent fuel Emission standards it’s good. If you use it with regular fuel while entering a harbor it’s good for the local environment while being bad for the global. (Overall probably good, in that case)
Since a yacht would have a lot of idling while chilling at sea it’s probably a net good.
Well I’m sure that they can charge it when docked. Would be idiotic if they didn’t factor that in, given how much time yachts spend docked.
And marine diesel engines also usually run at a fairly steady speed, they don’t really get revved up. The big ones anyway, I mean. In diesel-electric systems you can run the diesel engine at its most efficient speed to power the electrical system which is what actually moves the ship.
So I think it’s a net good… compared to a straight diesel yacht. But obviously the better option would be no yacht.