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China Starts Sea Trials for Largest Electric-Powered Containership (maritime-executive.com)
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This was over a month ago, but I still think it's fitting as an electric vehicle. Reminder that it's possible to power cargo ships using batteries and electric motors.

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 38 minutes ago

How competitive is rhe range?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

That's insane. Those batteries must the size of an apartment building.

[–] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 4 points 41 minutes ago

total capacity is 19,000kWh, an EV battery is ~100kWh, so maybe round to around 200 car battery-sized batteries. Maybe not an apartment building, but they'd probably make a two bedroom feel cramped.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 2 points 21 minutes ago

The article says the batteries are in 10 shipping containers, so one charging option is to simply swap uncharged for charged, like a ginormous flashlight.