Electric boat | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-02

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00:01:08 1 History
00:01:17 1.1 Early
00:01:55 1.2 Golden Age
00:06:32 1.3 Decline
00:09:07 1.4 Renaissance
00:09:44 2 Components
00:10:53 2.1 Charger
00:14:58 2.2 Battery bank
00:18:34 2.3 Speed controller
00:19:27 2.4 Electric motor
00:20:27 2.5 Drive train
00:21:24 3 Types
00:29:16 3.1 Wired electric boats
00:31:47 4 Pollution and embodied energy
00:37:08 5 Solar ships
00:39:01 6 List of battery-electric ships
00:39:12 7 See also



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While a significant majority of water vessels are powered by diesel engines, with sail power and gasoline engines also popular, boats powered by electricity have been used for over 120 years.  Electric boats were very popular from the 1880s until the 1920s, when the internal combustion engine took dominance. Since the energy crises of the 1970s, interest in this quiet and potentially renewable marine energy source has been increasing steadily again, especially as solar cells became available, for the first time making possible motorboats with an infinite range like sailboats. The first practical solar boat was probably constructed in 1975 in England. The first electric sailboat which made a round-the-world tour, including the through the Panama Canal, with only green technologies is EcoSailingProject.