O.o
Just curious... How would you not be in shark infeated waters with a normal boat sinking? Do such boats magically save you from being in the water once the gas hits the ocean?
There would be multiple reasons to stay on or near a sinking boat. When a boat sinks there is often debris left in that spot which could act as a makeshift raft and provide some protection from nearby sharks. It is much smarter to stay near where the boat is sinking than to swim out to the sharks. It is also possible that the boat will topple over as it sinks and create an air pocket that prevents it from fully sinking, providing a surface you can climb up on.
And Trump's story is, once again, BS.
https://www.southernfriedscience.com/for-immediate-release-experts-respond-to-concerns-over-the-relative-risks-of-electric-boats-and-shark-encounters/
Like. Why would a boat sink because of a battery? Yes its heavier but unless you just slap an EV battery into a small boat, its not gonna matter much. Boats displace water based on their weight. So if you have a boat that can't handle an EV battery without sinking... You probably shouldn't be using the boat anyway.
Trump weighs 215lbs.
I grabbed the Breeze 20 for battery size. 15kwh. Weight is around 450lbs. (I couldn't find exact weight)
If your boat is gonna sink because an additional 2 donald trump's get on it... You need a bigger boat.
A 450lb EV battery isn't going to allow you to do much at sea. Practical battery-electric boats and ships essentially don't exist because of the battery size requirements. See this Quora thread "Why is it so hard to make a fully electric boat?" -
https://qr.ae/pslleC"My Nissan Leaf has a 500 lb battery, and only provides the equivalent of about 2 gallons of gasoline, and that ignores the inherent efficiency of an electric motor compared to an reciprocating ICE.
For a boat to take a heavy load 30 to 1000+ miles, the boat might be too heavy to float. That includes cargo and container ships, cruise ships, longer ferry trips, etc."
https://qr.ae/pslq8i"Batteries don’t work for anything more than a dinghy. Electric on the other hand does work - the below is the SX190 fuel cell design from Ulstein"
https://qr.ae/pslqNx"Long range vessels must be hybrid, This is not a 3,200 lb/1450kg Prius…..no battery pack in the world can move tens of thousands of tons of ship, cargo, generate electrical power, cooking for aboard, heating and air-conditioning, navigational electronics including radar, steering multi-ton rudders, cranes and pumps for cargo, massive anchor winches and capstans for dock-lines, fire-fighting systems, etc. for long distances and may not for many generations to come. This means that it must support both diesel and electrical systems with the electrical losses inherent in changing one kind of power to another to drive propellers.
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The poster who showed a photo of the Sweden to Copenhagen ferry (there are two) didn’t show you
the size of the battery packs each the size of a tractor trailer (4 on top of the top deck: too big to store below and so high and heavy that it affects the ship’s stability by a percentage.) It is charged after every trip and the entire trip is only
2.2 nautical miles. This is not a long-range solution.
It was also NOT paid for by the ferry company but by government funding and a large amount by the electrical systems developers as a prototype to see if it could be used on other ships. On the plus side: It has been in daily service for 4-years BUT cost $31.9 million dollars ($36.4MM in 2022 money) to install on a ship that already had electric drive engines. That’s about the cost to build an entire new diesel ferry of the same size and capacity."