Voyager Boatyard won a bid from Innovate UK to design and build an e-ferry, receiving UK Gov't funding for a fully electric, 12-passenger vessel under 24m in length, operating 14 hours a day on a single charge.

Voyager Marine and Plymouth Boat Trips will be working with Solis Marine Engineering, a team of expert naval architects, to create a clean, hydrodynamically efficient hull form that maximizes the use of the stored energy available.

 

 

For additional details, please visit the link below:

https://www.electrichybridmarinetechnology.com/news/ferries-and-cruises/uk-boatyard-gains-funding-for-e-ferry.html 

Posted on - 2021-03-01

Fossil fuel cars waste hundreds of times more raw material than their battery electric equivalents, according to a study by Transport & Environment (T&E) seen by the Guardian. A calculation of the resources used to make cars relative to their weight shows it is at least 300 times greater for oil-fuelled cars.

Approximately 30kg of metal will be lost over the lifecycle of a lithium ion battery used in electric cars once recycling is taken into account, compared with 17,000 litres of oil.

Higher battery production will require more mining of minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel, but use 58% less energy than a petrol car over its lifetime and emit 64% less carbon dioxide.

 

For additional details, please visit the link below:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/01/fossil-fuel-cars-make-hundreds-of-times-more-waste-than-electric-cars 

Posted on - 2021-03-01

Lenka Petráková’s design concept for a floating ocean research and remediation station, called 8th Continent, has just won her the 2020 Grand Prix Award - a French architecture prize recognizing outstanding contribution to the industry - the nation's highest award for architecture.

8th Continent is designed with three glass forms emerging from an elegant spiral base, with the intention of skimming waste off the surface of the water and recycling plastics while deployed at sea. Petráková also planned the building to support ocean research projects and a range of secondary uses that will help clean our oceans and advance environmental research.

 

For additional details on the project and detailed concept art, please visit the link below:

https://mymodernmet.com/8th-continent-lenka-petrakova-grand-prix/ 

Posted on - 2021-02-25