Testing out the lineup of all-electric Avator outboard motors from Mercury Marine

Music by Bensound
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[lawngnomes]

This looks like the perfect application for pontoon boats, since it's quiet, usually low speed/short distance, and they'll have more room for some batteries

[flyplayer]

Neat! (Never looks into this again after seeing battery cost)

[roelstausebach]

Pity bout the stupid background “music” would have preferred to hear how quiet that motor runs myself rather than constantly being told how quiet it is 😣

[DanFrederiksen]

they still use the 90 degree gear coupling like ICE versions. I wonder if it would be more efficient and simple to have the electric motor in line with the prop under water

[anthonyc]

Even for a small runabout, it’d need the equivalent of 9.9hp and 2+ hours of run time (15kWh) to be taken seriously. That’d be expensive with a big battery on a small craft. Gotta get better energy density!

[diegobacchelli]

why put music as a background if we supposed to hear just how quiet the motor is ?

[nohandsdan]

They need to get into building kayak trolling motors with spot lock and all the other good stuff too 😎

[roadboat]

110. Is 110 HP or 10 :HP. You said “ not bad for a 10 HP. @ 8 mph!?