It's a great looking piece of kit but it's not a great leap forward in technology. It comes up against the battery limitatios that all e-boaters face, the brochure quotes run time at full speed as 16 minutes. It looks well engineered though.
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "jason_fuchs" <jason@...> wrote:
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> Well, a couple years ago I joined this forum looking for thoughts on an all-electric wakeboard boat. Most of the experts here said: "no, can't be done." They had all sorts of math to prove it. They sent me away telling me to stop dreaming.
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> It's here.
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> http://waterskimag.com/features/2010/01/26/first-look-epic-21se-all-electric-boat/
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> Cost is probably exhorbitant at this point, but that will change as the auto-industry kicks in and the technology gets commoditized.
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> Here's to all the dreamers that make this world a better place.
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> Cheers!
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