I'd be surprised if you got anywhere near 2 hours of 'barely' planing, even with the 3 battery (~20KWh) config on that light boat. Particularly with any load (ie, several passengers). And that would be draining the batteries dry, which obviously would not be good for longevity.
Why doesn't the world just slow down? I wish the industry would concentrate on ultra-efficient semi-displacement long range runabout hulls and electric motors/batteries, which would give us the ability to run all day, at say 10 knots, for less than $50k all up. But I guess that's too slow for today's boater...
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Tom" wrote:
> It looks like Deep Blue is only intended for use with Torqeedo's Li-Mn batteries, so better add $49K for the mid-size battery bank, which allows about 2 hrs runtime at barely-planing speed on the 1100lb boat used in their catalog.
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> I wish them success, but that sure seems like a pretty limited market... Maybe there are enough folks who need to run (briefly) at planing speeds on non-ICE waterways, but I'll bet most of them are in Europe, not the US.
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> -Tom
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