Beautiful day! And a lot more comfortable than my 40 year old noisy, stinky, sputtering and leaking two stroke 4 hp Johnson. But unfortunately also ‘a bit’ more expensive. My solution at the moment is sailing when possible…
Dylan,
Interesting. I thought it would be much quieter, indeed I thought it would be near silent, but seeemingly not?
These electric outboard motors are very appealing until one comes to replacing the 62% that youve’ just consumed; we are anchored in the Kyles of Bute so no shorepower! And I wouldnt want to run the genny for hours to recharge it. So I’m stuck with the 2-stroke for now at least.
I’m curious if over the long term the battery-pack continues to hold a full-charge, or begins to deteriorate. Many of these high-density batteries begin to develop “battery memory”that reduces the amount of charge they deliver and the linearity of the discharge over time. I have a laptop tablet that when I got it at Christmas was good for 5-6 hours of web-browsing. Now just in the last few weeks, after 9-months it barely lasts 2-3 hours before shutting-down, and more alarmingly goes from 50%-charge to 5% in about 20-minutes. At 20% it claims it’s still good for 90-mins of usage, but the power drops to 5% auto shutdown in 5-mins. And of course that battery is non-replaceable so now I have to plan on buying another tablet and transferring my data. I guess I’ll have to relegate it to desk-top duty with it near-permanently plugged-in.
Hopefully the Torqueedo battery pack’s long-term discharge-profile remains linear and stable. At-least the battery-pack is separate and presumably can be replaced with a (expensive) new one. By that point, probably buying the next-generation of elec-outboard will be cheaper, faster with more capacity. …Like buying a computer in the 1990s.