Replacing Gas engine with electric motor

[Scott Danforth]

The end game of EV isn't to save money. It's to cut carbon emissions.

then we need a different energy storage scheme, as the carbon footprint for battery manufacture puts the EV's in a huge hole.

take the battery packs for a Prius:
ore mined in Canada, shipped to China for processing, shipped to Japan to be made into batteries, etc. is a bigger carbon foot print than a gas-guzzlin SUV

you can drive a 2008 suburban with a 8.1 liter for 300,000 miles and have a smaller carbon foot print than the prius does until the prius is over 300,000 miles

Not to mention, there currently is not a viable Lithium battery recycling program

 

[Scott Danforth]

I would like an electric outboard for the dinghy/tender. I currently run a Mercury 7.5 HP and it would probably be a good fit for a small electric outboard.

I also wish there was some decent electric engine conversions for some of my outdoor power equipment (OPE), but I have yet to see them.

As for twin engines in a boat, be they 200 HP or more, I think that will take some time for power storage technology to catch-up.

Ted, you could always run a 65# trolling motor and two batteries.

 

[jmok1978]

then we need a different energy storage scheme, as the carbon footprint for battery manufacture puts the EV's in a huge hole.

take the battery packs for a Prius:
ore mined in Canada, shipped to China for processing, shipped to Japan to be made into batteries, etc. is a bigger carbon foot print than a gas-guzzlin SUV

you can drive a 2008 suburban with a 8.1 liter for 300,000 miles and have a smaller carbon foot print than the prius does until the prius is over 300,000 miles

Not to mention, there currently is not a viable Lithium battery recycling program

You haven't even touched the fact that EV battery material requires the displacement of people in africa/asia, that the open pit mines cause all sorts of cancers to the locals, the chemicals used to process that leach into the local water supplies. Then after all the back and forth half way across the globe that you mentioned to build the batteries the average person will ultimately charge their EV with electricity powered by....fossil fuels. Slight of hand.