"Vision Marine Technologies Testing Electric-Powered 32-Foot Cat With 100-Plus-MPH Goal In Mind

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  1. Jimboat
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    With modern Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide (NMC) battery banks the 16kWH you need for a speed run is only ~106 kg, so about the size of a 30 gal fuel tank....but only 3 minutes of power.
     
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    One motor controller design I worked on drew only 2 KW, but still needed a dry ice cooling system in the lab. What kind of cooling system has been designed in to prevent motor winding insulation from melting and shorting?
     
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    Not sure from the article, but must be the same cooling system that cools the dual 160 kW OBs.
     
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    The tradeoff on run time is exceptionally disappointing.

    But, perhaps these efforts are how the envelope needs to be pushed.
     

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    How much horsepower is needed for 100 mph from a conventional outboard? As for cooling why not mount the entire thing underwater and get it water cooled for free? Of course there is the electronics.
     
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