The world's largest fully electric container ship made its maiden trip this week. Everything will be electric except rockets but large container ships will.

Back in April yeah

Guys it's largely performative still - it supplements standard diesel drive with some electric drive, but sacrifices cargo and range to do so - so actual reduction in emissions for a given quantity of cargo transported X miles(useful journey), is pretty negligible.

Amazing, but i reckon there's a place for hydrogen powered ships too ...

That's not a large container ship, that would be the 400 meter class. Calculated the batteries needed to electrify one of those, basically the complete payload. Not straight forward. Either save energy (half the speed->1/10th consumption!) or recharge during trip.

Unlucky painting, though.

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Love this 😎

Amazing!

Large container ships going electric, that's a huge step forward for sustainable transportation. Just wondering, what's the estimated reduction in greenhouse gas emissions?

Exciting to see this happen! Electric ships are a crucial step towards cleaner shipping.