Electric Motor Sailing — Why Use Diesel When Electric Works?
Why use a diesel or a gas motor to propel a sailboat when an electric motor can do the job more efficiently, more cost effectively, and without polluting our environment?
It’s not because an electric motor cannot generate the power necessary to recharge the house batteries the way a diesel motor with a generator can…
It’s not that inboard electric motors are not available, because for decades there have been many inboard electric motors produced that can propel a sailboat very effectively and can also serve as generators while sailing.
Nevertheless, the adoption of the electric motor breakthrough has been spotty at best. Why? because it doesn’t fit the existing sailing paradigm! Darko Kapelina believes the time for electric motor sailing is here and he is interested in all ideas and systems relating to clean regenerative sailing.
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