Recent content by nestawayboats

As per previous posts, if you're replacing batteries anyway because they're dead or dying it's quite easy. LifePO4 - for the same usable capacity - is already the same price as half decent lead acid batteries. At less than half the weight and volume. Let's put some real numbers in there. Using...

eLite motor is a fully sealed design, custom designed and made by ePropulsion themselves. They are very well aware of the potential problems with outrunner motors for this application... ie likely use in salt water and customers won't rinse out every use (either because they dont read...

:) "no danger of neck injury"! No... but 350W is still quite a lot more than a pair of human arms (rowing), especially when you're talking about sustaining it for over an hour, and a direct-drive electric motor turning a propeller is quite an efficient way of transferring it into forward...

Absolutely. You have to want the benefits of electric propulsion - silence, smoothness, pushbutton operation, lack of fumes, etc - and accept its downsides (range, even if not limited by finances, will be restricted by weight and volume of batteries), to justify the expenditure. Many thousands...

"Two unreliable engines"? Electric outboard users generally report much better reliability than petrol outboard users, plus general ease of use inc push button starting etc. With electric motors there is no starter cord to pull, no choke to fiddle with, no warm-up period when it might stall, no...

As Marceline says, no, it's really only useful from 6 knots plus. And you have to bear in mind that it creates drag (you can't get something for nothing!), and the amount of drag is the same regardless of boat size, so that drag has proportionately more effect on smaller boats (which are less...

At 2 tons, and for the purposes you describe, a 3kW motor would be enough... but as the price difference is not that significant, in the context of total system cost, then a lot of people buy the 6kW. You can use either of the dominant makes - ePropulsion and Torqeedo - with other-make batteries...

The ePropulsion eLite is supplied with a 110W (output) mains (110-240V) charger as standard. The official website says 3hrs to charge from flat but that must include some "slightly optimistic rounding down" as the battery capacity is 378Wh. And as always the first and last few percent take a bit...

I should make clear, I haven't had the chance to try a new Travel XP on the water yet. But I did spend quite a lot of time familiarising myself with how it works on various trade stands over the last few months. Apparently UK stock is now on its way, should be available mid May. Anyway this new...

Just to be clear, amongst other things, we (Nestaway Boats) sell ePropulsion, Torqeedo, TEMO and ThrustMe electric outboards. Anyway sorry I'm late to the party on this. As a couple of previous posts mention, we have actually used an ePropulsion eLite ourselves. We were also somewhat involved...

Before anyone moans, and just to be clear, yes we are a UK dealer for Epropulsion and Torqeedo electric outboard motors. But we have an interest in the wider market and often when asked offer advice on products that we know about even if we don't sell them. So I thought an update might be of...

You could definitely replace some ballast with batteries if designed in from the start, but unlikely to be as low as you'd like. A slightly fatter than usual central part of saloon table could hold quite a lot of battery capacity, and still keep them out of bilges, with the weight relatively low...

I don't agree about diesel electric not being viable below 45' in monohulls. If we started again - with diesel electric as opposed to all battery in mind - then on the Sadler 29 we could fit a 4kW DC diesel-powered generator and at least one 9kWh battery where the Bukh diesel engine used to be...

I did say electric wouldn't suit everybody. But that if it does, it has advantages which nobody ever seems to weigh up against "range". A range which is already enough for a lot of people, most of the time. Almost no noise or vibration, zero exhaust fumes, zero oil or fuel smells/leaks inside...

Nobody has mentioned electric option, so I will... But in the interests of clarity, I should also point out it's something we sell. I'd also further point out that I've actually done it to my own yacht, and have two seasons actual experience using it - this is not conjecture. It won't suit...