First cars and bikes now7 Mar 2021 19:17
Norway Now Has the World’s Longest Electric Ferry, the Bastø Electric
SUZANNE HUMPHRIES @yeah_books
MARCH 6, 2021, 11:23AM EDT
Norway's Basto Electric ferry
Sefine Shipyard
Electric vehicles don’t have to be limited to the roads. In fact, the world’s longest electric ferry—dubbed the MF Bastø Electric—just debuted in Norway, and will serve the country’s busiest ferry connection. The ship isn’t Norway’s first electric ferry, however, but it is now its longest, measuring 456.7 feet (or 139.2 meters).
Despite Bastø Electric joining Norway’s fleet, the ship was actually built in Turkey by the Sefine Shipyard. The fully electric ferry is able to carry 200 cars or 24 trucks, and 600 passengers simultaneously. It measures 68.9 feet (21 meters) wide and can move at speeds up to 15mph (24km per hour or 13 knots)....where will it end? Electric plains??? Oh wait isn't RR already working on that?