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First crewless, zero emissions cargo ship will set sail in Norway
- tsjq 5y agoHasn't Tesla done this already?
- anaganisk 5y agoI don’t remember Tesla ever attempting it, care to provide a link?
- schroeding 5y agoWow, so cool! Basically a giant 80 meter long RC ship with an autopilot! :-) It also has a way smaller battery capacity than I would have expected to be necessary for a (small) cargo ship, even for the short range of 64 nautical miles (~120km). Ships are pretty efficient, apparently. :-D
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoIn the images is looks like the main deck is 4 x 11 containers, I guess any kind of 'canopy' of solar panels above them would need to be easy to remove when it came time to load or unload, but that's a pretty large amount of area (depending on the weather it was sailing in - though I suppose like being becalmed, if your robot ship needed sunshine to sail, it'd just have to wait until the clouds parted...)
- brundolf 5y agoAssuming it's more than a publicity stunt, this is the kind of thing we really need to combat climate change. Cargo ships are enormous polluters (and not even just of greenhouse gases)