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Commercial fishing vessels are already festooned with electric motors, batteries and electronics. Somehow all that functions in saltwater.
by topspin 3y ago
Commercial fishing vessels are already festooned with electric motors, batteries and electronics. Somehow all that functions in saltwater.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoBut for power, an enormous battery is required. Even in a little Tesla, disastrous fires are not unknown. Imagine one at sea.
- topspin 3y ago> Imagine one at sea. One need not imagine such things. It took a week for the Freemantle Highway car carrier to stop burning, something 90% of HN denizens are blissfully unaware of due to narrative blindness, and only about 15% of its cargo was electric. While a burning electric fishing vessel won't do well, understand that these operations are already fraught with risk and regularly experience minor disasters. The small operations are borderline piratic and the big operations are highly lucrative. It is unlikely that they will forgo whatever benefits they imagine due to some unquantified fire risk.
- AYBABTME 3y agoTeslas in NA use NMC chemistry (or a variant) which is much more dangerous than the LFP chemistry commonly used on boats. LFP cells are much harder to set on fire, and they don't burn anywhere as violently as more volatile chemistries.
- tooltalk 3y agonitpick: Tesla uses Panasonic's NCA in North America and LG's NCM for Long Range in China/EU.