Development for production electric outboard motors for commercial maritime operations

这个工业研究项目将提供一种纯电动舷外发动机，用于商业运营，包括港口巡逻、领航船、沿海渡轮和货运、风力发电场支持和海上支持船。迫切需要使这个快速增长的工作船部门脱碳。到2030年实现清洁能源目标（净零战略，第六次碳预算）需要彻底改变占全球温室气体排放量2.2%的海运业。Ecomar的产品旨在减少过渡摩擦，提高运营商的商业价值，产品易于与现有发动机“切换”，并通过使用智能电子设备和组件设计延长运行周期。市场机会巨大，主要市场（欧盟、亚洲、美国）正处于快速转移的轨道上。美国《降低通胀法案》（Inflation Reduction Act）将向清洁能源转型技术投资3800亿美元。该项目建立在Ecomar五年来创新设计的基础上，结合了多项专利创新，包括轴向磁通电机、皮带传动、定制船舶控制电子设备、定制倾斜/修剪机构和热回收。这笔资金及其将释放的股权匹配将使项目完成后的关键开发成为市场就绪产品，准备在英国、美国和欧洲市场迅速商业化。该项目旨在确定关键的业务领域，并通过整合研究成果来加强未来的大批量生产方法。该项目采用现有的原型设计，旨在快速实现商业海事部门的脱碳，并通过解决关键的运营需求来加速其采用。如果这种转变对运营的影响最小，并且允许现有机构保持运营概况和效率，那么从碳氢化合物推进向电力推进的转变将更容易被接受。在实践中，这意味着新的推进系统需要直观地使用，至少要像内燃机发动机一样具有成本效益和可靠性。这是一个很难解决的问题，该项目旨在将重点放在区分电动发动机和化石燃料发动机的确定方面，并将其纳入一系列舷外发动机的最终阶段设计和生产计划中。

This industrial research project will deliver a pure-electric outboard motor for use in commercial operations, including harbour patrols, pilot boats, coastal ferries and freight, wind farm support and offshore support vessels.There is an urgent need to decarbonise this rapidly growing workboat sector. Achieving clean energy targets by 2030 (Net Zero Strategy, Sixth Carbon Budget) requires a radical alteration in maritime industries, which contribute 2.2% of global GHG emissions. Ecomar's products are aimed at reducing transitional friction and enhancing commercial value for operators, with products which are easily "swappable" with existing engines and which extend operational periods by use of smart electronics and component design.The market opportunity is enormous, with major markets (EU, Asia, US) on a rapid transfer trajectory. The US Inflation Reduction Act will invest $380bn into clean energy transition technologies.The project builds upon five years of Ecomar development of innovative designs incorporating multiple patented innovations including axial flux motors, belt drives, bespoke vessel control electronics, bespoke tilt/trim mechanisms, and heat recovery. This funding and the equity matching it will unlock will enable critical development towards post-project completion of a market ready product ready for swift commercialisation in UK, US and European markets.The project aims to identify critical areas of operation and by incorporating research findings to enhance future high volume production methods. The project takes exiting prototype designs which are aimed at rapid decarbonisation of the commercial maritime sector and accelerating their adoption by addressing critical operational requirements.The shift from hydrocarbon propulsion to electric will be more readily accepted if the change creates minimal operation impacts and allows incumbent agencies to retain operational profiles and efficiencies. In practise this means that the new propulsion systems need to be intuitive to use, at least as cost effective and reliable as ICE motors are. This is a difficult equation to solve and the project aims to focus on identified aspects that differentiate electric from fossil fuel motors and to bring that into the final stage design and production planning of a range of outboard motors.