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马达，用于商业运作，包括港口巡逻、引航船、沿海渡轮和货运、风力发电场支持和离岸支持船只。到2030年实现清洁能源目标(净零战略，第六次碳预算)需要对占全球温室气体排放量2.2%的海运业进行根本性改变。ECOMAR的产品旨在减少过渡性摩擦，提高运营商的商业价值，产品易于与现有发动机“互换”，并通过使用智能电子产品和组件设计延长运营周期。市场机会巨大，主要市场(欧盟、亚洲、美国)正处于快速转移轨道上。美国《降低通货膨胀法案》将投资3800亿美元用于清洁能源转换技术。该项目建立在ECOMAR五年来创新设计开发的基础上，这些创新设计结合了多种专利创新，包括轴向磁通电机、皮带传动、定制的船舶控制电子设备、定制的倾斜/调整机制和热回收。这笔资金和它将释放的股权匹配将使关键发展朝着项目后完成的关键方向发展，为在英国、美国和欧洲市场迅速商业化的产品做好准备。该项目旨在确定关键的运营领域，并通过纳入研究成果来改进未来的大批量生产方法。该项目采用现有的原型设计，旨在商业海事部门的快速脱碳，并通过满足关键的操作需求来加速采用。如果改变对运营的影响最小，并允许现有机构保持运营概况和效率，则从碳氢化合物推进到电力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，至少与ICE发动机一样具有成本效益和可靠性。这是一个很难解决的方程式，该项目的目标是专注于区分电动马达和化石燃料马达的识别方面，并将其纳入一系列舷外马达的最后阶段设计和生产计划。

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.