ELCO Motor Yachts and HUNTER MARINE corporation have jointly developed a sailboat Hunter 27 with electric propulsion.
The diesel engine is replaced by one electric engine Elco EP-1000de 10 cv having the same power as the standard diesel engine of 14 CV.
The engine Elco is totally green and is classified " Zero Emission " because as it is running exclusively on batteries (6 batteries without maintenance of 12 V 214 A/h)
These batteries are rechargeable using electric plugs in harbor and / or with adapted equipments on the boat such as wind turbine or solar panels.
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