Elektra, Finland\u2019s first purpose-built battery electric ferry, operates on a 1MWh battery system supplied by PBES and celebrates its first year of service this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of the unique characteristics of its performance are directly a result of the PBES technology onboard. CellCoolTM technology allows the battery to be recharged in 5 minutes and at end of life it is easily refurbished and upgraded using the PBES CellSwapTM system,\u201d said said Grant Brown, Vice President Marketing at PBES<\/p>\n
Industry kudos<\/strong><\/p>\n Elektra has an overall length of 98m, beam of 15m and draft of 3.55m, with five lanes to accommodate up to 90 cars.<\/p>\n The vessel travels its 1.6 km route across the Finnish Archipelago year-round. Due to heavy ice conditions in the winter months, it carries auxiliary power generation equipment to augment the battery when needed.<\/p>\n It’s not the only industry accolade for Elektra this year. The ferry also won the international Ship of the Year Award at the marine industry\u2019s Sulphur Cap 2020 Conference in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n It was up against stiff competition from the LNG vessels Cardissa from Shell and Christophe de Margerie from Sovcomflot.<\/p>\n PBES designs and manufactures high power lithium-ion energy storage and is focused on providing value and safety for industrial, marine and grid energy storage applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A battery powered electric ferry has won an award at the Electric and Hybrid Marine World Expo for Propulsion System of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}