jlc.thomsen
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Old tech/new tech 1950 Tesla boat 🚣🏼♀️
Me and my middle son have had this boat for 4 years now. It was a nice wooden Swedish boat from 1950.
Motor was a 1972 Volvo Penta where you had to add lead to make it run. But the motor was gone and couldn’t be saved.
We installed a turbine motor and 4 serious ion batteries.
We’re selling it as we need to move on to some other projects and just didn’t use it enough. Now that we’re pimping it up to be sold and just installed a new old style mahogany deck we’re having second thoughts.
Photo credits: private photos jlcthomsen
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Old tech/new tech 1950 Tesla boat 🚣🏼♀️
Me and my middle son have had this boat for 4 years now. It was a nice wooden Swedish boat from 1950. Motor was a 1972 Volvo Penta where you had to add lead to make it run. But the motor was gone and couldn’t be saved. We installed a turbine motor and 4 s...
Sounds like an exciting project
Several engineers have also updated vintage cars with such setups but the cost to customers is usually prohibitive. Thanks for the pics!
We did it ourselves bit by bit with the help of some friends-most challenging was the programming and battery management-but had great support from the manufacturers Kräutler in Austria and Super B in Netherlands
Most crazy is the silence, like on a sail boat as you only hear the waves against the wooden ship hull.
But indeed
Range anxiety reaches another level to such matters in the automotive world!
Oh yes especially when the software tells you you have plenty of battery left but you don’t
We tried that a few times as the technology was super new. With this technology the software has to make sure you to both charge and discharge the batteries evenly.
Hows the range?
Guess there is a lack of superchargers in most ports aswell but can be a fun little project anyway.
It can charge on a normal plug and there’s a VfD regulator on board so you don’t take the breakers out in the harbour( we never did)
Takes 1 hour to reach 80% and another hour to get to 100%
It can run 4-5 hours on low speed 5-7 knots
Max speed 11 knots. But it’s not a planing boat. Even if you had a big engine this boat type will just dip.
Yes we made a pact when we bought the boat.
And we both have bad conscience that we don’t use it enough. 🙃
We tried. It was a mess to have this thing on board smelling of gas
And the point was sort of lost somehow. The area is fine for these 4-5 hours trips.
Yeah superchargers would be cool
We have a lot of electric boats in Copenhagen. But all rentals. No one private has done the jump yet. Except us. Hope we find someone just as crazy. It’s a joy to cruise in silence.
Fun!
How many knots can it do? At a more efficient cruise speed how many hours can she operate between charges?
Of course. Love it! But that’s a different story. 800 HP?
Looking forward to the ride!
