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The Boat Show – Electric Boats


so we’re lucky to be joined with Alan
bro who’s the president of impact plein
air thank you very much for being here
so explain you a little bit about your
company what exactly do you do the
company impact plein air we we sell
electric boat it’s a motor that creates
zero pollution and basically with the
electric motor you have a very good
reliability it starts all the time where
a gas motor you have to turn turn on the
engine crank the engine electric it goes
right away and I mean I’m assuming you
have to recharge the electric battery at
some point how do you how to exactly
does that work well you have you have
batteries and in one models you have two
batteries the other you have four
batteries they are six volts batteries
industrial batteries no memory so you
can discharge it to the end and then
recharge it and there’s no memory the
with these batteries you have an
autonomy of anywhere between 10 to 20
hours so it’s a lot of hours you know
compared to other boats are you a
pioneer in this field or hazard and
other electric power boat it’s funny you
ask because the electric boats have been
around before the gas motor boat it
started in 1892 with the company name
alco electric lunch company they’re
still around nowadays they’ve been
producing electric boats for more than a
hundred years but once the the gas motor
started and that is at the beginning of
the 90s now the market for the electric
boat went down
and it stayed down for many many years
but now for the last say the last five
to ten years it’s becoming more popular
because of you know the quietness that
you you can experience in these boats I
guess I would be the main advantage
right is it is a quietness compared to
something that’s that’s motorized got
powerful yeah it’s one of the main
advantages it’s quiet so you can talk as
we talk right now it makes no pollution
and it costs nothing in dance I notice
you have solar panels on the canopy of
this boat it’s only a little bit how
that works okay this is a new option we
started last summer it’s the solar
energy option so the idea is to have a
system that recharges the battery
permanently so that makes a boat a fully
autonomous well thank you again my
pleasure
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