World's Largest Fully Electric Ship: Biggest EV Ever Built
- Editor OGN Daily
- May 9
- 1 min read
An Australian shipbuilder has launched the world's largest fully electric ship, marking a turning point for clean maritime transport.
Whilst small electric ferries are becoming increasingly common around the globe, this one from Incat, a Tasmania-based manufacturer, is at a completely new scale. Indeed, the 400-foot-long Hull 096 vessel - the biggest electric vehicle ever built - runs entirely on battery power and has been built for South American ferry operator Buquebus. It will carry 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles between Buenos Aires and Uruguay without using any fossil fuels. Better yet, the vessel also features a huge duty-free shopping deck - the largest retail space on any ferry in the world
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The ship's energy system includes more than 250 metric tons, or roughly 275 tons, of batteries and delivers over 40 megawatt-hours of capacity (four times as large as any previous maritime installation) to power eight electric-driven waterjets.
"This ship changes the game," said Incat Chairman Robert Clifford. "We've been building world-leading vessels here in Tasmania for more than four decades, and Hull 096 is the most ambitious, most complex, and most important project we've ever delivered."
"Hull 096 proves that large-scale, low-emission transport solutions are not only possible, they are ready now," said Incat CEO Stephen Casey.
