Where to charge your electric boat this summer
Charging map helps consumers find their way
A well-developed charging infrastructure will be crucial for more people to consider buying an electric boat or converting their existing boat to an electric powertrain. Being able to charge only in your home port will eventually not be enough for those boat owners who appreciate spending longer time at sea. The demand for public chargers for electric boats is not yet so great, but if the transition at sea follows the development of electric cars, demand will increase in the coming years. For those who invest in charging equipment and service development in this area, it is obviously critical that the chargers are actually used and thus also made visible to electric boat owners.
- We see that there will be a need for charging maps for boats just as there is today for cars. Through the go:LEIF project, we are starting a dialog with various players in the market to see how we can together make existing and hopefully also planned charging points visible to consumers, says Peter Berg who is the project manager for go:LEIF and Innovation Manager at Innovatum Science Park in Trollhättan.
Today, there are not many players on the Swedish market that offer charging of electric boats, especially not supercharging like those available for cars. The issue of charging maps for boats is important for consumers to dare to buy an electric boat and be part of the green transition at sea. In order to make it easier for boat owners to find charging facilities, go:LEIF is now working on creating a comprehensive charging map from Gothenburg in Sweden to Kristiansand in Norway. The charging map will be launched in May 2024 here on elbat.org.
