Northern Colorado hosted the world’s first 75 horsepower electric outboard motor during a demonstration at Island Lake in Fort Collins. The motor, the product of ACEL Power, a Vancouver-based company, ...

Mercury’s recently unveiled electric outboard motors are now on their way to customers after the company announced the beginning of shipments of the Avator 7.5e. And new performance testing shows just ...

Working more than a dozen years ago at an Old Saybrook marine supplies outlet, Alex Yuknat cobbled together a custom-built electric motor for a boat owner, swapping out the fuel line in favor of ...

Suddenly American boaters have a variety of highly portable, blade-like electric outboard options to add a little clean, quiet power. Joining the recent North American launch of the RemigoOne from ...

British modular electric drive specialist Saietta Group is preparing to launch its first electric outboard motor for boats and other watercraft. A year after spinning off the Propel marine division, ...

A short while ago, I was talking with my colleague, good buddy, and sailing enthusiast Tim McKenzie. As an old-school kind of gent, he said he doesn't quite jive with two modern paradigms more than ...

Vision Marine Technologies is a Canadian company that specializes in electric boats and it recently unveiled its 180 horsepower electric outboard motor called the E-Motion 180E, branding it the ...

Mercury Marine has just announced the launch of its two newest electric outboard motors, the Avator 20e and Avator 35e. The news follows the launch of Mercury’s first entry in the lineup, the Avator 7 ...

Back in 2015, I’d mused on these pages that my son, Evan, then in kindergarten, would likely own an electric-propelled boat. Now he’s in middle school and can operate a boat on his own. Has electric ...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WLUK) -- A Fond du Lac company is launching its first electric outboard motor. Mercury Marine unveiled its Avator 7.5e model at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wednesday.