Ship&Offshore | Issue GreenTech/2018
Hybrid system for Wadden Sea water taxi
The 18.7m-long catamaran Liinsand operated by Watten Fährlinien GmbH on tours around the environmentally sensitive German Wadden Sea now has a hybrid energy system on board with lithium-ion batteries supplied by Becker Marine Systems. The Cobra battery system, as it is called, has been specially designed for maritime requirements and is manufactured by Becker at a new production facility in Winsen an der Luhe. The Wattentaxi, as the Liinsand is known, has two separate hybrid diesel propulsion systems with two propellers, two Becker rudders and two battery systems of 50 kWh each....