Electric motors have become increasingly important to our future due to global population growth, limited oil reserves and efforts to limit global warming.
Your boat motor must be almost as good as a sail – light, super-quiet and sustainable. Torqeedo offers sailors electric drives for all boat lengths from the dinghy to the 80-foot catamaran: compact and powerful outboards, lightweight and space-saving pod drives, the most powerful electric saildrive on the market and the world’s first fully integrated hybrid drive with complete energy management from industrial production.
180 Marine is a full-line Torqeedo Dealer, contact us with questions about your electric powering needs. info@180marine.com
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The Torqeedo advantage
The focus is on optimising propulsive power and our use of the latest technologies means Torqeedo has the highest overall efficiency on the market. That is, every Torqeedo drive converts its available battery power to propulsive power better than any other outboard. This is very important for electric drives because it means more power and range from limited battery capacity.
Comparing the power of electric and petrol outboards: Torqeedo’s HP equivalent
Electric motors can achieve the same propulsive power as combustion engines with significantly lower shaft power. The reason lies in the different torque curves of electric motors and petrol engines. While the torque curve of combustion engines features a prominent peak, with maximum torque being available only over a limited engine speed range, electric motors feature a much flatter torque curve with ample torque available at any engine speed.
This characteristic allows them to run substantially higher efficiency propellers – even in lower performance classes – than combustion engines. Propeller efficiencies in the lower horsepower class can vary by a factor of 3 between petrol outboards and Torqeedo electric outboards.
To make the comparison easy for boaters used to shaft power ratings of petrol outboards, we always compare the actual propulsive power of our outboards versus petrol outboards. On the following pages, a Torqeedo outboard specified as a "3 HP equivalent" provides the same propulsive power as a 3 HP petrol outboard – even though its shaft power and input power may be substantially lower.
In the Technical Data section, we provide all information on input power, propulsive power, overall efficiency and comparable petrol outboards for your reference.
It is for these reasons that operating combustion engines is increasingly restricted or prohibited, especially on sensitive waters. This doesn't mean, however, that you can no longer enjoy boating.
180 Marine is a full-line Torqeedo Dealer, contact us with questions about your electric powering needs. info@180marine.com
"The Corsair's are probably the most fun boat you could possibly sail. And if you’ve only sailed monohulls, you need to give yourself the opportunity to try these boats. The majority of people make comments like, “where have I been all my life?” When they step on one of these I’ve heard people say that sailing a Corsair trimaran has totally changed their lives, and that they’ve returned to a much more active lifestyle after buying a Corsair. Some people basically rekindle their love of sailing because the excitement factor is so much higher than what they were used to before."
— Don Wigston
Corsair Dealer/Owner Dash 750 MKII
Gulf Coast Florida Panhandle