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The Mercury Avator 7.5e electric outboard. (Brunswick) (Brunswick) While Brunswick pushes into the future, the realities of today — at least from a business point of view — are a little uncertain.
The 7.5e electric motor is the first in a series of electric outboard products that will be released in 2023. Mercury also displayed concepts for its Avator 20e and 35e outboard motors, which will ...
The electric outboards are being manufactured in Fond du Lac where Mercury Marine also makes its gasoline outboards over 60 horsepower. The company’s smaller gasoline engines are made in China.
Electric drives are also available as auxiliary propulsion for sailing yachts on inland waters. Electric outboards and trolling motors have been available for some years at prices from about $100 (US) up to several thousand. These require external batteries in the bottom of the boat, but are otherwise practical one-piece items.
A trolling motor is a self-contained marine propulsion unit that includes an electric motor, propeller and control system, and is affixed to an angler's boat, either at the bow or stern. A gasoline-powered outboard used in trolling, if it is not the vessel's primary source of propulsion, may also be referred to as a trolling motor.
The first known outboard motor was a small 11 pound (5 kg) electric unit designed around 1870 by Gustave Trouvé, [9] and patented in May 1880 (Patent N° 136,560). [10] Later about 25 petrol powered outboards may have been produced in 1896 by American Motors Co [ 9 ] —but neither of these two pioneering efforts appear to have had much impact.