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Seagate Corporation to build first electric tugboat in Tokuyama city, Japan

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Tugboat will utilise an electric motor as a main power source, running with a large capacity lithium-ion battery that will be charged by a land charger.
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Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (K LINE) on Friday (22 July)  said its group company, Seagate Corporation Co., Ltd., a harbour logistics services provider, will build a new electric tugboat powered by battery.

The new tugboat will be equipped with a propulsion system running on a “Hybrid EV system”. 

It will utilise an electric motor as a main power source, running with a large capacity lithium-ion battery that will be charged by a land charger. It will also be equipped with a generator for an auxiliary power source.

It will be the first tugboat to have an electric motor as a main power source in Tokuyama and will be deployed in the first half of 2025 to reduce greenhouse gas emission in the city area, said K LINE. 

 

Photo credit: K LINE
Published: 25 July, 2022

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