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2. Electric boat - Wikipedia

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   An electric boat is a powered watercraft driven by electric motors, which are powered by either on-board battery packs, solar panels or generators. [1] While a significant majority of water vessels are powered by diesel engines, with sail power and gasoline engines also popular, boats powered by electricity have been used for over 120 years.

3. Trolling motor - Wikipedia

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   Trolling motor. 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.

4. Solar vehicle - Wikipedia

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   A solar vehicle or solar electric vehicle is an electric vehicle powered completely or significantly by direct solar energy. Usually, photovoltaic (PV) cells contained in solar panels convert the sun 's energy directly into electric energy. The term "solar vehicle" usually implies that solar energy is used to power all or part of a vehicle's ...

5. List of solar-powered boats - Wikipedia

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   Solar Sailor of Australia. List of solar-powered boats is a list of boats powered by the sun, typically solar panels providing electrical power to motors. Aditya, India's First Solar Ferry, [2] 75 passenger boat is operating in Vaikom, Kerala, India. [3][4] Alstersonne is a passenger ferry for 100 persons on the river Alster in Hamburg, Germany.

6. Electric rickshaw - Wikipedia

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   A directly solar-powered rickshaw is an electric auto rickshaw driven solely by one or more electric motors, powered by solar panels mounted on the vehicle and capable of operating while the vehicle is in motion. Theoretically, solar panels could provide power directly to the motor(s) without the need for batteries, but in reality, this would ...

7. Outboard motor - Wikipedia

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   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.