Northern Colorado hosted the world’s first 75 horsepower electric outboard motor during a demonstration at Island Lake in Fort Collins. The motor, the product of ACEL Power, a Vancouver-based company, ...

British modular electric drive specialist Saietta Group is preparing to launch its first electric outboard motor for boats and other watercraft. A year after spinning off the Propel marine division, ...

Mercury’s recently unveiled electric outboard motors are now on their way to customers after the company announced the beginning of shipments of the Avator 7.5e. And new performance testing shows just ...

A short while ago, I was talking with my colleague, good buddy, and sailing enthusiast Tim McKenzie. As an old-school kind of gent, he said he doesn't quite jive with two modern paradigms more than ...

Yamaha may be the largest, most well-known manufacturer of outboard motors in Japan, but Tohatsu Corporation beat it to market by a couple years back in the mid-20th century to become the country's ...

Vision Marine Technologies is a Canadian company that specializes in electric boats and it recently unveiled its 180 horsepower electric outboard motor called the E-Motion 180E, branding it the ...

Mercury Marine has just announced the launch of its two newest electric outboard motors, the Avator 20e and Avator 35e. The news follows the launch of Mercury’s first entry in the lineup, the Avator 7 ...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WLUK) -- A Fond du Lac company is launching its first electric outboard motor. Mercury Marine unveiled its Avator 7.5e model at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wednesday.

Back in 2015, I’d mused on these pages that my son, Evan, then in kindergarten, would likely own an electric-propelled boat. Now he’s in middle school and can operate a boat on his own. Has electric ...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. - Mercury Marine introduced its new Avator 7.5e electric outboard motor Wednesday, Jan. 4 at CES 2023 in Las Vegas. According to a news release, the Avator is Mercury Marine’s "next ...

The first timeI saw a kayak rigged with an electric outboard in the stern and trolling motor in the bow, I immediately imagined the places I could go and the fish I could catch. With the possibilities ...