My words exactly - (with slight alteration, just to be different) Thank goodness there is sanity on this planet!

Totally 👍👍👏 to both comments 💚 🚢 ⛵ 🌞

Absolutely. Fantastic Episode!!

Says a Dutch guy ;)

@@orvvro Which has absolutely nothing to do with anything?

@@rogerstarkey5390 If you say so, so be it, let it be

I'M SPARTACUS

And makes me think I need to increase my support!

I think judging by Anne's accent that English is probably his first language & I'd guess Dutch second.

The Dutch are stereotypically better at speaking English then most Brits

@@KleineJoop That's interesting Man, thankyou for sharing 🙂

I am fluent in 3 languages. So that makes me beyond doubly impressive according to your measure. I will take that any day of the week. :)

@@matthewcreigh6624 "Than" :) Sorry, couldn't resist. ;) Also a dutchy here, and @M L : even if I'd been born 5 years earlier (and be a 50-something), I'd still have a fondness for the language through music and movies.

9600GTMAN - best not turn on your washing machine or dishwasher then :-)

@9600GTMAN you do know modern cruise liners use electric thrusters for steering? Or that submarines have been diesel electric since inception... your point is beyond invalid.

Making a comment about electricity and water not going together on a video like this, is like watching someone safely pack away a pair of scissors in a solid metal box and then commenting "you shouldn't run with scissors, it's not safe"

9600GTMAN you clearly know nothing about the safety of electric motors lol. These guys can’t just throw electric motors into boats and call it a day they have to pass strict safety tests and be extremely safe in many conditions including damage. How come Tesla’s don’t explode when submerged? Or right because they’re not idiots the batteries and electric motors are completely safe in water

@Gewdvibes ~ The electric canal Tug Boat is a winner, if it's tech passes or the marine tests, and can do the job. Damen the ship manufacturer will be watching these guys, they have a next gen hybrid electric diesel tugboats to handle the massive ships in harbour and coastal. They eventually are moving away from the diesel engines to the next gen Gas (LNG) engines, and have specialist 100 ft long LNG tanker pump station boats, that comes to the hybrid gas electric tugboats to fuel them up. Damen found that their diesel powered tugboats when on duty, run their engines constantly at idle between heavy pulling jobs and just standing on station to a non moving ship. That diesel engine idle on standby, accounts for almost 70% of the tugboats fuel costs.

Poor Jonny looked so embarrassed lol

hiddengrousefarm You are right. Unfortunately it‘s also propeller noise that is disturbing marine life. Change is not enough. We also have to reduce. 😉

I think you are on to a good idea.

I second that motion ;)

@@NewelectricNl Amazing! Love your work 👌

This! every boat makes that lovely 'babbling brook' sound.. it is just droned out by the ICE chugging along

Yeh, that does seem a long time ago... did you ever get to the EVTV car convention? That was a lot of fun :-)

I watched all the evtv shows and car conventions but Im in the UK so didn't go but would have loved to go. Did you go with an EV? I remember watching lone star on the dyno one year!

@@jbsmith1 that was John Metric with Assault & Battery..an electric miata (mx5). I remember it had so much torque, they could not strap it down tight enough.. wheels kept chirping :) :)

Hi New Electric! Yes that's the one, what a machine. I've been subscribed to your channel since it started and would love to see more updates on your projects if you have time.:-) Did Johnny tell you about his little electric drag car, its very impressive on 1/4 mile!;-)

Andcqe have too many boats with crapy engines in holkand

With the kits they are developing it becomes a drop in job. And if they focus on used parts like the nissan leaf it becomes pretty affordable. And a leaf powertrain is more then enough for a small classic.

You should come to Amsterdam and do a vlog with them.

come and say hi at Fully Charged Live in June :-)

@@KevinSharpe is it open for the public?

The greater aspect of this idea is the 3 R's. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Responsible embodied energy & resource management of what we already have. Why make a new product when reimagining the old one not only will do but will be better?

the show should had a warning "don't try this at home".... so good luck trying it...

@@nc3826 I've carried out a number of engine conversions and my day job is a vehicle project engineer so an electric conversion is firmly within my capabilities. The cost of motors, batteries and ancillaries in the UK however is my limiting factor! @Charles-A Rovira I like your style 👍

@@nc3826 It's not that hard to do conversions if you are handy. Some electrical and mechanical clue is needed, but it's really not rocket-science. It's much simpler than tweaking engines. As the parts get more standard it's getting easier. It's also easier in the UK than much of the rest of Europe, because we have quite relaxed rules on modified vehicles.

In the UK the limiting factor is, talk is free but beer cost money... So I looking forward to your posts mates after accepting the "challenge" Im just not holding my breath... And as a fellow engineer the most important thing to know, is to know what you don't know. BTW, Is a project engineer even real engineer? Or is it like the title locomotive engineer or sanitary engineer just a load of crap? 😂

Then come spend time on ours, your always welcome 👍-up.

You could move to Birmingham More canals than Venice

M L I don’t know exactly what you mean, indeed Amsterdam is just crazy left and their regulations are insane but love these kind of people that innovate themselves!

@@nickdegroot2445 I know exactly what M L means, so we'll see what they achieve in the near future.

sneltoch heheheh what do you mean? I have no idea what you are talking about

"People that innovate themselves" you said. Exact thats what's happening. Follow the E trend. But rebuilding a scrap Jag into an EV is not very innovative and even very pollutant. So nice to watch, but nothing to be proud of as a Dutchie.

Nick De Groot 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇩🇪😊

e-boats.nl/en/boten/anne-bonney/ ..Come to Amsterdam :) It can be hired for the day, with a great skipper that can show you all the best spots in town. Still in love? We can build you one from scratch!

future project, convert 54' sailboat to electric power. That would be amazing, cover most of the deck with solar, flexible panels could be stitched into the sails. Well, off to work to pay for all this.

@@NomadicPhoton It's always nice to hear when people are excited about solar-electric boats. But, as I see it, almost all solar-electric boats that qualify for more than toys are multihulls for good reasons: improved efficiency with narrow hulls and no keel ballast, plus lots of added surface area for solar panels; efficiency rather than top speed is key for solar-electric boats; this also includes superiority of pure displacement hulls (like double-ender canoes, with a fine bow entry and pointy stern) over the typical semi-displacement hulls with lots of rocker and a semi-submerged transom (like seen in most sailing yachts); slender hulls (high length/displacment ratio) can still easily go beyond the theoretical hull speed; stiching solar panels into sails also doesn't really work, e.g. because you can't reef them when the wind is too strong, so why not go 100% solar and forget about the sails? There are more advantages: less maintenance/repair (due to all the wear and tear that usually goes into mast/sails/rigging), increased stability (lower center of gravity and center of effort), smoother ride (no fluctuating forces associated with wind gusts), solar panels on the deck won't be in the shadow of the sails (remember: solar cells are internally wired in series, i.e. covering only a fraction of a panel in the shadow will make the voltage output drop to almost zero) and solar-electric also has less issues with going upwind; a low-profile (=low windage) trimaran design with all accomodations in the central hull and a large unobstructed deck surface covered with solar panels probably makes the most sense for solar-electric boats; only problem is: this needs to be built from scratch; converting a sailing boat into a solar boat gives away much of the theoretical potential

Not realising it is german and not dutch.

Thanks Chris & back at 'ya... you guys are rocking it hard yourselves! :)

i could not agree more, there should be a huge cottage industry in this country turning out re engineered EV older cars which can still go on for many years.... In the big cities upsetting no one except the vested interest corporates.

I'm sure there would be a huge market to replace the drivetrain in Vivaros - the vans are great, but the gearboxes suck and the injectors sieze in, which can mean huge repair costs. There's loads of room underneath for batteries to give it decent range. The problem is the cost - it'd cost as much as buying a new van to do the conversion. Until that's not the case, it just won't be worth doing, which is a huge pity as I'd think most of the vans in London do maybe 100 miles a day at most - imagine the pollution that would be stopped.

No. You need to suck in all that NO2 as a reminder of the damage you are doing to the planet. Perhaps all that foul air will motivate the inhabitants to move away from fossil fuels. Moving to more EVs at present would just shift the pollution to other areas.

​@@grantadamson3478 respectfully, how does 'moving to more EVs at present shift the pollution to other areas'? Is this because you assume that: a/ all the additional electricity generation would be done via polluting fuels and/or b/ that it is as efficient to refine oil and then transport and burn it into a car to make it move as it is to generate electricity (eg from oil) and then transport it and use it to power a car to move the same distance? Or have I misunderstood? cheers.

@@shonunezekiel Yes the answer is a / all the additional electricity generation would be done via polluting fuels. In England they rely on mostly fossil fuels to generate electricity. I can't see them changing rapidly to renewable and clean sources of fuel if there is no incentive at the personal level. Why have they not moved away from fossil fuels already. Hey, I like the idea of EVs but I doubt that the existing electrical infrastructure could handle a rapid rise in there uptake never mind a switch to green energy.

happy days Jeff :-)

Good to hear from you Jeff! Always welcome in Amsterdam for a visit :)

Anne will be at Fully Charged Live in June and would love to answer your questions :-) Did you see the discovery channel episode on the channel crossing attempt? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gd91aaqbxMfVpGg.html