First crewless, zero emissions cargo ship will set sail in Norway

First crewless, zero emissions cargo ship will set sail in Norway(edition.cnn.com)

23 points by lnguyen 4 years ago | 5 comments

schroeding 4 years ago |

Wow, so cool! Basically a giant 80 meter long RC ship with an autopilot! :-)

It also has a way smaller battery capacity than I would have expected to be necessary for a (small) cargo ship, even for the short range of 64 nautical miles (~120km). Ships are pretty efficient, apparently. :-D

blacksmith_tb 4 years ago | |

In the images is looks like the main deck is 4 x 11 containers, I guess any kind of 'canopy' of solar panels above them would need to be easy to remove when it came time to load or unload, but that's a pretty large amount of area (depending on the weather it was sailing in - though I suppose like being becalmed, if your robot ship needed sunshine to sail, it'd just have to wait until the clouds parted...)

brundolf 4 years ago |

Assuming it's more than a publicity stunt, this is the kind of thing we really need to combat climate change. Cargo ships are enormous polluters (and not even just of greenhouse gases)

tsjq 4 years ago |

Hasn't Tesla done this already?

anaganisk 4 years ago | |

I don’t remember Tesla ever attempting it, care to provide a link?