I wonder how they charge it up? Obviously, they have a means to charge or swap out batts on the Chinese end, but what about at the delivery port? Otherwise it has to have enough juice to do a round trip wherever it goes. Maybe it has a backup generator to charge it, but that would obviously run on diesel.
Now, IF all shipping was converted tomorrow to batt power, how much additional load would that put on the grid supporting all the ports that had charging stations? How long do the ships need to stay plugged in at port to fully charge for a trip from shanghai-seattle?
Technologically speaking, this is about the easiest transition to make since there isn't much constraint on size or weight for the batts. To make it really GREEN though, all the charging has to come from renewables, which I doubt the Chinese are doing with just this 1 ship, much less trying to convert all the COSCO fleet to electric. For now this is just a greenwashing gimmick for propaganda purposes.
https://electrek.co/2024/05/02/fully-electric-10000-ton-container-ship-begun-service50000-kwh-batteries/
A fully-electric 10,000 ton container ship has begun service equipped with over 50,000 kWh in batteries
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