All Market Intelligence articles – Page 19
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Electrification
Honda to supply Yamaha with e-motorcycles for Japanese market
Honda Motor Company will supply Yamaha Motor Company with electric motorcycle models for the local market in an effort to “further popularize electric motorcycles in the Class-1 category in Japan, the two companies announced Thursday.
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News
BIA: Australian industry turnover up 5% 2023/24
Boating industry association presents latest figures on opening day of the Sydney show
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen on Demand
New technology to generate hydrogen on the fly eliminates the need for bulky high-pressure fuel tanks, suddenly making the technology more practical for commercial vessels and luxury yachts alike
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Green Technologies
Biofuel blend supply chain trial concludes, with interesting results
Trial looks to ascertain whether suspicions of excess water content in some biofuels in warranted as supply chain under the spotlight
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen from common boating ingredients
Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may just have stumbled across the perfect seafarer’s recipe for generating hydrogen – seawater, coffee grounds and beer cans.
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Navigation
Machine vision added to advanced navigation system
Marine navigation software specialist TimeZero has announced an integration with SEA.AI’s thermal and optical image sensing system that provides enhanced situational awareness on the bridge.
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen energy and mobility initiative for Venice
In the news recently for a spate of flooding, by water and by tourism, the Italian city if Venice has established a sustainability foundation (VSF) to preserve and decarbonise the transport infrastructure, including marine.
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Italy
Insight | CMC Marine - Platforms for growth
A three-pillar, €10m growth strategy has the Italian stabilisation specialists on a roll
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News
Bank of Canada cuts interest rate for second straight month
Further rate reductions anticipated as inflation continues to ease and boat sector plans for 2025
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Hydrogen
Yanmar compact hydrogen fuel cell power system debuts in September
Yanmar Energy Systems, a subsidiary of Yanmar Holdings has commercialized a compact and multi-unit controllable hydrogen fuel cell power generation system and will begin accepting orders in Japan this September.
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Green Technologies
Carbon capture to rock start-up raises $37m
Oman-based 44.01 has successfully completed its Series A investment round to enable further development and commercialisation of a process that permanently locks CO2 into rock by mineralising it.
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Battery Technologies
Sodium quasi solid-state batteries inch closer with £1.3m grant
Research intensifies to meet global demand for cost-effective EV batteries
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Propellers
Bionic dolphin skin propeller saves fuel on oil tanker test
The ability to mimic the laminar flow characteristics of dolphin skin on the large four-bladed propeller of a 300,000 tonne crude carrier has saved two per cent of fuel over a 35,000nm test
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Green Technologies
Next-gen composites for more sustainable boat building
The adoption of next-generation composites is said to allow boat builders to create higher performance products with greater recyclability – all while reducing their overall manufacturing footprint. Is that claim accurate, or is it simply too good to be true?
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Superyacht Technology
New thruster design for superyacht sub
Thrusters designed in house for more power and much quieter operation, could have other applications outside the submersible market.
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen to fuel new Yamaha test facility
Manufacturer looks to minimize Scope 1 CO2 emissions across the lifecycle of its products
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Battery Technologies
Laser ‘cobots’ to assist battery builders
A new system from US based IPG Photonics harnesses the company’s latest laser technology with robotics to speed up custom battery manufacturing
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Hydrogen
Liquid hydrogen refuelling station for buses could pave the way for marine applications
Hydrogen has long been seen as a replacement fuel for heavy transport, including large yachts, mainly by creating large amounts of electricity via fuel cells, but problems have surrounded the storage of this volatile gas.
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Hydrogen
JCB unveils IC hydrogen-powered genset
The British multinational machinery manufacturer has extended its work with internal combustion hydrogen engines to produce a concept for off-grid zero emissions power.
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Battery Technologies
US firm develops first ‘forever-chemical-free’ battery
New lithium chemistry delivers 20% more power without the use of “forever chemicals” in a battery said to be competitively priced with other cobalt-based electrodes