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 ...

Mercury Marine just showed off two new electric outboard motors at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The newly unveiled Avator 75e and 110e now become the company’s new largest ...

Mercury Marine’s recent ­foray into the ­electric-outboard market began with the ­Avator 7.5e, but as promised, both a higher-powered ­Avator 20e and 35e have now joined the lineup. Offering ­power ...

Flux Marine co-founders Ben Sorkin, Daylin Frantin and Jon Lord say that they began developing an electric outboard ­motor in a garage. That’s a startup plan that worked out for Bill ­Harley and ...

The proliferation of e-bikes started with easy-to-install conversion kits that allowed riders to take their existing bicycle and convert it into an electric bike. Now, electric boats are charting a ...

ACEL Power Inc. today announced outstanding test results for the new Porrima P111 rigid-inflatable boat (RIB). During sea trials last week, the 5.2 m (17 ft) aluminium centre-console RIB, powered by ...

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 ...

Electric power only started making sense for land vehicles about ten years ago, but now the technology is ready to make the jump into the water. Pure Watercraft hopes that its electric outboard motor ...

Working more than a dozen years ago at an Old Saybrook marine supplies outlet, Alex Yuknat cobbled together a custom-built electric motor for a boat owner, swapping out the fuel line in favor of ...

Clamped or bolted to the stern of the boat, outboard motors offer a very easy and (relatively) economical way of powering small craft. The vast majority of these outboards are gasoline powered, with ...

Flux Marine has an influx of new funding. The Rhode Island developer of all-electric outboard motors and battery systems for watercraft says it’s raised $15.5 million in an oversubscribed Series A ...