Norway's Bastø Electric Shows What Five Years of Ferry Electrification Looks Like
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The Bastø Electric, a 139.2-meter all-electric ferry with a 4.3-MWh battery, has operated on Norway's busy Moss-Horten crossing for five years since March 2021, making roughly 36,000 departures annually carrying close to 2 million vehicles and around 4 million passengers per year—proving that large-scale, routine electric ferry operation is viable.
The Bastø Electric is no longer the world's largest all-electric ferry; larger battery vessels with 40+ MWh capacity have since been built, though they lack Bastø's track record of sustained routine operation.
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