As regular readers know, Aaron and I have been dabbling with video. It’s fun. Sometimes, it can be an extremely effective way to learn about a product, as with our Torqeedo Video Test. We think our little videos look pretty darned good, all things considered.

But now the secret’s out, and we’re no longer the only [...]

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Hey, so, I’m excited about this. We found Carl of the C-Dory 25, Gigi, locally, and he has a Torqeedo Travel 801 folding electric outboard, and he agreed to have us do a video feature on it. So, we met him down at the marina in Edmonds, WA, where we took the Torqeedo [...]

I admit it. I have a little bit of an obsession with the Torqeedo electric outboards. They’re so cool. I got a demo of the Torqeedo Traveller from Steve Trkla, national sales manager for Torqeedo USA, at Strictly Sail. Sadly, there were camcorder handling issues, which is a shame as it would have made a [...]

Over at the Whitehall boats site, there’s the first write-up on one of the new electric outboards from Torqeedo with a Whitehall Spirit 17, a beautiful, classic rowboat. They liked how quiet it was, and it performed pretty well, pushing the test boat at up to 5.3 knots. Charging time was substantial (about 10 hours), [...]

Wow! No longer made of pure German unobtainium, the little, foldable Torqeedo 801 electric outboards are now available from West Marine for $1,600. Check the website.

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We spotted some intriguing, new, German-made, electric outboards at the Seattle Boatshow last weekend. They reminded me of my embarassingly expensive, yet amazingly designed and engineered cordless drill from Festool. So what do you get for your German-engineered buck? Well, the smallest unit in the line includes a lithium-manganese battery pack in the head of [...]