The boat industry tends to trail the auto industry by 5 or so years when it comes to technology that can be mass produced, but it looks like electric motors are really ready to make a splash. At the Miami Boat Show this past week, Mercury unveiled it's new concept Avator electric motor, slated for release later this year. Correct Craft launched its Ingenity all electric day boat. Vision Marine and Torqeedo updated their outboards. And ePropulsion has been growing its dealer network while Flux Marine is ready to introduce their outboard to the market this year. On top of all that General Motors invested $150million in Pure Electric and have started producing an all electric pontoon! It is safe to say, the technology is here and time will tell if consumer demand will meet the innovation happening in this space.

If you are interested in learning more about electric boating, we would love to chat! We sell Torqeedo and ePropulsion motors and will soon be a Torqeedo service center. We will also have a Flux Marine outboard in our boat club fleet.

While we don't think traditional gas motors are going to disappear, we do think that there is a segment of the boating population who will appreciate the clean, emission-free, quiet ride of electric boats and want to help them get on that journey!