{"id":60731,"date":"2023-08-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/?p=60731"},"modified":"2023-08-17T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:55:30","slug":"trends-mercury-avator-electric-outboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/gear\/trends-mercury-avator-electric-outboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury’s First Electric Outboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Mercury\u2019s Avator 7.5e electric outboard is comparable in output to its 3.5 hp gasoline outboard.<\/span>\n Courtesy Mercury Marine<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n\n

Mercury<\/a> is the first major manufacturer of marine internal-combustion engines<\/a> to offer an electric<\/a> outboard<\/a> option. The Avator 7.5e delivers comparable performance metrics to Mercury\u2019s time-tested 3.5 hp four-stroke gasoline engine, minus the locally emitted carbon dioxide. The Avator 7.5e is also the only outboard currently on the market with a transverse flux motor, a design that Andrew Przybyl, Mercury\u2019s technical manager and engineer for the Avator line, says has high-torque-density characteristics. The Avator 7.5e comes with a 1 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery that nests inside the outboard\u2019s flip-top cowl, and a color display with GPS that gives operators a wealth of real-time range information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the biggest challenges we had was setting up the overall architecture of the outboard,\u201d Przybyl says. The solution involved auditioning different concepts and designs, and then choosing the right supporting technologies, including batteries, motor types and overall configurations. \u201cIn electrification, overall system efficiency is the name of the game,\u201d he says. \u201cThe other aspect was sustainability. This outboard is highly recyclable.\u201d Creating a recyclable design, Przybyl says, involved using componentry from nontraditional materials. \u201cSustainability is an important part of our culture,\u201d Przybyl says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the Avator 7.5e is intended for use aboard smaller boats, Mercury plans to release the bigger Avator 20e and 35e outboards later this year. All three of these electric motors will employ similar architecture, displays and companion apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charge and Go<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Mercury Marine Avator 7.5e can run for 60 minutes at full throttle off a charged-up 1 kilowatt-hour battery, or for as long as 2.8 hours at 75  percent throttle (or 6.2 hours at 50 percent throttle, or 19.4 hours at 25 percent throttle). Users can also change out batteries in seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mercury Avator 7.5e outboard from has the same output as a 3.5 hp gasoline outboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":60733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"David Schmidt","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"158","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"The Mercury Avator 7.5e is Mercury Marine's first electric outboard. The outboard has the same output as a 3.5 hp gasoline outboard.","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","custom_permalink":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":true,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","sponsored_url":"","social_share":true,"ad_targeting":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true},"categories":[158],"tags":[448,450,624,168,2126,855,1112],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}