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Australia Reinvents the Naval Industry: Builds the World's Largest Electric Ferry with 130 Meters and 5,000 Batteries

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The Hull 096 has just completed its first tests in the waters of Hobart, in Tasmania. The largest electric ferry in the world powered only by batteries (without diesel, without liquefied natural gas, without any source of combustion) has lit its eight propellants for the first time and has sailed. Will it be the beginning of a new era for maritime transport? The ship is 130 meters long, weighs several thousand tons and carries on board a lithium…

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The Hull 096 has just completed its first tests in the waters of Hobart, in Tasmania. The largest electric ferry in the world powered only by batteries (without diesel, without liquefied natural gas, without any source of combustion) has lit its eight propellants for the first time and has sailed. Will it be the beginning of a new era for maritime transport? The ship is 130 meters long, weighs several thousand tons and carries on board a lithium…

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OKDIARIO broke the news on Saturday, April 25, 2026.
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