Wasaline’s Aurora Botnia Slated for Biggest Ever Battery Retrofit

Wasaline’s Aurora Botnia Slated for Biggest Ever Battery Retrofit

Finnish ship owner Wasaline is partnering with marine battery manufacturer AYK Energy to undertake the biggest battery retrofit so far carried out on...

Wasaline RoPax Aurora Botnia set for world's largest battery retrofit yet

Wasa Line's Aurora Botnia is to get a battery fretrofit the will giive it with an additional 10.4 MWh of battery capacity,

Wasaline to retrofit ferry with 10.4MWh lithium iron phosphate battery

Wasaline plans to expand the onboard battery capacity of hybrid ro-pax ferry Aurora Botnia with an additional 10.4MWh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, which is to be supplied by marine battery company AYK Energy in autumn 2025 and in operation in January 2026. Aurora Botnia’s propulsion technology After being built by Rauma Marine Constructions, Aurora Botnia entered service on August 28, 2021. The ferry was originally designed to be propel…

Wasaline To Install Largest-Ever Battery Retrofit On Ferry, Aurora Botnia

Image Credits: Wikipedia Finnish shipping company, Wasaline, has announced its plans to upgrade the battery system on its hybrid ferry, Aurora Botnia. The company plans to install a new 10.4 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery system by autumn 2025, which will be the largest battery retrofit ever done on a vessel. The upgraded system is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 23% and cut fossil fuel use by around 10,000 MWh each year. The new bat…

Baltic ferry to have largest-ever battery retrofit

Battery technology is advancing at speed as the latest retrofit on board a Finnish ferry by Wasaline demonstrates.