Japan’s Kikou Maru Completes First Real-World Voyage on Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Batteries
The Kikou Maru is not a laboratory prototype. It is a working vessel of 4,800 deadweight tonnes and a 105-metre hull, and it has just completed a 20-nautical-mile crossing of Osaka Bay running exclusively on a hybrid propulsion chain built around hydrogen fuel cells, electric motors and lithium batteries. Operator Uyeno TransTec and the project’s … Read more