{"id":16228,"date":"2020-08-25T16:53:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/e5-lab-launches-roboship-project-to-promote-zero-emission-electric-vessels\/16228\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T16:53:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:53:18","slug":"e5-lab-launches-roboship-project-to-promote-zero-emission-electric-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/e5-lab-launches-roboship-project-to-promote-zero-emission-electric-vessels\/16228\/","title":{"rendered":"e5 Lab Launches ROBOSHIP Project to Promote Zero-Emission Electric Vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Developing Standard Models of Electric Vessels, ROBOSHIP Ver. 1.0<br \/>Thoroughly Committing to Cost Competitiveness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The team developed two types of electric vessels in the\u00a0<em>ROBOSHIP Ver. 1.0<\/em>, with standard gross tonnage specifications \u2014 499 tons and 749 tons. They will be able to achieve the same speed and sailing range as vessels\u00a0currently in service, while achieving zero-emission operation in port, due to the large-capacity storage batteries in combination with a diesel-powered generator. These vessels will achieve higher energy efficiency than other vessels in service with the e5 Lab partners\u2019 knowledge and experience, as well as the world\u2019s most efficient electric devices (DC grids, PM motors, AI technology).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>ROBOSHIP Ver. 1.0\u00a0<\/em>can significantly reduce not only the workload of seafarers, but also lower the risk of mechanical problems and decrease maintenance costs, because the motors are powered only by electricity. The team\u2019s current target is to keep construction costs less than 5% above the cost of comparable existing vessels. The\u00a0<em>ROBOSHIP Ver. 1.0\u00a0<\/em>is slated for delivery within 2022.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Electric Vessel, DX Accelerate Evolution of Ocean Shipping and Maritime Affairs with ROBOSHIP BOX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>e5 Lab, along with the partners, will promote the\u00a0<em>ROBOSHIP\u00a0<\/em>and accelerate maritime digital transformation (DX) by\u00a0<strong>offering the\u00a0<em>ROBOSHIP BOX\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>as well as\u00a0<strong>the EV powertrain,\u00a0<\/strong>which is a key technology of the\u00a0<em>ROBOSHIP<\/em>,\u00a0<strong>to all interested shipyards and shipowners.\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0<em>ROBOSHIP\u00a0<\/em>BOX is the foundation that connects the vessel and shore and enables shore-side support using digital technology. The broad application of the\u00a0<em>ROBOSHIP\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>ROBOSHIP BOX\u00a0<\/em>will realize competitive and value-added vessels from various aspects such as environmental friendliness, economy, quality, and performance, with the goal achieving a transition to electric vessels and digitalization in the ocean shipping and maritime industries.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>e5 Lab and its partners will continue to develop and market the\u00a0<em>ROBOSHIP<\/em>, fostering sustainable development in Japan\u2019s ocean shipping and maritime industries and fueling the creation of new values.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Main Characteristics of Standard Models of ROBOSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing Standard Models of Electric Vessels, ROBOSHIP Ver. 1.0Thoroughly Committing to Cost Competitiveness The team developed two types of electric vessels in the\u00a0ROBOSHIP Ver. 1.0, with standard gross tonnage specifications \u2014 499 tons and 749 tons. They will be able to achieve the same speed and sailing range as vessels\u00a0currently in service, while achieving zero-emission &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[225,10480,1586,125,3329,10469,304,5642],"class_list":["post-16228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-electric","tag-lab","tag-launches","tag-project","tag-promote","tag-roboship","tag-vessels","tag-zeroemission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/16229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}