The next ship you board might run on batteries

Norway is taking the lead in efforts to develop battery-driven ships. "If you look at the next five years, this is what we'll be doing," said Erlend Hatleberg, a project manager at Havyard Group ASA.
Photo: Bloomberg
Photo: Bloomberg
by Mikael Holter and Jeremy Hodges, bloomberg

Not far from Norway's North Sea oil rigs, shipbuilders are assembling some of the first ferry boats ever to be powered entirely by batteries.

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