Motorcycling trends: by the numbers

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Sea-Doo is a pretty nice product. Pretty sure they make the Spark hulls in Mexico.
Any company that is selling internationally is going to outsource even if it's just to keep up to product demand in those countries, they buy a lot of Rotax combustion technology or products too, but if they are to introduce an electric motor hopefully it will be of their own production, imho.

... electric sea-doo would be pretty cool too.
 
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Trials said:
... electric sea-doo would be pretty cool too.
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Powered watercraft will be one of the last ICE holdouts. It's hard to average over 50 hp on land, but easy to use many times that on water. Hell, most watercraft at speed will never get down to 30 hp, add in the 30% efficiency penalty for a jet over a prop and you are probably at 50 hp or more just to keep it planing. That is just murder for batteries. Electric jetskis could find some uses (eg. tricks, lifeguard duty), but the vast majority of boaters will be using ICE for the foreseeable future.
 
@greyghost, I think you'd be surprised re watercraft. Lets start at the beginning, ELCO yachts at the turn of the last century was a big manufacturer making 30-40-50 ft commuter and recreational boats for the new robber baron tycoons, "elco" was the electric boat company, in 1905 getting an electric motor that could push a yacht was the norm, gas was the oddity.
Then came the Standard Oil tycoons, lets crush anything electric including cars, things need to be burning oil.
And now there is serious shift to electric outboards, mines a Torqeedo, and electric conversions to get 30-50ft yachts off diesel motors. Part of the trend includes a smaller deisel gen set making power for a bigger electric motor, you can offset that with solar panels which are easy to build into a boat, and wind generators which are pretty common on cruising sailboats.
Its a thing now.
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