IEEE Electrification Magazine - September 2017 - 2

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

The Marine
Electrical Revolution:
Battery Power at Sea
By Marta Molinas and Antonello Monti

N 1839, MORITZ HERMANN VON JACOBI CONstructed and tested a 28-ft electric motor boat with a
1-kW electric motor powered by zinc-platinum battery cells that could run at 4 km/h for 1.8 h. In Berlin in 1886,
Werner von Siemens tested the Elektra, his first electrically powered vessel; it featured a 4.5-kW electric motor, could operate at
speeds of 14 km/h for 3 h, and was intended to be a water taxi.
Now, more than 170 years after von Jacobi's experiment, on the
verge of global climate change and stringent environmental regulations such as the Paris Protocol and the International Maritime Organization MARPOL Annex VI, we are witnessing the
return of an old, wonderful dream. In 2015, the MF Ampere, the
world's first fully electric battery-powered passenger and car
ferry, featuring two 450-KW electric motors and 1 MW-h lithium-ion battery and capable
of speeds up to 18 km/h, has
In 1839, Moritz
opened new horizons.
Hermann von Jacobi
In this special issue, we
invite you on a journey across
constructed and tested
the seas of the future, through
a 28-ft electric motor
the most exciting examples of
boat with a 1-kW
technological developments
electric motor powered
and emerging regulations
that will make quiet, nonpolby zinc-platinum
luting sea voyages on batbattery cells that could
tery-powered ships a reality.
run at 4 km/h for 1.8 h.
We open the issue with the
article "Battery-Powered Ships:
A Class Society Perspective,"
in which authors Øystein Alnes, Sverre Eriksen, and BjørnJohan Vartdal introduce the driving forces toward batterypowered ships. The article highlights the stricter emission
regulations to come, which are intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from shipping vessels. The
authors state that by the International Maritime Organization

I

2

EDITORIAL BOARD
Iqbal Husain
Editor-in-Chief
North Carolina State
University
North Carolina, USA
ihusain2@ncsu.edu
Tamas Ruzsanyi
Editor, Electric Trains
Ganz-Skoda
Hungary
tamas.ruzsanyi@ieee.org
Eduardo Pilo de la Fuente
Editor, Electric Trains
EPRail Research
and Consulting
Spain
eduardo.pilo@eprail.com
Jose Conrado Martinez
Editor, Electric Trains
Directcion de Estrategia
y Desarrollo
Spain
jcmartinez@adif.es
Suryanarayana Doolla
Editor, Microgrid
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
India
suryad@iitb.ac.in
Mohammad
Shahidehpour
Editor, Microgrid
Illinois Institute
of Technology
Illinois, USA
ms@iit.edu
Steve Pullins
Editor, Microgrid
GridIntellect
Tennessee, USA
steve@gridintellect.com
Antonello Monti
Editor, Microgrid
RWTH Aachen
Germany
amonti@eonerc.
rwth-aachen.de
Marta Molinas
Editor, Electric Ships
Norwegian University of
Science and Technology
Norway
marta.molinas@ntnu.no
Herb Ginn
Editor, Electric Ships
University of
South Carolina
South Carolina, USA
ginnhl@cec.sc.edu
Robert Cuzner
Editor, Electric Ships
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Wisconsin, USA
Cuzner@uwm.edu

Chris Searles
Editor, Electric Vehicles
BAE Batteries
Wisconsin, USA
Chris.Searles@baebatteriesusa.com
Silva Hiti
Editor, Electric Vehicles
Faraday Future
California, USA
silva.hiti@ff.com
Eduard Muljadi
Editor, Electric Vehicles
NREL: Wind Research
Colorado, USA
eduard.muljadi@nrel.gov
Syed A. Hossain
Editor, Electric Planes
GE Aerospace
Ohio, USA
syed.hossain@ge.com
Kaushik Rajashekara
Editor, Electric Planes
University of Houston
Texas, USA
ksraja@central.uh.edu
Babak Nahid-Mobarakeh
Editor, Electric Planes
University of Lorraine
France
Babak.nahid@ieee.org
Bulent Sarlioglu
Editor, Electric Planes
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Wisconsin, USA
bulent@engr.wisc.edu
IEEE PERIOD IC ALS
MAGAZINES
DEPARTMEN T
445 Hoes Lane,
Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
Debby Nowicki
Managing Editor
Geri Krolin-Taylor
Senior Managing Editor
Janet Dudar
Senior Art Director
Gail A. Schnitzer,
Associate Art Director
Theresa L. Smith
Production Coordinator
Felicia Spagnoli
Advertising Production
Manager
Peter M. Tuohy
Production Director
Dawn Melley
Editorial Director
Fran Zappulla
Staff Director,
Publishing Operations
ADVERTISIN G SALES
Erik Henson
Naylor Association Solutions
Tel: +1 352 333 3443
Fax: +1 352 331 3525
ehenson@naylor.com

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MELE.2017.2718822
Date of publication: 5 September 2017

Khwaja Rahman
Editor, Electric Vehicles
General Motors
Michigan, USA
khwaja.rahman@gm.com

IE E E E l e c t r i f i c ati o n M agaz ine / SEPTEMBER 2017

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MELE.2017.2718820
http://www.iesusa.com http://www.rwth-aachen.de
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IEEE Electrification Magazine - September 2017
