Maritime transport is responsible for around three percent of global CO2 emissions and is under increasing pressure to improve its environmental footprint. In the past, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has introduced stricter regulations to drive decarbonization. The electrification of ships could play a key role in this. A large proportion of the 91,000 ships worldwide could be converted to electric or hybrid propulsion using current technology.
But how realistic is the electrification of the maritime industry? What technological and regulatory hurdles need to be overcome, and what advantages do electric drives offer over traditional combustion engines? We talk about this today with Markus Emmert, board member of the German Federal Association for eMobility.
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Markus Emmert is a corporate, municipal and political consultant (energy, environment and electromobility). His experience of over 20 years in the field of renewable energies, his scientific work in the field of electrical engineering (eMSR, ICT and BI), as well as his various inventions, patents, utility models and their developments make him one of the leading experts in this field.
The Bundesverband eMobilität is an association of companies, institutions, researchers and users of new mobility who are committed to converting mobility based on renewable energies to electromobility.