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Mercury Announcement 2/11/2021

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Here are some rumors

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Electric Outboards are coming! - The Hull Truth - Boating and Fishing Forum

The Boating Forum - Electric Outboards are coming! - Is the BIG news from Mercury Marine on February 11 related to Electric Outboards? There is Purewatercraft coming with their 50 hp electric outboard motor . Nope not BIG enough. There is Torqueedo Electric Deep Blue 40 coming with their 40 hp...
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Thanks for flagging this for all of us Jack! Looking forward to their big announcement.
 
So you can have 4 600hp instead of 5 450R motors. The turning lower units and 2 speed transmission are a game changer.
 
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So the lower unit turns, but not the engine.
Just like my inboard/outboard!!!
:D
I have been way ahead of my time and didn't even know it!
LOL!
 
Tin Diesel said:
So the lower unit turns, but not the engine.
Just like my inboard/outboard!!!
:D
I have been way ahead of my time and didn't even know it!
LOL!
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That was my initial thought after seeing that portion of the video: this is, in essence, an externally mounted I/O...which is utterly amazing.

Mercury just planted themselves as the Lamborghini or Ferrari of the marine motor world.
 
DejaWiz said:
It's been only 1 year since Volvo-Penta kicked off the manufacturing of 7 Marine outboards under their ownership...and now 7M is gone forever.
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Buyout (eliminate) your competition. Big business does it everyday.
 
SEMPERFI8387 said:
Buyout (eliminate) your competition. Big business does it everyday.
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They were citing reasons for clean/green initiatives:


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Volvo Penta to stop the sales and production of Seven Marine engines | Boating Industry



Probably due to Sweden's harsh deadline for emissions reduction regulations:

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Sweden’s Climate Act and Climate Policy Framework - Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (swedishepa.se)


...as well as the European Union studies (and subsequent/potential mandates) for emissions and noise reductions for watercraft (which they also include the USA and rest of the world in their case studies, so they likely threaten European Union-based marine companies with strict penalties if they attempt to use the USA or country that they classify as "rest of the world" for any type of marine manufacturing):

Consolidated TEXT: 32013L0053 — EN — 28.12.2013 (europa.eu)

EUROPA - IA Recreational Craft engines - Executive summary EN - FR - DE (psu.edu)
 
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