Shipping a battery pack, such as an 18650 lithium battery, costs between $10 and $250. This depends on the carrier, destination, and express shipping fees.
How much does a battery cost?
The price of a lithium-ion battery pack used to power an electric vehicle has plunged 89% in the last decade, from $1,100 per kWh to $137 per kWh. Marine batteries still cost significantly more, ranging between $800-$1,000 per kWh for retrofits to $500 per kWh for newbuilds. DNV expects the cost of batteries to be reduced by 56% by 2025.
Does shipping electrification create an opportunity for battery electric shipping?
The United States' greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals, along with targets set by the International Maritime Organization, create an opportunity for battery electric shipping. In this study, we model life-cycle costs and GHG emissions from shipping electrification, leveraging ship activity datasets from across the United States in 2021.
Why should you choose a marine battery system?
We provide independent analysis, verification and validation services, as well as training courses on maritime battery systems. All electric and hybrid ships with energy storage in large Li-ion batteries can provide significant reductions in fuel cost, maintenance and emissions as well as improved responsiveness, regularity and safety.
Although battery electric ships (BESs) have received considerable attention, questions remain about their feasibility due to challenges related to scaling up battery sizes 5, the difficulty of bringing electricity to vessels for charging 6 and ship weight constraints.
There are generally three concerns for battery-powered ships. The first is cargo efficiency: energy density of a battery (about 0.18–0.26 kWh kg −1) (refs. 15, 16) is much lower than HFO (about 11.1 kWh kg −1) (ref. 17), which creates range anxiety 18.
Will battery electric ships serve 100% of Historical Trips?
Under a DEC35 scenario, annual CO 2 e emissions will be reduced by 73% in 2035 (0.7 MMTCO 2 e) and cumulative CO 2 e emissions between 2022 and 2050 will decrease by 58% (30 MMTCO 2 e). Previously, the expectation that battery electric ships would serve 100% of historical trips may have led to underestimations of their feasibility.