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Torqeedo Sets Up Direct Distribution In Norway
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Torqeedo launches direct sales in Norway
Torqeedo has opened a direct sales office in Norway to serve the growing market for electric marine propulsion systems there. This is Torqeedo’s eighth direct sales office worldwide.
The company is already present in Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Thailand and the USA. So now Norway is to follow: “Norway is a world leader in the movement toward electrification of land and water transportation, with broad government support for green initiatives,” expresses Tommi Salonen, director of EMEA retail sales at Torqeedo.
The company is not starting from scratch in the Scandinavian country: Torqeedo is already supplying Deep Blue electric propulsion systems to Greenline Yachts, a manufacturer of electric and hybrid boats. In this context, Torqeedo is also working with Canal Boats Telemark. The goal is to launch an electric charter fleet of six new Greenline electric yachts in the Telemark Canal starting in May.
Print article Greenline Yachts supplies the first 100% electric charter fleet
Greenline Yachts, the worldwide leader in alternative propulsion motorboats, has teamed up with Canal Boats Telemark AS in Norway, W-Yachts and Torqeedo to create the first 100% electric charter fleet in the world. Canal Boats Telemark will operate six new Greenlines - two 33s and four 39s - all fitted with the shipyard’s revolutionary EDrive system, which was launched at Boot Düsseldorf in 2019. Since then, full electric Greenlines have been sold all over the world including to the USA, Germany and Russia.
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Thanks to their bank of lithium batteries and electric motors, the Greenline 33 and 39 can cruise silently and without any emissions at a speed of 7 knots and to a top speed of 11 knots. With their battery capacity of 80kWh, they have a range of up to 40nm on a single charge. Located in the picturesque surroundings of southern Norway, Porsgrunn is clo
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Slovenia’s Greenline Yachts has teamed up with Canal Boats Telemark AS in Norway, W-Yachts and Torqeedo to create what it describes as the “first 100% electric charter fleet in the world”.
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