Electric boat motor options

Our most popular motors are outboard and stern-drive types which can be clamped or bolted onto the stern of a huge range of existing boat designs, many of which originally had highly polluting, high maintenance, noisy and unreliable two-stroke petrol outboards.

We offer a full range of inboard (shaft drive) motors which can be installed on the same bearers as an old diesel or petrol engine. This includes a Hybrid electric drive which installs between the diesel engine and the propeller shaft, working as either a generator or a motor.

Our “Saildrive” units install through the hull. These are ideal for larger boats and can be retro-fitted to replace inboard petrol and diesel engines with a saildrive, mounting directly to the existing engine bed. We can even offer a range of steerable electric Saildrives!

Our pod motors are another very flexible alternative to a conventional inboard. They bolt onto the outside of the hull and are cooled directly by the seawater passing over them. Simple and effective. They can be installed anywhere because they don’t require a large, custom designed mounting like a saildrive does. Putting the motor outside frees up a lot of space inside the boat for other uses and allows much more freedom to design layouts which would otherwise be obstructed by the engine. Being underwater makes the motor almost perfectly silent with none of the whining noise associated with some above-water electric motors.

We offer both fixed pods and steerable pods. Fixed pods are ideal to use on sailing boats in conjunction with a normal rudder. They are a simpler and less expensive alternative to a saildrive.