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by antonkochubey 200 days ago
Those small islands also don’t have any infrastructure to recharge such ships. The small ones often struggle even to serve their own needs.
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Islands. As in Japan, Taiwan, Okinawa, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and for practical purposes, Australia. All of which rely on medium-haul sea traffic.
I would expect that building out electric fueling points throughout Asia will be a big infrastructure investment over the next few years.