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Shaping design around battery integration
16th Jun 2026
The world's first fully electric battery car ferry, the MF Ampere (image: Corvus Energy).
From early pilot projects to gigawatt-scale ambition, battery technology is rapidly redefining the boundaries of ferry and fast craft design.
For long-time collaborators Corvus Energy and Fjellstrand Shipyard, advances in energy density, system integration and vessel architecture are not only enabling larger, fully electric vessels, but also accelerating a fundamental shift toward battery-centric design, where performance, efficiency and future scalability are engineered from the outset rather than