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Amsterdam, the tour of the canals is climate friendly: 3 on a tourist boat on 4 are electrical

Tourist boats are old, over a century, that have nothing lost of their image of wood and brass, but with a little secret, hidden under the floor, above which th

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Amsterdam, the tour of the canals is climate friendly: 3 on a tourist boat on 4 are electrical
Tourist boats are old, over a century, that have nothing lost of their image of wood and brass, but with a little secret, hidden under the floor, above which the tourists can admire the canals of Amsterdam: a belt under the keel is made of dozens of lithium-ion batteries arranged in a line to power an electric motor.

Boats such as these, the Gerarda Johanna (1922), are becoming the rule, in the tourist scene of the Dutch capital, where now 75 percent of the 550 boats in the tourist and commercial are classified as zero-emissions. As reported in Reuters, the spokesman of the city, Wouter Keunig. The small metropolis that gave birth to Spinoza, and as a Player, therefore, it seems well on its way to achieve the goal that mayor green Femke Halsema has established since its establishment in 2018, no more boats to diesel in the area of root canal historical by 2025, example, and contribution of the community of little over one million, and its not a few tourists, and the struggle for planetary climate change.
Amsterdam. Tourist boats now travel at zero emissions
The park's tourist boats was a strategic sector in the countryside green, the one where the surgery was easy, efficient, and image at the same time. The most popular of the tourist attractions of Amsterdam carries every year, 4 million passengers through the waters of the city, with an average of 320 boats able to navigate up to 14 hours per day.

The Gerarta Johanna has its own place boat with a lot of unit of charging. "People often overestimate what they are able to do in a year, but underestimate what you can do in 10-20 years - explains to the british news agency Kees Koolen, the founder of SuperB, the company that supplied the batteries to the ship's centenary, adding that the solar energy and new forms of storage of the charge could lead to a transport system with zero emissions, much faster than the public can imagine.
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