Brunswick Building Electric Outboards, Self-Driving Boats
At its annual Investors’ Day conference, Brunswick Corp., the boating industry giant, just announced that it will launch new electric outboard engines starting next year, and that it will produce its first Driver Assistance System, leading to autonomous boats, later this year. Chris Drees, the president of Mercury Marine, said the company is already developing electric outboards, and will have the first ready by the end of 2022 and four more by the first quarter of 2023. “We intend for Mercury to be the market leader in both conventional and electric marine propulsion by the end of that year,” he…