{"id":74273,"date":"2017-12-08T01:49:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/china-has-launched-worlds-first-electric-zero-emissions-cargo-ship"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:10","slug":"china-has-launched-worlds-first-electric-zero-emissions-cargo-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/china-has-launched-worlds-first-electric-zero-emissions-cargo-ship","title":{"rendered":"China Has Launched World\u2019s First Electric Zero-Emissions Cargo Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-has-launched-worlds-first-electric-zero-emissions-cargo-ship.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China is now the proud owner of the world\u2019s first all-electric cargo ship and has already put the vehicle to use.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/business\/2017-11\/14\/content_34511312.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China Daily<\/a>, the 2,000-metric-ton ship was launched in the city of Guangzhou last month and runs in the inland section of the Pearl River.<\/p>\n<p>Constructed by Guangzhou Shipyard International Company Ltd, it can travel 80 kilometres (approximately 50 miles) after being charged for two hours. As noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2017\/12\/02\/china-launches-worlds-first-electric-cargo-ship-will-use-haul-coal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clean Technica<\/a>, two hours is roughly the amount of time it would take to unload the ship\u2019s cargo while docked.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/world-first-completely-electric-cargo-ship-china\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/world-first-completely-electric-cargo-ship-china<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is now the proud owner of the world\u2019s first all-electric cargo ship and has already put the vehicle to use. As reported by China Daily, the 2,000-metric-ton ship was launched in the city of Guangzhou last month and runs in the inland section of the Pearl River. Constructed by Guangzhou Shipyard International Company Ltd, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74383,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74273\/revisions\/74383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}