Geir Bjorkeli, chief executive of Canadian-Norwegian marine battery specialist Corvus Energy, believes the electrification of shipping depends on the much larger automobile industry for efficiency and scale.
Bjorkeli holds out hopes for Norwegian battery cell manufacturing start-up Freyr to cut the cost and carbon footprint of marine batteries, using northern Norwegian hydropower.
He also remains optimistic for big boxships as a market, even after AP Moller-Maersk turned lukewarm.
