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e5 Lab Inc. and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding provide design for standard hybrid electric propulsion vessel, ‘ROBOSHIP’
Tokyo-based firm, e5 Lab Inc. and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, have agreed to provide the design for ‘ROBOSHIP’, a standard hybrid electric propulsion vessel that the two companies are seeking to promote as a vision for the future of ships, for a 499-tonne biomass fuel carrier, which is being built by Honda Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. The widespread adoption of the futuristic ROBOSHIP has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions i...