Comperable electric outboard to a Mercury 9.9

[theBigKahuna]

I know this is heresy to my 4 stroke brethren, but my luck maintaining an outboard so it runs reliably is, for lack of a better word, '*****'. Additionally, my wife doesn't have the same upper body strength to reliably start the engine.

Have any electric outboards matured to a point where they have similar power and some degree of range? We're heading to FtL to have a solar arch installed so, power options are better.

Cheers,
jBrad
sv Fuzzy Logic.

[ranger58sb]

Elco has electric outboards with higher horsepower like that. Battery capacity, weight, and cost are issues.

Gas outboards with electric start are often easy enough to fire up.

-Chris