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    INNOVATIONS

    Jul 06, 2022 7 minutes

    15 years

    The length of time the Atari 2600 console remained in production due to its popularity

    32.9 million

    The number of Nintendo N64 consoles sold over its lifetime (the Game Boy sold 118.7 million)

    PREVIEW

    This electric-hybrid boat changes marine tourism as we know it

    Daniel Bennett hops aboard the maiden voyage of a first-of-its-kind ship that’s hoping to lead the conversation on sustainable tourism

    At the top of the world a quiet revolution is taking place. In Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago a little over 1,000km away from the North Pole, a marine engineering company, a boat builder and a tour operator are piloting a scheme that they hope will convince the world – or at least a few more customers – that commercial boats, don’t need to be powered by smelly, sputtering diesels. Instead, they could use something altogether more modern: a hybrid-electric drivetrain.

    The scheme works as follows: marine engineering company Volvo Penta has built a state-of-the-art, hybrid-electric drivetrain that’s fitted to a boat built by Marell. This package is then sold to a tour operator called Hurtigruten, who run Norway’s

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