One of the beefs against electric outboards is their limited range, but Newport—an electric outboard builder from Stockton, California—is challenging that perception with its lightweight lithium batteries.
We clamped a Newport NT300 3-hp electric outboard with a standard-length shaft to the stern of an 11-foot, 7-inch fiberglass rowboat, added one of Newport’s LiFePO4 (lithium, iron and phosphate) batteries and loaded the boat up with more than 400 pounds of people to see what it could do.
