After 10 years of research, design, and development, Flux marine is entering the electric outboard market. With a claimed $30 million invested and the opening of a manufacturing facility in Bristol, Rhode Island, we finally got a chance to try out their FM115 behind a Highfield 660. Rated at a maximum of 175 horsepower, we hit an impressive—and almost dead-quiet—25 knots (with three people aboard) in Newport Harbor.
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Senior Editor, Power & Motoryacht
Senior Editor Owen Burke grew up on, in, and around Long Island Sound, where he worked on fishing boats and spent any free time he had aboard his Stur-Dee Dory. He has sought fish, waves and stories around the world and done several stints along the way in Taiwan, Fiji and New Zealand, among other places. He currently resides in New York City, fleeing at every chance he gets.
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