{"id":354060,"date":"2026-05-19T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/australia-starts-building-its-own-electric-ferries\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:01:02","slug":"australia-starts-building-its-own-electric-ferries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/australia-starts-building-its-own-electric-ferries\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia starts building its own electric ferries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/australia-starts-building-its-own-electric-ferries.jpg' alt='electrive'><br \/>Brisbane-based shipbuilder Aus Ships Group is building an electric ferry in collaboration with Swedish marine and industrial engine manufacturer Volvo Penta, which is due to be commissioned by the end of the year. Further down Australia&#8217;s east coast, the New South Wales government has given,  another Australian shipbuilder the green light to begin building a trial  24-metre battery electric ferry later this year.  <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/05\/19\/australia-starts-building-its-own-electric-ferries\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane-based shipbuilder Aus Ships Group is building an electric ferry in collaboration with Swedish marine and industrial engine manufacturer Volvo Penta, which is due to be commissioned by the end of the year. Further down Australia&#8217;s east coast, the New South Wales government has given, another Australian shipbuilder the green light&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/australia-starts-building-its-own-electric-ferries\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":354061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}