We Pushed the ePropulsion Spirit 1.0 Evo to Its Absolute Limit — Here's What Happened
Run the Spirit 1.0 Evo flat out at its full 1kW output and you get roughly 1 hour 15 minutes of runtime and about 7.8 miles (12.5km) of range on the standard Spirit Battery Plus. That's the ceiling — the number every other setting on this motor gets measured against. What's actually interesting isn't that number on its own, though. It's what happens to runtime and range the moment you back off even slightly, and why "full throttle" is rarely where you should be running anyway. Why This Matters Every electric outboard has a number nobody advertises loudly: what happens at the very top of the throttle. Manufacturers love to talk about their best-case cruising range, but the full-power number tells you something more useful — how the motor behaves under real stress, and how much margin you actually have before the battery taps out. We wanted to know what "the limit" really looks like on the ePropulsion Spirit Evo , using the numbers ePropulsion itself ...