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We've seen various solar powered water vessels like the Auriga Leader ship, the Loon boat and PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar catamaran. But today, its a battery powered plug-in ship that is making waves in the green world of water transport. IHI Marine United, a subsidiary of heavy machinery maker IHI Corp, Japan is developing a plug-in ship powered by lithium-ion batteries.

"Despite jaw-dropping costs and immense technical difficulties, business leaders [in Kure, Hiroshima prefecture] plan to salvage parts from the sunken World War II imperial battleship Yamato."