Evinrude (outboard motor)
Under the brand name Evinrude , outboard motors were mainly produced in the USA under changing company names and sold worldwide.
The name comes from the first founder, Ole Evinrude (1877-1934), an engineer and inventor born in Norway.
Company history
In 1907 Ole Evinrude developed his first outboard motor and founded the company Evinrude Motor Co. Four years later he sold 50 percent of his company shares to the president of Meyer Tug Boat Lines, Chris Meyer. The company was then in Co. Evinrude Detachable Row Boat Motor renamed. In 1914, Chris Meyer acquired the remaining shares in Evinrude.
In 1928 the American automotive supplier Briggs & Stratton bought Evinrude. At the time, Evinrude's production numbers were way behind its direct competitor Johnson . Just one year later, the three companies Evinrude Motor Company , Lockwood Motor Company and ELTO Outboard Motor Company, founded by Ole Evinrude in 1921 , merged to form the Outboard Motors Corporation , or OMC for short. The outboard motors produced, however, were still sold under the three well-known brand names.
In 1934, product designer Brooks Stevens first designed an outboard motor for Evinrude. Stevens worked for Evinrude until the 1960s and many of the products he developed during this period were his. In 1936, OMC took over competitor Johnson . The structurally identical outboard motors continued to be sold under the names "Evinrude" and "Johnson".
OMC expanded continuously over the next fifty years and in 1982 was the world's largest manufacturer of outboard motors. In 1988 the company began developing a direct-injected 2-stroke engine with orbital licenses. In 1993, OMC acquired the licenses for the German direct injection system Ficht FFI and 51 percent of the company shares in Ficht GmbH. Two years later, the company produced a V6 two-stroke engine with the FFI injection system. The 110 kW (150 hp) engine had a 30 percent lower fuel consumption and 80 percent lower emissions than a comparable conventional engine.
In 2000, OMC filed for bankruptcy and one year later was taken over by the Canadian group of companies Bombardier Inc. Bombardier also secured the rights to the FFI direct injection system. In 2003, the division was spun off into Bombardier Recreational Products . The outboard motors have since continued to be marketed under the Evinrude name . The engine range was further expanded and in 2006 comprised around 15 models. The engine outputs ranged from 29 kW (40 hp) to 184 kW (250 hp), depending on the model.
Evinrude engines have been compliant with the 2006EPA and 2008CARB Three star ultra low emission standards since 2007 and are therefore approved for use on Lake Constance.
At the beginning of June 2020 it was announced that the Evinrude brand would be discontinued and the production of Evinrude marine engines would be discontinued.
developments
From the 1950s to the 1960s, Evinrude developed some notable boats and outboard motors designed by Brooks Stevens.
- 1956 Lark Runabout sports boat with two bucket seats, two panorama windows, "tail fins" made of stainless steel with position lights and two retractable ropes for water skiing,
- 1957 First round fiberglass boat "Fisherman" with two 15-bhp outboard motors, displays for determining the depth, radar and a circular arrangement of the seats for fishing,
- 1958 Evinrude boat for six people and a cockpit that can be opened for fishing,
- 1959 Evinrude "Show Boat", a scaled-down replica of a Mississippi - paddle steamer ,
- 1960 Airworthy prototype "Helibout" with 75 bhp Evinrude outboard motor and helicopter drive,
- 1961 Catamaran "Housefloat" in modular design with 1–2 cabins and 2–3 booms,
- 1962 Airworthy prototype "Jetstream" with 75 bhp Evinrude outboard motor and helicopter drive,
- 1964 Evinrude "Lakester",
- 1964 Evinrude speedboat with rotary engine,
- 1965 "Ballon-Abou" hot air balloon suitable for water with a 7.5 bhp outboard motor.
Engines
Evinrude always built two-stroke engines . According to the rules of the European "Recreational Boat Directive" and in the USA the "EPA", new boat engines must a. comply with certain exhaust gas limit values. This is not possible with 2-stroke engines with conventional carburetor technology. Evinrude uses the direct injection system from the German company Provenion (Ficht company up to 2000) to keep these limit values below these limits. Since its market launch in 1995, the system has been consistently developed and is now the market leader under the name "E-TEC", both in terms of number of units and in terms of emission reduction. All current Evinrude engines are two-stroke with "E-TEC" direct injection.
Engine program 2015
- 2-cylinder in-line engines with 19/22/30/37/45 kW (25/30/40/50/60 PS)
- 3-cylinder in-line engines with 56/67 kW (75/90 PS)
- 4-cylinder V-engines (60 °) with 86/96 kW (115/130 PS)
- 6-cylinder V-engines (60 °) with 110/129/147/165/184/221 kW (150/175/200/225/250/300 PS)
- 6-cylinder V-engines (90 °) with 66/85/147/165/184 kW (90/115/200/225/250 PS)
- E-TEC G2 - 6-cylinder V-engines (74 °) with 147/165/184/221 kW (200/225/250/300 PS)
literature
- Jeffrey L. Rodengen: Evinrude, Johnson And The Legend Of OMC . Write Stuff Syndicate Inc., Ft. Lauderdale 1992, ISBN 0-945903-10-3
- Kevin Desmond: The Guinness book of motorboating facts and feats . Guinness Superlatives Ltd., Enfield 1979, ISBN 0-900424-86-9
- Rainer Bergmann: The man who didn't want to row . In: Boats . 1/09, pages 18-28
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Gerhard in Float-Magazin: End for Evinrude after 113 years ; accessed on June 2, 2020
- ↑ Fiberglassics - Website: Evinrude. (No longer available online.) At: www.fiberglassics.com , formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 15, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Directive 94/25 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the legal and administrative regulations of the member states relating to pleasure craft
- ↑ United States Environmental Protection Agency
