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Chris Kruger

Chris Kruger is an electrical engineer and pioneer of the marine battery industry. He founded AYK Energy in 2018 drawing on multiple roles in both the automotive industry and marine. In the automotive sector he led the team that developed the battery for the Fisker Karma, one of the world’s first production plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that sold mostly in the US. In 2010, even before that car went on sale in 2011-12, he had moved on to be director of engineering at Corvus, where he developed and installed the battery for the first NMC hybrid propulsion ferry, Princess Benedikte, and the first fully electric ferry, Ampere.
In 2023 Chris led AYK’s opening of a 5,000m2 factory in China to ramp up AYK’s production capacity to 300MWH a year with ability to expand to 1GWH. Its opening was seen as a significant moment in the evolution of the marine battery industry and saw speeches from Wärtsilä, Fjord Maritime Norway, Vulkan Group, Green Energies E-Ship and the Maritime Battery Forum.

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AYK Energy: Industry needs to get away from its addiction to fossil fuels, speeding up the adoption of battery

byChris Kruger

March 15, 2024

Chris Kruger, founder of AYK Energy, explains that his company can support the widespread adoption of battery solutions as it is close to the manufacturers of the core technology in China and will use that advantage to bring the new technologies rapidly to the industry.