Pininfarina pens an electric Zamboni as smooth as ice - Autoblog
Pininfarina pens a Zamboni as smooth as ice. Battery-electric ice resurfacers are a big deal in hockey circles .
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Headshot77
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Makes sense they would be electric. They are only used for about 10 minutes at a time then go into storage. Tbh they should have been electric decades ago.
Bixby Snyder
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It's one of the few applications where switching to electric actually makes sense, much better than running internal combustion engines indoors.
They have existed, I worked at a rink in 2006 that had two electric zambonis. Several other rinks in town had these as well.. Zamboni 552
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jetsmooseice
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These can't be a new thing, there are a bunch of rinks in and near Winnipeg that have electric Olympias. They look like they have a few miles on them too...
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Yukon Joe
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To be fair to the original article, they mention how they themselves talked about electric zambonis back in 2009.
Apparently the "innovation" here is that this is the first zamboni designed by an outside firm, Pininfarina. Pininfarina is probably most well known for helping to design some Ferraris and Alfa Romero cars.
