Torqeedo  Reviews 

I have had a issue the second season but I talked to the rep. directly and she solved my issues. I am having another issue I pulled into a neighbors dock and when I went to back out I had no power to the motor and the remote throttle showed an E30 code I tried to recalibrate it but still no power and E23 Code appeared along with a E07 Code again tried to recalibrate it and nothing I did hear a slight thunk at the prop and at one point the prop was still but vibrating. Any ideas that I could remedy on my own?

Really poorly designed product. It broke after only 100m of use.

Update re: Torqueedo's response. I tried to contact you several times already and reported the issue to multiple distributors. Not a single person returned my calls, presumably because both your employees and your distributors are also sick of dealing with your terrible products.

Responses like"quality is important to us, please call" amount to thinly-veiled marketing exercises, and are nothing short of offensive to the customer you've already failed

You have my contempt.

The plastic battery plug was damaged when i bought the product. I wasn’t aware it was damaged. And it is actually a design flaw that the competition does not have. (e-propulsion use a metal plug)

6 months of use later this led to corrosion inside of the battery and the warranty team claimed it was my fault because I unknowingly used it when it was broken. The customer service was also rude and terrible.

Therefore i was stuck with a broken £800 battery.

I sold the unit and bought an epropulsion which I recommend instead.

I purchased the 3hp Traveler model in January 2023, and have used it for approx 20 round trips between the dinghy dock and our sailboat. After 5 months, in May 2023, I got an E30 error message and it wouldn’t run. Cleaned the connections (it was removed from the dinghy, rinsed with fresh water, and stored at our home when not in use), and it still didn’t run. I contacted Torqueedo warranty service who instructed me to ship it to FL, which isn’t exactly practical as we’re sailing from St Croix to Grenada. Not impressed with the product or customer service.

Edit Aug 17, 2023 after receiving a response from Torqueedo: I appreciate the response, although the fact it came 3 months after I sent the review is frustrating. During our sail to Grenada, I re-cleaned the connections 3-4 more times, and the engine started working again. Once we got to Grenada and had the boat hauled out for hurricane season, I again washed down everything with fresh water, cleaned the connects 2x with WD40 as recommended, and stored the engine and battery inside the cabin. Hopefully it will still run when we go back this fall the retrieve the boat and sail back to St Croix. If not, I'll take you up on your offer to reach out to customer service.

I know an ocean environment is tough on mechanical and electrical components. Overall, you've designed an incredibly good product. When it works, it's amazing. But the connection design is questionable at best, particularly given how you know customers will use the product. And it was very frustrating to have problems in only a few months, given I cleaned and stored the engine and battery away from the boat when not in use.

Very disappointed. Bought one for my hobie kayak.
Almost always a problem every time I go to use it.
These do not like salt water.
Way too expensive for such poor reliability.

This company is jeopardizing the possibility to develop ELECTRIC ENGINE for a better future. them lack of understanding of a customer service is taking them image so down, that i doubt anyone will jump to E engines in the future and that is a shame in this environemental crisis we are facing.

The customer service is insane towards them customers , they have sent to a team of 5 boats equipped with Torqeedo engines wrong size cables overseas from EU to caribbean.

wrong size parts received all 5 cables were 1 meter lengh as my trequest was about 3 meters lengh. i have been forced to buy a second time the right size cables . they sent a second time the wrong size after being informed about the mistake done.

after few months the torqeedo engines are not able to work well without the powercables so basically the customer is into the impossibility to use them engines for months.

after 5 months i receive from another circuit the right 3 meter size cables so i decide to send back the 1m X10 cables to torqueedo.

first they deny the fact they received the pacakge an now i spend weeks to get payment back without been granted .

this company is following the worst exemple in terms of customer satifaction .

I bought my Travel Torqeedo around 4 years ago. The battery apparently is dangerous. I checked recently because my battery will no longer charge adequately. There was a recall a few months later (July 2019) but I was never advised. I wrote and followed instructions for the recall, I phoned twice their customer service and left a message and in addition, I wrote a letter: all of this without any acknowledgment whatsoever. Not a bad motor when it works but getting service is a real headache.

I have been a proponent of Torqeedo from the beginning. I bought my first in 2008 despite comments from fellow boaters that it's not worth the price; that connections brake easily and cannot be repaired; that batteries die even if you don't use them and are expensive to replace (making the cost per mile inefficient); or that there are software glitches in the middle of operation. I thought it's an interesting project that was worth my support.
6 months ago I contacted Torqeedo customer service for an incompatibility issue (battery and throttle). It took about a month of email exchanges to convince them there is a glitch. I went to their local dealer who confirmed it. Then they promised a solution and kept my throttle for a month. It came back untouched. The problem persisted. After that, complete silence. Stopped responding to emails. Their local dealer suggested I should be persistent, and I was. Different agents responded asking me the same questions all over again. Again they promised a solution, and then again, silence.
I feel offended.
Not an explanation or anything. Just stonewalling.
I will now go to the competition. Luckily there are other electric boat motors in the market now, with better reviews and, most importantly, CUSTOMER SUPPORT that doesn't suck.

ADDING THIS PART AFTER TORQEEDO's RESPONSE BELOW.
Dear Torqeedo,
I am really glad to see you reacted even several months later (here below).
Let's see if you are really committed to improving your Customer Support Service or if you just continue using empty words in the hope of balancing the narrative.
Here is my proposition to you:
The issue has not been resolved because nobody bothered to communicate with me. Feel free to contact me with a solution, and I will immediately change my review.
If this review still remains unchanged, people reading it will know that Torqeedo's promises are just empty.
Let's see...
P.S.
I forwarded this communication to customer service

The worst possible experience you can imagine.

Brand new 1103 outboard lasted a total of 100 meters before showing error code E30 and failing to work again.

Several calls & emails to multiple torqeedo service centers resulted in nothing (everyone promised to get back, but never did).

I deeply regret spending so much on a bad product from a crappy company.

Screw you torqeedo, your product is bad and you should feel bad.

Bought a Torqeedo Cruise 6.0 and checked the printed instructions carefully during assembly. Tested it for 15 minutes and noticed that the propeller had cut into the engine pod, shafing it, about 2mm peeled off. Checked the online instructions the following day and they had been quietly ‘fixed’ with the proper assembly order (a spacer was missing before the propeller in the bad ones). Contacted Torqeedo directly and asked my reseller to do the same, neither one of us have heard one beep from them now for over two weeks. Decent product but a big warning about their service level, seems you’re on your own even if they mess up, which brings down the value of their proposition considerably.

I bought a torqueedo 1103 2 years ago and although the motor is good the batteries are rubbish. I bought 2 batteries and 1 just comes up with error E46 displayed .
This has been one of the biggest boating errors I have ever made . My advise to anyone is do not buy a Torqueedo Outboard as it is expensive and the batteries are £800.00 each. The warranty is non existant . I could have bought 3 engine outboards for this junk .

Well I'm afraid the customer after sales service does not even warrant a single star. It is now almost 2 months since I reported that the battery has switched itself off. I have now removed equipment from the boat and returned them to the service agent and still no-one is taking charge of solving the problem.

Bad corrosion - avoid this product - not fit for the marine environment.

Very, very, very poor service and very poor corrosion on the body of the Torqeedo body. I was really impressed with the product to begin with, however, just before the engine's warranty expired it started to show very bad corrosion on the body. This continued over time to worsen. While I am extremely disappointed by the corrosion - I am just appalled by the reaction from Torqeedo. You email them, and they don't reply. You email again to chase, and you finally get a reply. This goes on for months. Eventually they just bury their head in the sand and ignore you as a customer.

I will NOT buy another Torqeedo. I could have bought 3 petrol engines for the same price as the Torqeedo - and just thrown one away each year - and would have been better off !!!

Simply rude.