The hydrofoil design is finding favour with electric boat builders (see BMW and Tyde’s recent one-off, The Icon), thanks to the low drag resistance of the foils that lift the craft out of the water at ...

Young electric water taxi service E-lixr is pivoting its previous business strategy to become the US’s first operator of all-electric vessels. It now seeks to support new and existing marine ...

but that foiling electric ships and boats are so much cheaper to operate than fossil-fueled vessels,” said Gustav Hasselskog, CEO and founder of Candela. The Stockholm-based tech company has developed ...

Fly Tahoe and Sweden-based Candela are working to build this type of electric vessel in the U.S., which would get a boost ...

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The first electric hydrofoil ferry in the United States is ... energy consumption by 80 per cent compared to conventional boats because there is less water friction. "This ferry holds 30 people ...

P-12 is an all-electric hydrofoil ferry from Candela in Sweden ... one at the front and another at the back. Overall, the boat is 12m long, 4.5m wide, weighs 10 tonnes, and has an active system to ...

considerably faster than other electric passenger ferries. It achieves this with carbon fiber hydrofoil wings that lift the boat out of the water, reducing drag. An added benefit is that the ...

Gustav Hasselskog, chief executive of the electric boat manufacturer Candela, called it "a paradigm shift for urban transport and a revival of our waterways.” He said the Nova was the first of Candela ...