This Candela Electric Boat FLIES!

[@kevatut23]

I spent fifty years in high tech product development. From consumer electronics, to marine equipment and NASA management. This boat, although not introducing anything particulary new, is the perfect integration of complimentary tech. Wonderful. Foils, electric drive, it was a marriage that had to wait for the right time. And that time is now. Kudos.

[@josephkolodziejski6882]

I do have one small criticism. In applications where one needs greater range, this system, although it makes it easier to adopt batteries, doesn't fundamentally support batteries as the prime power unit. It would be more cost effective at low intensity to install an equivalent power diesel generator with Rolls-Royce style baffling. That said, it is still fantastic engineering and it does at least lower the performance envelope for batteries to be installed at more reasonable weights and volumes.

[@DrewHaughton]

@@josephkolodziejski6882 They could easily go to cat version and have more power/range. As battery efficiency rises this will be more feasible.

[@ianclay5035]

When the presenter is a former car engineer, and they get just as excited about a boat, you know you're onto something. Cracking project with real potential, I wish the team at Candela much success.

[@g0fum]

As someone who works on small boats this is amazing. I'd happily have these instead of the dirty diesel boats I work on.

[@PhilthyMr]

But what if you hit a sandbar. It’s gonna launch 🚀 everyone weeeeeee 🏃‍♂️

[@makoado6010]

there is "winged shipes" in hunagry in duna river about 70years ago. just google :"szárnyashajó"

[@Grant.G.Simpson]

the future always seems so exciting after watching a fully charged episode

[@JasonCarmichael]

My favorite part about this is when she is out on the open water, driving/flying this boat, and just talking at normal voice levels.

[@rlaxton666]

Absolutely, a normal power boat at those speeds makes conversation a very shouty affair. The other thing was that her hair was almost still. The windscreen design on that boat is super clean to have so little turbulence at the control position.

[@JasonCarmichael]

@@rlaxton666 Totally forgot about the lack of wind noise. Absolutely right about the cockpit design and the air bubble the captain enjoys.

[@rlaxton666]

@@JasonCarmichael Very much a benefit of a long haired presenter. Other than microphone noise, some buzz cut guy would never have given us this much information so quickly.

[@princecharmingthemerman]

And the design also allows for a smoother ride. Win, win, win, win all around

[@hunyango2k]

sooooo, you can only use this on a slack water... just an observation...

[@japzone]

Imagine the flex of driving one of these through a "No Wake Zone". 😆

[@rlaxton666]

Makes you wonder what the minimum spec is for getting up on the foils since the wake is definitely going to be less at that speed than just dribbling along at 5 knots in "boat mode", which is a common speed limit in wake limited areas.

[@Dudleymiddleton]

Great how it slips through the water barely creating a wake - that slimline electric motor is a great design!

[@DrewHaughton]

Imagine a cat with twin SLs...or even a trimaran.

[@jonathantaylor1998]

What an amazing piece of technology... Those aerial shots, comparing the wake generated by the regular powerboat versus the Candela, were an incredibly powerful demonstration of just why hydrofoil technology is going to be such a game-changer for marine ecosystems. Brilliant work Fully Charged. 😎

[@roguebullet4220]

Awesome work from Candela. This episode really floats my boat.

[@simonyapp]

What an amazing product! and fantastic presenter, drone shots, edit and audio mix. nice job team.

[@johnnyonline]

It was completely quiet! Stunning bit of kit.

[@byGDur]

Super cool! Candela is doing it right. Showing they can build it and showing their future vision even with high quality visualisations 👌

[@BatteredWalrus]

Ah good ol' Hydrofoils, great bit of technology

[@lukedogwalker]

As a stick and rag sailor, I love it when other people bomb around in hydrofoil boats... no wake! They can do 30 knots right past you and if you didn't look, you wouldn't have known. They also don't damage the river banks, upset or drown juvenile water fowl, imperil moorings and moored boats, or damage mariners. Compare that to certain boghammer owners who seem to delight in "making their presence felt" and come racing by and leave you bouncing hard enough to make the ancient mariner puke. So, let's have more hydrofoils! This could be an example of using technology to design out the opportunity for certain sociopaths to behave badly in public, whether they like it or not. *I know boghammer isn't the term. I call the particular speed boat drivers who behave like idiots 'boghammer drivers' because of the association with the antics of the Iranian Republican Guard, cross-channel people-traffickers, drug smugglers and similar low life who work to make other people miserable.

[@xc43t]

Owners that delight in making their presence known... this sounds like an equivalent of a truck owners with engines adjusted to blow black smoke

[@PhilthyMr]

Imagine the fuel & pollution that will be saved by hydro & E boats. My interest is piqued

[@MelioraCogito]

@@xc43t _"Owners that delight in making their presence known... this sounds like an equivalent of a truck owners with engines adjusted to blow black smoke"_ Yep... they're all trying to overcompensate for their (less obvious) physical deficiencies.

[@chadlymath]

The Iranian Republican Guard?... What a' boghammer...

[@Alessandro---]

Comment of the week!! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@emilyaseverance]

I love they're working on ferries next. I can hardly wait until there's a Fleet of them in San Francisco.

[@terrythomas1690]

The BEST presenter on full charged ever so well spoken and well presented.

[@JoeOvercoat]

4:58 I dig the way she takes the time to be careful about what she’s going to say, right there especially.

[@dalee442]

I knew about this boat already, but it’s so amazing that this works. It looks somewhere between flying and floating.

[@herrknopf2685]

Amazing! What a wonderful idea! Bring it on sooner, sooner, sooner! I’ve got to get back to Stockholm!

[@StarBoundFables]

OhMyGoodness, these look amazing! I'd love to see boats like these transporting passengers around the islands off the coast of Vancouver, BC 😃🙏🏼🛥 Way-to-go, Candela!

[@JustFlyIt09]

So much awesome to unpack here! Amazing. I love watching the two boats run into the waves and the Candela just moves smoothly along while the other boat takes some really big hits.

[@ProductDesignKF]

she's a delight, let's have her more often!!

[@ProductDesignKF]

@@mr.majestic8713 oh please you always find something when it's a woman

[@aayotechnology]

Yes please replace Jack with her. But sans unflattering wide leg jeans

[@JoeOvercoat]

@@aayotechnology yes but no, the jeans are hawt.

[@GEMINDIGO]

Sounds great in many respects.I love the fact that it is quiet and thus does not negatively affect marine life.However relying on a computer to make hundreds of adjustments per second sounds mathematically (and digitally) difficult.What happens if your computer gets a glitch?What's it like on really choppy water?

[@MissGoElectric]

Incredible coverage. Nobody does it better.

[@snoopaka]

Another great job by Imogen! Great story of yet another promising green technology. Looks like you had a blast.

[@rollingstocks]

The fact that you can hear her speak that clearly while the boat is going that fast is quite remarkable.

[@AmongUs-mb4qx]

Noise cancellation is amazing!

[@rollingstocks]

@@AmongUs-mb4qx Sure, but even with such an effect applied, one can still perceive that this boat is really quiet.

[@danielrochat5968]

This is exactly what I am looking for, but unfortunately I can’t afford it. I hope in 10 years prices will dropped by three. What a beautiful boat.

[@SolarVibeEnergy]

Same lovely way to spend retirement !

[@davidwicks7898]

Great episode, really excited about electric boats and ships. Great presenting by Imogen.

[@reinhodl7377]

This is one of the best videos on this channel.

[@AlvarLagerlof]

I was waiting for this feature! Great work explaining how it works too,

[@Amuzic]

I am Highly impressed by that motor design.

[@nr5494]

A lovely, natural presentation by Imogen, and a superb product. I’m hoping to buy one soon.

[@tonys2957]

Fabulous tech! Any idea how robust the foils are? If you were to hit a float (crab pot, net, log) ... What happens? In conventional outboard you may need to refurb a prop ... The hull may have a scrape or ding. How would one of the foils fare?

[@rsaunders57]

In the 1970s-80s, Boeing made the 929 Jetfoil ferry boat. It carries 200-300 people and runs at 45 knots. They sold 50-ish vessels, I rode on one in Seattle way back when. People always asked about hitting stuff, with all the trees that make it into those waters, but they never developed a sonar that would detect that sort of thing. The boat required a deep channel, so it could stop in an emergency. Several sharp maneuvers made the news, mostly for spilling drinks, but they claim there never had a vessel disabled by debris. You can't operate something like this with plants in the water, from a fouling and drag risk, and hitting a sandbar might be catastrophic. You'll want to keep to deep water, like Swedish Fjords.

[@nntflow7058]

This technology have been used on larger ferries around the world for decades. Hong Kong ferry would probably comes to mind.

[@ehombane]

@@nntflow7058 We had few on Danube too. Russians also I think they still have. And I remember an japanese one recently hitting a whale.

[@davidf2281]

@@rsaunders57 _"You can't operate something like this with plants in the water, from a fouling and drag risk, and hitting a sandbar might be catastrophic."_ The same limits apply to a conventional powerboat.

[@rsaunders57]

@@davidf2281 Well, a conventional powerboat has less draft, and a V hull is much better at pushing things out of the way. The wake of a boat has functional effects, not just the negative drag effect.

[@MasterIvo]

Very cool to see the use of technology this way, with counter rotating propulsion. Just beautiful!

[@TWOKDOK1]

There are several torpedoes which have this contra -rotating drive.

[@greyareaRK1]

Love the idea of hydrofoils. We (Canada) developed a sub-hunter hydrofoil in 1968 that could do 63 knots. Cancelled due to 'priority changes,' which usually means US interference. A twin hull design seems like a natural progression. My concern would be fishing nets, which make up a surprisingly large percentage of plastic waste in the ocean. Any plans to make the foils retractable?

[@davidf2281]

They are fully retractable already -- you can look up the Motor Boat & Yachting video on it from about a month or so ago which explains the retraction.

[@JoeOvercoat]

The US interfering is like Capt Kirk violating The Prime Directive…often, and often maladroitly! That said, hydrofoils make a great anti-surface attack craft but hunter-killer helicopters and attack submarines really are the best way to kill attack submarines, so it was a fair cop.

[@pinkelephants1421]

Imagine a Candella ferry on the Thames or maybe some of the larger more northerly UK rivers.

[@tommyfred6180]

love the boat but hydrofoils are not allowed on the Thames above the ferry. the engine is something i can see lots of british waterways clearing for use. if they could do one suitable for narrowboats they would go like hot cakes. the taxi engine thumping away is the only thing that spoils a trip on a narrowboat.

[@pinkelephants1421]

@@tommyfred6180 Why aren't hydrofoils allowed (above the ferry) - didn't understand that last bit? I'd considered narrowboat usage but dismissed it on the grounds of very low speed restrictions on UK canals; (might) be useful on EV surfboards in a canal situation and these are already on the market - see Electrek & Fully Charged Show's KZbin channel videos.

[@tommyfred6180]

​@@pinkelephants1421 the Thames has different restrictions on everything from speed to prop type. it split up into different sections. above the ferry refers to the Woolwich ferry crossing. its one of the points the rules change. as i understand it and i could be way off. hydrofoils are not allowed beyond this point. as for the narrowboat i think a low speed prop set up for the motor shown could work well.

[@gz3zbz]

@@tommyfred6180 There are already companies building electric or hybrid narrowboats, and you are correct, the silence is golden. Look up Ortomarine, Hybrid Marine and Mothership Marine for some examples, I'm sure there are more.

[@tommyfred6180]

@@gz3zbz yep i know. but i didn't know about mothership marine. i'm going to give them a look. thanks. the problem with the ones i do know and i could be way out of date on this. is they are all working off the idea of just replacing the engine with an electric unit. you still have the prop drive system and so on. this unit setup would be way better. you could even set it up so you got directional thrust.

[@LZentertainments]

I think I finally understand why not more electrification has happened in this space, outside of cultural/attitude. It's difficult. These guys kind of seem like the Tesla of boat. I hope this kicks off development of much bigger industrial electric boats and eventually cruise and cargo ships.

[@georgecostanza2695]

I was waiting for you guys to feature the Candela!

[@argalib]

Hey, you have forgotten The iconic introduction. It should be "That is flying boat, and, this is fully charged show" 🎊

[@Thatsme849]

Great video all around! great product, great presenter. Looking forward to more!

[@TheLobstersoup]

Another immediate benefit is that you don't have to shout at the top of your lungs when going top speed. I also like the ferry a lot. Cool company!

[@FabriSlv]

What I find coolest about these hydrofoil boats is that... This simply isn't possible with petrol engines! ICE hydrofoil boats exist, obviously, but they are a lot more complex and expensive, because they need to keep the engine above the water while the foil operates a metre or more below. On the contrary, electric motors don't need air, so they can be put underwater, making them a lot smaller (the water itself is the cooling system), cheaper and more efficient. And you also get the added benefit of less noise and more stability. They truly show how electrification can be the answer to the questions we never dared to ask

[@cyberista]

Superb combination of innovative engineering and product design. I was wondering about the pressure differential - to create the lift - spoken of only in terms of the angle of attack (effectively) . After getting up to speed, for minimal drag I think you'd want zero angle-of-attack and reliance on an aerofoil profile to generate the needed pressure difference. The 'wing' profiles certainly appeared to be aerofoil shaped.

[@mikemellor759]

Another fascinating insight into the future - great presentation - thanks 🙏 😊

[@knowledgebyte]

Great concept. It will be interesting to see how it handles rougher conditions and a log strike.

[@ryanzacsanders]

great seeing you covering this!

[@leifhietala8074]

A retractable rigid cockpit tonneau, that covered the entire seating area while the boat is waiting in its slip for the next outing, could be cheap, relatively low-efficiency solar panels that, low efficiency notwithstanding, would charge the batteries up over the multiple days between outings. Not many people use their boat every day; when you're running with only a couple of people aboard keeping the tonneau mostly deployed would probably also make a significant improvement on the vessel's aero drag (which cannot be ignored when talking about cruising speed and range) and further improve its performance.

[@rallisf1]

There are plenty of extras for such boats: seats, couches, tables, covers etc. I'm sure Candela will provide most of them.

[@635574]

That would be great accessory

[@K1989L]

Excellent review! Very interesting and cool project! Well done!

[@atomicsmith]

Wow, that ferry looks amazing. This looks like a great company.

[@davidkendall2272]

Wonderful episode and topic. Thanks for sharing!

[@felixbrand7971]

How well does the thing handle/turn compared to a conventional hull?

[@tomich20]

Great tech. Would love to see how it performs in really choppy waters 🌊🌊

[@JoeOvercoat]

I’d be keen to see what happens when a wave does slap the flying hull.

[@54mgtf22]

Wonderful Love your work, Imogen 👍

[@jvdb5509]

I'm impressed and optimistic to what this will bring forward!

[@williamlawrenson8345]

Whether you travel through air or water, power requirements are proportional to speed, a single horse can pull a car or boat. In fact it is probably easier to pull a canal barge than a truck. People are starting to produce electric canal boats and I believe that will accelerate when more marinas electrify berths and the EA put more charging points on the canal banks.

[@ehombane]

yep, I watched only as minute and got shocked by the statement that pushing through water takes more energy than pushing through air. This is obvious, but except military and smugglers and few scientists nobody uses submarines. Boats, even are pushing a little through water, still are going mostly through air, and are actually more efficient than planes. Sure, hidrofoils are more efficient. We had few passenger ones decades ago. I wonder why their use was discontinued.

[@davidf2281]

@@ehombane The vast majority of the energy it takes to move a boat is pushing the water out of the way, not the air.

[@ehombane]

@@davidf2281 If you read again my comment you will see that I have said that this is obvious. So, I have no idea why you are repeating the obvious.

[@buzzofftoxicblog791]

Amazing technology 👏 been thinking about hydrofoil for 30 years .... finally thank you Fully Charged 🙏

[@pauladams1829]

Love to see one powering though Venice.

[@eaaeeeea]

The team seems extremely compenent by coming up with a product like this. It's amazing: a small group of intelligent people come together and boom, an amazing electric boat emerges from seemingly out of thin air. >100 boats in 8 months at EUR 290,000 ex. VAT is over EUR 29 million in revenue! They selected their market so well with a very compelling product.

[@SimonHollandfilms]

nice film nice boat

[@garydmercer]

Great idea. I still think sail boats are a great for leisure travel.

[@Furyswe1]

Product-place this in the next James Bond, or John Wick movies!

[@AmerBoyo]

Love it. A couple of questions spring to mind though; one, are these only fair weather craft? Not sure these would cope with rough seas so well? Just a hunch, two, when are they releasing an integrated solar version?! Make a whole lot of sense to me if pleasure craft are rarely used!

[@patrickjr11]

Boats have a legal rating A,B,C,D with both distance away from the shore and number of passengers defined at build stage. A being cross Atlantic, B being cross channel, C inshore and D being river or lake. Then the number of passengers depends on the size and once you go beyond 24m or 79 feet, then build structure and number of crew can change. I would suspect that this boat is a C or perhaps a B. But range is then an issue so more likely a C rating.

[@RandomGuyRandomNumber]

​@@patrickjr11 Hydrofoils are not covered by the RCD Rating System. Vessels over 24m LWL are not covered by the RCD. The actual ratings A to D are descriptive sentences, not titles, as they were considered misleading. Even so, the ratings were previously A - Ocean; B - Offshore; C - Coastal; D - Sheltered, and were never as you suggest. The ratings are predicated on weather conditions and expected wave height, not distance from shore or crewmembers (the number of people aboard can alter a vessel's RCD rating because of stability differences but nothing is "defined at build stage". For example, the same boat may be dual rated as D with 5 passengers, and C with 3 on board). Range is not mentioned in the RCD ratings. The RCD ratings are not so much "legal ratings" as guidelines to consumers. Once a vessel is sold or imported, the ratings are pretty much irrelevant and a boat can be used in whatever way the owner desires, no matter how misguided. Given that the expected wave height for a C rating exceeds the ride height of this vessel, such a rating would be impossible even if a hydrofoil could be subjected to the same stability criteria, and there wasn't a failsafe built into the software that shut down the electric motor once the waves became too much for the system to work reliably. Please be more careful when spreading information on the internet.

[@patrickjr11]

@@RandomGuyRandomNumber I did provide a link that gave more details for anyone interested in the details but my answer was aimed at vast majority of the audience who are not into boats. I think it is a reasonable way of describing the differences. But in any case. Foils are not included, although given they are going to be on more and more boats going forward, perhaps they will impact the rules in future. The boat is still the boat in the end. The foils just improve efficiency.

[@RandomGuyRandomNumber]

@@patrickjr11 There is no link in your comment. Everything you said is demonstrably false no matter at whom your comments were aimed. The titles of the ratings were even changed by the RCD / EU BECAUSE they were misleading (but you did not even use the correct OLD titles - you just plain made up your own !) and the entire ethos of the RCD is to provide information to people who are not familiar with boats - nobody with any sailing experience gives a toss about the ratings unless they have to comply as a seller or manufacturer. You even guessed at a rating that could never exist for a boat to which the regulations do not apply based on a measure that is not even mentioned in the compliance regulations, let alone the ratings criteria. Please educate yourself before spouting off on a subject you obviously know nothing about, and when your errors are pointed out, accept correction with some grace instead of doubling down and lying.

[@jimj2683]

Solar actually makes a lot of sense since most people only go boating on the weekends. That would leave enough time to recharge with solar during the week.

[@philippe-lebel]

I'll be glad seeing all this products in next future. It's looking supercool. I can't wait.

[@sharpbends]

How do these go with obstacle collision, eg log in the water ?

[@MLampner]

A question how fast does the boat have to travel to gain lift?

[@OtakuByNight]

I really hope the foils can retract and perhaps even adjust depth as needed for trailering and for shallow areas or areas with lots of debris.

[@evornotev7794]

yes the foils can retract into the hull. Shame Imogen didn't show this. Also how strong are the foils if you hit an object on or under the water surface?

[@waveman1500]

Would this be trailered regularly? It seems like the kind of thing which would have a marina berth.

[@evornotev7794]

@@waveman1500 It's 28 foot - nearly 9 metres - so probably not. most marina berths have a power supply so shouldn't be an issue for charging.

[@jimj2683]

@@evornotev7794 They are meant to break off if you hit something very hard. That is much safer than suddenly coming to a stop.

[@OtakuByNight]

@@waveman1500 Regularly, no... but winter climates generally favor removing boats from the water and storing them when waterways freeze.

[@Conceptsexplainedsimply]

I love all of this. The one part that was missing for me was seeing it go slow or from stop to fast.

[@rngalston]

The submerged motor pod I suspect is good ballast.

[@Alessandro---]

Am I the only one to see 0:37 a Fully Charged logo designed on the water in the wake of the Candela? I have followed Candela for a while (since they presented the previous model in Cannes, a day boat), and I just love their product philosophy. Not much left to say about Imogen, she offers just the right mix of making tech accessible while still providing us geeks with the accuracy we need.

[@namefinder]

Hydrofoils are rather old-fashioned, "flying boats" are old news, but making them electric is a great step towards a more electric future. Looking forward to more recreational hydrofoils!

[@rollingstocks]

About time! Nice work fellas 🙂

[@Lost4llen]

Simply mindblowing

[@thesilentone4024]

We can cool citys worldwide with a couple easy to implement infrastructure. Parking lots take up 25 to 30% of land use in citys reduce this by 80%. Go up not out parking garages can have batteries on first floor and solar or wind or bolth on top. So the now freed up land can have native flowers bushes and trees to reduce heat flooding co2 and crime and increase o2 happiness and food if it gets planned of course. This will help cool citys wich will reduce energy demands because you will need to cool buildings less often than before.

[@Yanquetino]

Would've loved to see some of these at Fully Charged LIVE last weekend!

[@PaulWayper]

I love hydrofoils, we should have more of them in commercial fleets.

[@SWR112]

Friend had a very expensive motor yacht or very large speed boat you could sleep in it, it shifted when you wanted it to. Now this was a good few years back but you could spend the day in the Loch it was in. If you went 20 miles in the days fun if felt like you had traveled far. The scary thing was you could watch the fuel gauge move on full power. In todays petrol prices ( yes they had to pay over the odds marina prices to use their pump) back then it burned through £100 in an afternoon and this was 15 plus years back and just thought wow that’s crazy in petrol you have to just accept your going back to put £100 in at the end of the afternoon. So I like this, it looks a fantastic toy to use on the water. More power to them if you forgive the pun. I’ve been around speed boats all my life they are poor on reliability akin to a classic car or at least they used to be so a more reliable boat - great. A clean boat not leaving a rainbow in the water welcome. PS Stockholm looks stunning.

[@listofromantics]

Incredibly stable, fast, quiet... Knock! Knock! "Who's there...?" The military / special operations.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Stridsbåt 2030 🙂

[@stewreviews9345]

Nice video. Electric drive is the obvious choice for hydrofoil boats but surely the correct comparison is with an ICE hydrofoil - plenty of these in commercial operation around the world. We know they're fast and comfortable and that people like riding them. We know that ice varients are expensive to maintain and don't work when the sea gets rougher. Can we fix those problems at all?

[@James_Ryan]

Just the right size for Skellig Isles tours! :)

[@danielmacd]

This was pretty incredible! Wow!

[@SamPrince]

Interesting that the manufacturer said that falls in battery prices will make it more competitive with other boats. Not sure they will shave much off the £250k price tag even if they save the whole battery cost. Perhaps he's suggesting they will be able to increase the range or power output?

[@MaticTheProto]

Ngl, I want one if these because I love hydrofoils. The concept is older than ww2, but this is probably the first affordable boat

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

How slow can it go, and still fly? How is consumption compared at different speeds, both flying and not flying?

[@ZzHasbrozZ]

Did you cover turning radi at speed?

[@stephendoherty8291]

If we are considering flying boats then there are lots of other tech that can cut energy use moving over water - ground effect seaplanes, hydrofoil ferries, air bubble hull surface effect water displacement, waterjet propulsion. While this small boat design can work elsewhere, its weight penalty due to batteries as well as the energy needed to get it up to speed preclude many heavier boats. Point to point ferries which avoid most bad sea states can work with batteries but many ferry routes must face extreme and unexpected sea conditions where weight, balance and propulsion power is paramount. It might work in easier routes like the Red Sea.

[@wickras]

I wonder how this works in challenging water-environment in regards of fouling and marine stuff growing on the hull and, most importantly, on the wings as they’re super sensitive to disturbances.

[@UncleWally3]

Impressive. Wonder if this technology could be used for personal watercraft (ie Sea-Doo)? Given their toxic fumes and relentless noise, we call them Sea-Lice. However, quiet Sea-Lice might be nice!

[@rohankilby4499]

Check out fliteboard efoils its already done 😁👍

[@EastBayFlipper]

The first hydroplane was tested not far from where I am on the Bras d'ore lakes and I'd love to see a more average consumer price point

[@wkrp10splayer19]

price is discussed at what point in the video?

[@MrGMawson2438]

Would adding solar panels make the boat do a bit more range ?

[@mgutkowski]

Depends how small a bit you think would make it worthwhile. Probably not is the quick answer

[@KennethBoatswain]

It should add to the range, especially on a sunny day. However the surface area isn’t much, so the energy generation would be slight.

[@LAZARUSL0NG]

Not so’s you’d notice. Maybe if you were sailing it on the surface of the sun.

[@SimonAmazingClarke]

44 kwh would last 2.5 hours ish, that sounds a bit low to me, but I don't know how long boat owners typically run a boat for in a day. It wasn't mentioned if the hydrofoils retract in shallow water.

[@wonlop469]

Hate to be one, but that would make an excellent Spec Ops infil boat. Paint it Vanta black and you could probably pass within 100 meters without being detected. Major heat source is under the water, so helps with IR detection. Extremely low maintenance.

[@FinnRenard]

Dringking game: Take a shot every time someone says that water is denser than air.

[@Dudleymiddleton]

That's one bottle done. *hic!*

[@FancyaBevMate]

Great video guy's and the best part? you're presenter didn't use excessive use of her hands when talking! (It's the little things that can be annoying; ) )Cheers

[@quackyquavers7066]

It's beautiful and elegant and I think electric can be used in many boat applications. My concern is the damage done to the blades if you hit a lobster pot or fishing bobber. It could end up as a very expensive repair if the blade gets broken, or the motor damaged. That looks like a very expensive motor to replace.

[@armin0815]

10:45 How is not creating a wake in hydrofoil mode beneficial when going through a slow speed area?

[@mickwilson127]

I love this, but worry about what would happen if you were to hit a submerged object like a small log. It looks like it would be a very expensive fix.

[@SpottedCreeper]

Yes I was thinking just this. I grew up on fishing boats in rivers and lakes, occassionally you'd hit a submerged object. If you were lucky the outboard would just kick up and save everything, or if slightly unlucky you'd need to replace the prop, or very unlucky, shaft got damaged :( With these boats, the whole motor is underwater so if it hit something substantial you could be in for a really expensive repair.

[@jessonabike]

How does 50 nm stand up next to the typical range of a fossil boat and the typical trip length of a fossil boat?

[@hmoxh]

A boat of that size easily uses 10 times more fuel than a car for the same range even if it goes slower than your average car.

[@joe55514]

Just no wind noise at all when in fact there was wind. That amazes me.

[@tianjohan4633]

5:02 Hydrofoils as a concept is not new or terrible difficult. About 50 years ago the hydrofoil was so well developed since the yearly sixties that they where rather common. Or at least in southern Europe there where even "speed passenger boats" that where hydrofoils. I know Greece still got a a few of the hydrofoils in operation still. But a foil for every enthusiast that can afford it, that is new afaik. Candela's Pod is also new, and the integration of software and sensors to control the "flight" is new, well at least at this level and size in length.

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BLOODY FANTASTIC - I would sooner have one of these than a car - luv it