Candela Sets 24-Hour Distance Record For Electric Boats — 777 Kilometers!
The Candela C-8 has set a new 24 hour distance record for electric boats — 483 miles — thanks to partners Northvolt and Plug.
The Candela C-8 has set a new 24 hour distance record for electric boats — 483 miles — thanks to partners Northvolt and Plug.
Silence is golden. Noise makes our bodies tense up. It’s stressful. We value the lack of noise far more when coming from a loud environment into a quieter place. Going from the city into the countryside, we notice how peaceful things are. We breathe deeper and feel more connected with … [continued]
Here at CleanTechnica, we write a lot about EVs, meaning mostly land-based electric vehicles: cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, e-bikes, and once in a while even electric tractors. Enough posts have been made about the Polestar EVs they have their own tag on the site. Occasionally, we also write about electric … [continued]
Electric vehicle news is usually about personal transportation. Tesla’s EVs tend to dominate coverage because they are the most popular. Increasingly, non-Tesla manufacturers have been launching their own offerings, such as Lucid, Rivian, and the Ford F-150 Lightning. There is much more to electric vehicles though. Electrifying mass transit is … [continued]
The new Voyager electric hydrofoil adds cabin cruiser comfort to the company’s flight plan.
Go to the Cannes boat show this September to test drive a Candela C-8 electric boat.
Do electric boats dream of solid-state batteries? Who knows, but the Candela-BMW mashup drops a hint, as does the US Navy.
Candela has announced its new C-8 electric boat, noting that this is the iPhone moment for this sector. The hydrofoiling speedboat offers long all-electric range and high speed. It has been in development for 16 months. It’s the company’s most ordered electric boat ever and had its first flight outside … [continued]
Candela already builds one of the wildest, transformer-iest speed boats we’ve ever seen, and we’re huge fans. So, when the company reached out to us a few days ago with pictures of a thing that looked like a cross between a Mark 48 torpedo and a Tomahawk cruise missile, we … [continued]
Water is a drag, literally! The same cohesive properties that make water wet also cause a lot of drag on the underside of a boat’s hull, but a hydrofoil uses an underwater wing to produce lift, just like an airplane, hoisting the boat up and out of the water for … [continued]