Electric hydrofoil sets world record
The trip was made from Stockholm and the Finnish autonomous region of Åland. According to the manufacturer, the boat even returned the same day and completed the journey “at 95 per cent lower costs than a fossil-fuel-powered boat.”
The Candela C-8 left the Swedish capital on Thursday morning, and arrived at Åland Islands “at lunchtime.” But it did have to make two charging stops. At the first one in Kapellskär, the electric boat plugged into a 40-kW wheeled charger from Kempower. The movable charger was hooked up to the Harbour’s existing power grid. Finland’s Mariehamn, the team used “the marina’s three-phase outlet” to recharge the batteries.
For the whole trip, the Candela C-( used up 213 kWh of electricity, which cost about 40 to 50 euros. The photographer’s boat was conventionally fuelled and had to fill the tank for 750 euros along the route, showing that the hydrofoil could complete the journey at a much lower cost.
“We’re talking about 95% lower operating costs. This is a revolution that makes waterborne transöport competitive with land transport in terms of costs, which we will now demonstrate in public transport in Stockholm,” said Candela CEO Gustav Hasselskog. And: “We actually had range anxiety, but not for the Candela. The irony is that the photographer’s gasoline-powered chase boat had to refuel six times during the trip, while we only charged three times.”
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