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The Swedish electric boat company Candela has just started commercial production of its new 30-passenger P-12 hydrofoil ferry, and customers are already lining up to get their hands on it. The zero emission watercraft levitates above the water while in motion. Energy efficiency for fossil-free travel is the main benefit of hydrofoil technology. The minimal wake of the electric boat is also a powerful attraction, especially when the goal is to preserve a World Heritage Site.
A Low-Wake Flying Electric Boat For A World Heritage Site
We’ll get to that historic environmental protest in a minute, but first let’s take a look at that electric boat. Candela has crossed the CleanTechnica radar a number of times with smaller iterations of its hydrofoil technology, which leverages hydrodynamics…
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