Silent Yachts

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Silent 60 sea trial: quiet, spacious, self-charging

August 7, 2022 Jeff Butler 758 Views 2 Comments Silent Yachts

The first impression on stepping aboard for our Silent 60 sea trial is how light, airy and spacious everything feels

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Electric catamarans, tenders, hybrids…Silent-Yachts is now Silent Group

February 25, 2022 Jeff Butler 1023 Views 0 Comments Austria, Italy, Silent Yachts, Turkey

Coming off a record setting year in which they sold 21 of their luxury electric catamarans and expanded their shipyard

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WaVeS #4: arcs, sparks and electric boat news

October 20, 2021April 13, 2023 Jeff Butler 1430 Views 0 Comments Corvus, Germany, Ingenity, Nautique, Oceanvolt, Salona, Silent Yachts, SWITCH, USA, Watershed Innovation

Plugboats WaVeS is an occasional collection of electric boat news and boating items that we have written about before and

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Recreation 

New Volkswagen Silent-Yachts solar electric catamaran in the works

November 30, 2020 Jeff Butler 4074 Views 0 Comments Austria, Silent Yachts, Volkswagen, VW

This could be exciting. Leaders from EVs and e-boats teaming up in a Volkswagen Silent-Yachts collaboration that also involves Cupra,

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Batteries Recreation 

Silent Yachts: 500 lithium battery packs, 2.5 megawatts on order

November 15, 2020November 26, 2020 Jeff Butler 5484 Views 2 Comments Austria, Li-ion, Silent Yachts

With 10 solar electric catamarans under construction, these lithium battery packs have energy storage equal to about 25 Tesla Model

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Recreation Solar Yachts 

New floating solar powered resort developed by Silent Yachts

September 3, 2020 Jeff Butler 5426 Views 0 Comments Austria, Caribbean, Silent Yachts

A floating solar powered resort concept developed by Silent Yachts provides vacationers, boat lovers and resort owners a sustainable luxury

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Competitions 

Electric boats take 2 out of 6 at Best of Boat Awards

November 24, 2019February 9, 2020 Jeff Butler 3745 Views 0 Comments Austria, Candela, Hydrofoil, Silent Yachts, Sweden

The Best of Boat Awards honoured Candela Speedboat and Silent Yachts 55  in the ‘Best for Future’ and ‘Best For Travel’ categories

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Three electric boat nominations in Best of Boat Awards

November 6, 2019 Jeff Butler 7597 Views 0 Comments Best of Boats, Germany, Greenline, Marian, Silent Yachts

Three electric boat nominations in the Best of Boats Awards are an indication that e-boats are starting to get broader

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Solar yacht co-winner in OCEAN Awards 2019!

May 9, 2019January 13, 2020 Jeff Butler 3016 Views 0 Comments Austria, Awards, Silent Yachts

The beautiful and innovative Silent 64 by Silent Yachts was introduced to the world in January, 2018, after 15 years

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More award nominations for solar Silent-Yachts

March 4, 2019May 9, 2019 Jeff Butler 2236 Views 0 Comments Awards, Monaco, Silent Yachts, UIM

Coming on the heels of its nomination in the OCEAN Awards which we wrote about a couple of weeks ago,

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Recreation Solar Yachts 

Now you can buy a time share in a luxury solar mega-yacht

February 14, 2019September 3, 2020 Jeff Butler 5003 Views 0 Comments Austria, Silent Yachts

Austria’s Silent-Yachts is one of the pioneers of solar powered yachts. From 2005 to 2009 founders Michael and Heike Köhler

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