More electric boat investments – Arc Boats $30M Series ‘A’ round
The electric boat investments world keeps heating up. One day after GM announced that it will be investing $150M in
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The Gussies
GM electric boating stake: $150M in Pure Watercraft
The world’s 7th largest automobile maker is moving into zero emission water transportation with a GM electric boating investment –
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Accelerator program to help electric boat startups
Dozens of exciting electric boat startups have been covered by Plugboats over the past couple of years, and there are
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Pancake axial-flux motor powers new Propel electric outboard
Groundbreaking Saietta AFT motors for lightweight EVs and motorcycles will be powering the all new Propel electric outboard and inboard
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Vision Marine scales up for mass production of E-Motion electric outboard
To meet growing demand for the high power E-Motion electric outboard, Vision Marine Technologies has partnered with the McLaren Engineering
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Damen delivers world’s first electric fire-fighting boats
As far as we can determine, these two plug-in hybrids are the world’s first electric fire-fighting boats, delivered by Dutch
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New 9.5 metre model from electric wooden boatbuilder Elwood
The newest model from the Finnish electric wooden boatbuilder, the 950e Mid Cabin, is the largest in the company’s line
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Will Smith, Kevin Durant, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs invest in Arc electric boats
A very exciting update to last week’s Plugboats article and Podcast about Arc electric boats – the all electric water
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WaVeS #4: arcs, sparks and electric boat news
Plugboats WaVeS is an occasional collection of electric boat news and boating items that we have written about before and
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Swappable shipping container batteries help Heineken go green
Zero Emission Services has a clever idea for electric propulsion: shipping container batteries. Filling a standard container with batteries means
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Emirates America’s Cup team working on hydrogen chase boat
Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ), winner of the 36th America’s Cup this past March, is developing a hydrogen chase boat
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Gyroscopic e-foiling surfboard makes ‘flying’ easy for anyone
If you’ve seen those foiling boards go by and thought wow, that looks like fun, a new gyroscopic e-foiling surfboard
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New Yamaha electric boat motor debuts at Genoa Boat Show
First introduced in 2016 and after a year of sea trials in Japan, the new Yamaha electric boat motor and
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Edorado 8S – new Dutch hydrofoiling eboat ready to take off
After years of design, development and testing, this new high speed, high style Dutch hydrofoiling eboat is being unveiled as
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New Groupe Beneteau electric and hybrid systems announced at Cannes
On the eve of the opening of the 43rd Cannes Yachting Festival, Groupe Beneteau invited 150 selected guests to their
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eOPEN: 2 new Zodiac electric boats with Torqeedo motors
The largest name in RIBs and the largest name in electric boat motors today announced that they will be collaborating
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Electric boat speed record set at Lake of The Ozarks Shootout
A Vision Marine Technologies Bruce 22 equipped with the company’s E-Motion 180e engine set the new electric boat speed record
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Breakthrough Candela 8 set to prove electric to general boat buying public
Bigger, longer range, with the new Candela C-POD motor, the Candela 8 electric hydrofoiling boat is a game changer –
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New Arcona 415 first sailing yacht with electric propulsion standard
Sweden’s Arcona Yachts has announced that their new Arcona 415 has Oceanvolt electric propulsion as a standard feature, a first
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Candela electric boat motor: big efficiency with 2 motors, 2 props
When the team at Candela was tasked with designing a new electric boat motor, they used the same principal they
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