this September in collaboration with Sud Plaisance, the leading recreational boat dealer in France. Test drives for well-heeled potential customers will be available during the Cannes Yachting Festival this year — the most prestigious boat show on the planet, according to anyone who is anybody.is the first electric daycruiser that offers both long range and high speed. 100 of its electric boats have already been sold in the US and parts of Europe.
Other drawbacks of conventional motorboats are the high cost of fuel, not being able to hear yourself think over the sound of the engine, and the pounding that comes from constantly slamming into waves at high speed. In other words, being offshore in a speedboat can not only be loud and expensive but actually painful if the sea is turbulent.
Once the Candela C-8 is up on its ultra-efficient hydrofoils, all those issues go away. The onboard flight control computer automatically regulates the angle of attack of the hydrofoils 100 times per second to account for wind, waves, and different loads. The result is an automatically stable craft that doesn’t slam, roll or pitch in waves.years ago when James May raced from Monaco to Cannes in an offshore speedboat while Richard Hammond made the same trip in an exotic sports car.
“Our goal with the Candela C-8 was not only to build the best electric boat, but to make a vastly better boat than today’s powerboats. To do away with all the drawbacks and provide a far better experience,” says Hasselskog. The foils make C-8 about 400% more efficient than conventional motorboats, thanks to vastly reduced friction. At 20 knots, Candela C-8 uses only about 21 kW of power, which makes its lithium-ion battery last for over 2 hours of cruising or about 50 nautical miles of range. That’s more than two times the endurance of any other electric speedboat on the market and means it can cruise from Cannes to Monaco and back on a single charge.