Posted on 02/17/2022 12:38:02 PM PST by Red Badger
Candela has already sold more than 100 C-8s, with production set to begin soonCandela VIEW 6 IMAGES
Candela aims to smash electric boat range records with its C-8, using a hydrofoil system that eliminates as much as 80 percent of the drag you'd get from a conventional design. The first prototype C-8 has now flown, and Candela has released video.
The marine sector is going to be hard to electrify. It takes a lot of energy to push through water, as David Hasselhoff would attest, and lithium batteries carry a fairly depressing 2 percent of the energy content of an equivalent weight of gasoline. Thus, electric boats simply don't go very far at the moment.
Candela's solution is to get the hull right up out of the water on hydrofoils. Takeoff speed for the C-8 is 16 knots (18.4 mph, 29.6 km/h), upon which it rises up until nothing but three carbon struts are visible touching the water. Under the surface, the front two are joined by a wing-shaped foil, and the rear terminates in a torpedo-shaped "C-Pod" electric propulsion unit with wings extending out from the sides. These foils are retractable when the water gets shallow, to the point where you can lift the motor out of the water entirely.
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VIDEO AT LINK......................
Where do I plug in?
Hey buddy, can you spare a couple of batteries to get me back home? forty kilowatt hours should do it.
When you’re plugging it in. Make sure you’re standing in a puddle of water.
Sweet!👍
” and lithium batteries carry a fairly depressing 2 percent of the energy content of an equivalent weight of gasoline.”
But, but, 0-60 times are teh fastar.
E-pleasure boats seem like a very good application to me. Most run around lakes for a few hours and they’re done. Fishermen go a spot and sit there a while. Plenty of range, and fast.
Ekranoplan
As long as the batteries on your loud hailer and radios don’t die, too!
Haven’t hydrofoils been around for about 60 or 70 years?
Boeing built these in the 1970’s... Hydrofoils!
The referenced article indicates it was used between Fort Lauderdale and Nassau. Come on, I was in middle school at that time; yet, I remember the name of the ship and that is was a hydrofoil.
You can troll fast and only catch the healthy fish.
Sailfish, mostly.
Yes, but not electric ones.................
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