Instead of rushing to BART or resigning to drive and pay the all-day parking fee, what if you could hop on a nautical Tesla and arrive at your destination across the Bay in 10 minutes flat?
A Swedish tech company called Candela has developed a high-speed, fully electric, smart commuter ferry that uses a wing beneath the hull, called a hydrofoil, to cut time, energy and sound from travel. The result is like a Tesla that can swim – or more accurately, fly.
The C-7 Candela Speedboat We tested one of Candela's leisure boats, the C-7. This is one of the earlier models, clocking in at 7 meters long, but the newest in the leisure line is 8 meters and includes a small sleeping cabin. Inside of the ship The inside of the Stockholm P-series model. The P-12 designed for the Bay Area is spaced out a bit more, and alternates between seats that face each other and seats that face forward, like a BART train. All passengers will be required to wear a seat belt, said Eklund,"because technically, it is flying".
"It's just like a normal boat," said Erik Eklund, vice president of Candela."Except it can fly. And it's totally silent." Axel demonstrates the charging port Axel Brangenfeldt explains how the C-series boats use the same charging ports that you may use for an electric vehicle like a Tesla. The battery is a 40 kWh lithium ion pack from BMW, and has a range of 50 nautical miles per charge.
Candela's initial designs of the boats show a sleek catamaran that hovers above the chop of the water. The vessel is closer in size to a bus than a ferry, with a capacity for about 30 people and slots for a few bikes, compared to the current San Francisco Bay ferries that fit as many as 450 people. The idea is to focus on efficiency and frequency of service rather than quantity of passengers, according Eklund.
The 97-year-old Klamath ferry will soon be yours to visit The Klamath used to take 1,000 people across the bay daily. Now it's staying put at Pier 9.
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