Boats

Boats Solifleur – One of the First Solar Passenger Boats Long before solar ferries became news, a few Swiss lakes were already quietly running them. One of the pioneers was Mark Wüst,… Read more Boats Tûranor PlanetSolar – Around the World on Sunlight Long before solar cars were in the news, a giant white catamaran quietly proved that the sun can take you all the… Read more Boats Bluebottle – An Ocean Drone Powered by Sun, Wind and Waves Remember the Solar Sailor ferry with its tilting solar wings? Its inventor Robert Dane took that idea out to the open ocean.… Read more Boats Elektronemo – Prague’s Solar Boat in the Devil’s Channel Prague's most romantic waterway is also one of its narrowest. The Čertovka, or "Devil's Channel", runs between Kampa island and the Malá… Read more Boats TU Delft Solar Boat – Flying Over Water on Hydrofoils A boat that flies sounds like science fiction. On a solar budget of a few square metres of panels, though, it is… Read more Boats Solar Sailor – The Ferry with Solar Wings What if a sail could also be a solar panel? Sydney doctor Robert Dane was so taken by this idea that he… Read more Boats MobiCat – Switzerland’s Big Solar Lake Catamaran Lake Biel, at the foot of the Jura vineyards, is home to one of the world's pioneering big solar ships. MobiCat entered… Read more Boats SunCat 120 – Berlin’s Solar Catamaran on the Spree Solar boats are not only for record attempts. On the Spree in the middle of Berlin, a 36.5-metre catamaran takes tourists and… Read more Boats Aditya – India’s First Solar Ferry Every day since January 2017, a quiet blue-and-white catamaran has shuttled villagers, students and commuters across Vembanad Lake in Kerala. Aditya was… Read more Boats Malt’s Mermaid – Across the Pacific on Sunlight Kenichi Horie is a legend of Japanese sailing. In 1962 he famously sailed alone across the Pacific from Japan to San Francisco.… Read more Boats Serpentine Solar Shuttle – London’s Solar Boat in Hyde Park If you have walked through Hyde Park in summer, you may have seen it: a curved, glass-and-steel shell gliding silently across the… Read more Boats Wayward Sun – A Father and Son’s Solar Voyage to Alaska The Inside Passage to Alaska is one of the great small-boat journeys: hundreds of miles of fjords, islands and tidal currents. In… Read more Boats Solar Odyssey – A Solar-Electric Racing Trimaran Most solar boats are calm, boxy ferries. Solar Odyssey is something else: an orange-and-white racing trimaran that looks as if it should… Read more Boats Alstersonne – Hamburg’s Solar Boat on the Alster Hamburg's Alster lakes in the middle of the city have been crossed by passenger boats for over 150 years. In 2000 the… Read more Boats Energy Observer – Sun, Wind and Hydrogen at Sea Where PlanetSolar proved that solar power alone can cross oceans, Energy Observer asked the next question: what if a boat could make… Read more