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World’s first solar speedboat
We usually try to keep electricity and water apart, but it seems the electric engine revolution is moving through the boating world as well.
The Czeers MK1 prototype is, as far as its Dutch creators are concerned, the world’s first solar speedboat.
The resulting test boat, made from 100% carbon fiber inlaid with leather trim, photovoltaic cells on almost all horizontal surfaces and an LCD touch-screen control system, launched at the Millionaire Fair in 2007, and has since proven itself up to 30 knots on the water.
The Delft Technical University Solarboat Team built the original platform as an entry in the 2006 Nuon Frisian Solar challenge, which it easily won - and in the process, attracted serious investment power from Rabobank to get a full scale test boat built.
Read more at: gizmag.com
Topics: Solar panels |
