FLY ELECTRIC
Jun 04, 2020
4 minutes
Words Hugo Andreae
For something that looks as cool as the Candela Seven, it’s hard to believe that the starting point was a mathematical equation. But that’s exactly how it came about. In 2014 a crack team of boffins with experience ranging from fighter jet control technicians to America’s Cup hydrodynamicists, assembled in Stockholm to try and solve a seemingly intractable problem – how to create an all-electric boat with the range and performance to match a petrol one.
The fact is that a 25ft sportsboat uses 15 times as much fuel as a family car, yet pound for pound even the most advanced battery holds 15 times less energy than petrol. To resolve these two conflicting
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