{"id":116400,"date":"2020-11-27T21:24:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/volkswagen-and-cupra-pitch-in-on-solar-electric-yacht"},"modified":"2020-11-27T21:24:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T05:24:15","slug":"volkswagen-and-cupra-pitch-in-on-solar-electric-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/volkswagen-and-cupra-pitch-in-on-solar-electric-yacht","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen and Cupra pitch in on solar electric yacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volkswagen-and-cupra-pitch-in-on-solar-electric-yacht.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Austrian boatbuilder <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/holiday-destinations\/silent-yachts-solar-powered-floating-villa\/\">Silent Yachts<\/a> has already gained a fair bit of attention with its solar electric catamarans. Its just-announced latest model should continue that trend, as it\u2019s the result of a partnership with automakers Volkswagen and Cupra.<\/p>\n<p>According to Silent Yachts, the as-yet unnamed solar-powered electric catamaran will feature the company\u2019s own photovoltaic system. This will be used to charge batteries that will in turn provide power to the yacht\u2019s onboard electronics, and to its electric propulsion system.<\/p>\n<p>That system will be based around Volkswagen\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/volkswagen-electric-dune-buggy-concept\/58283\/\">modular electric drive matrix<\/a> (MEB) platform. MEB was initially designed as an optimized means of delivering power from a bank of chassis-integrated batteries to a motor on a car\u2019s rear axle \u2013 the platform can also be set up for four-wheel-drive. Volkswagen has since made the technology available for third-party applications, hence its upcoming use for spinning the catamaran\u2019s propellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian boatbuilder Silent Yachts has already gained a fair bit of attention with its solar electric catamarans. Its just-announced latest model should continue that trend, as it\u2019s the result of a partnership with automakers Volkswagen and Cupra. According to Silent Yachts, the as-yet unnamed solar-powered electric catamaran will feature the company\u2019s own photovoltaic system. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}