{"id":125773,"date":"2021-08-03T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T18:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/former-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-commercial-electric-speedboat"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T18:22:50","slug":"former-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-commercial-electric-speedboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/former-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-commercial-electric-speedboat","title":{"rendered":"Former SpaceX engineers are building a commercial electric speedboat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/former-spacex-engineers-are-building-a-commercial-electric-speedboat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of former SpaceX rocket engineers has joined the race to build the commercial electric speedboat. Their revolutionary company, Arc Boats, based in California, has secured a seed funding of $4.25 million to start work on a 24-foot watersports boat that will cost about $300000.<\/p>\n<p>Arc\u2019s first boat looks simple but is something amazing \u2014 at least on paper. The Arc Boats already has one prototype ready. The boat will have a 200kWh, 800-volt battery \u2014 roughly double the capacity and voltage of Tesla\u2019s current top-tier package. Its 475 HP electric motor will deliver a top speed of around 40 mph (64 km\/h), and the battery will allow an average usage time between three to five hours.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-foot-long (7.3 m) boat combines marine-grade aluminum and aerospace manufacturing techniques, which enables a lightweight, low-cost yet strong structure. The boat can seat up to 10 people. Moreover, the boat will throw a wake behind it, meaning it will be fun to use for wake sports like waterskiing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The speedboat can reach 40 miles per hour and run for 5 hours per charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of former SpaceX rocket engineers has joined the race to build the commercial electric speedboat. Their revolutionary company, Arc Boats, based in California, has secured a seed funding of $4.25 million to start work on a 24-foot watersports boat that will cost about $300000. Arc\u2019s first boat looks simple but is something amazing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125773","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}