{"id":167506,"date":"2023-07-14T10:27:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/at-100-nautical-miles-this-battery-powered-hydrofoil-boat-offers-worlds-longest-range"},"modified":"2023-07-14T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:27:57","slug":"at-100-nautical-miles-this-battery-powered-hydrofoil-boat-offers-worlds-longest-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/at-100-nautical-miles-this-battery-powered-hydrofoil-boat-offers-worlds-longest-range","title":{"rendered":"At 100 nautical miles, this battery-powered hydrofoil boat offers world\u2019s longest range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JEkudqjxWJ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The purpose-built 35ft electric flying boat also offers a top speed of 22 knots.<\/p>\n<p>How do you make an electric boat go faster and further on a single charge? Either you fit a more powerful battery that usually increases the weight, making it counterproductive, or use a hydrofoil system to reduce drag.<\/p>\n<p>The SpiritBARTech35EF is a product of UK-based boat design\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Equipmake.<\/p>\n<p>SpiritBARTech35EF has found an ideal solution to this by utilizing both to derive the longest range for an electric yacht at 100 nautical miles (115 miles\/185 km) and a top speed of 22 knots (25 mph\/41 km\/h) once it is flying. The purpose-built 35ft electric flying boat also features a trio of active retractable foils to help minimize drag.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/at-100-nautical-miles-this-battery-powered-hydrofoil-boat-offers-worlds-longest-range\">Continue reading \u201cAt 100 nautical miles, this battery-powered hydrofoil boat offers world\u2019s longest range\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose-built 35ft electric flying boat also offers a top speed of 22 knots. How do you make an electric boat go faster and further on a single charge? Either you fit a more powerful battery that usually increases the weight, making it counterproductive, or use a hydrofoil system to reduce drag. The SpiritBARTech35EF is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167506","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}