{"id":176271,"date":"2023-11-18T20:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T02:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/these-electric-ferries-may-set-a-new-standard-around-clean-public-transportation"},"modified":"2023-11-18T20:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T02:22:43","slug":"these-electric-ferries-may-set-a-new-standard-around-clean-public-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/these-electric-ferries-may-set-a-new-standard-around-clean-public-transportation","title":{"rendered":"These electric ferries may set a new standard around clean public transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-electric-ferries-may-set-a-new-standard-around-clean-public-transportation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STOCKHOLM (AP) \u2014 Many cities around the world see clean and efficient public transport as a crucial way to lower their carbon emissions. For cities with waterways, a high-tech ferry in Sweden could soon set a new standard.<\/p>\n<p>Speeding through Stockholm\u2019s archipelago, electric boat maker Candela\u2019s new P-12 vessel barely makes a sound as it glides over a meter (3 feet) above the water. Its developers hope the ferry, which was unveiled this week, will yield a new era of waterborne public transport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a real leap forward,\u201d said Erik Eklund, who is in charge of the commercial vessel division at Candela. \u201cThe energy savings we get by going airborne on the foils give us the speed and range we need to make this work on batteries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKHOLM (AP) \u2014 Many cities around the world see clean and efficient public transport as a crucial way to lower their carbon emissions. For cities with waterways, a high-tech ferry in Sweden could soon set a new standard. Speeding through Stockholm\u2019s archipelago, electric boat maker Candela\u2019s new P-12 vessel barely makes a sound as it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176271","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}