{"id":198637,"date":"2024-11-01T04:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T09:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-worlds-first-ever-electric-hydrofoil-ferry-begins-operations"},"modified":"2024-11-01T04:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T09:24:16","slug":"the-worlds-first-ever-electric-hydrofoil-ferry-begins-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-worlds-first-ever-electric-hydrofoil-ferry-begins-operations","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s first ever electric hydrofoil ferry begins operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-first-ever-electric-hydrofoil-ferry-begins-operations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Candela\u2019s P-12 gracefully flew over the waterways in Stockholm this morning, the event marked the first-ever commercial operation of a hydrofoil electric ferry.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a long time coming for the P-12, with years of development resulting in the first images of the boat released <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/06\/23\/candela-p-12-shuttle-electric-boat-images\/\">over two years ago<\/a> and testing getting started <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/11\/16\/first-flying-electric-ferry-completes-passenger-test-flights-starts-serial-production\/\">only last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now the first Candela P-12 in commercial operation, named \u201cNova\u201d, set out this morning from Tappstr\u00f6m, quickly reaching its destination at Stockholm City Hall. The 15 km (9 mile) journey took just 30 minutes, or around half the time it normally takes by car or public transit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Candela\u2019s P-12 gracefully flew over the waterways in Stockholm this morning, the event marked the first-ever commercial operation of a hydrofoil electric ferry. It\u2019s been a long time coming for the P-12, with years of development resulting in the first images of the boat released over two years ago and testing getting started only [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198637","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}