Electric boat
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An electric boat is a watercraft driven by electric motors that are powered by on-board battery packs or solar panels.
Built in 2025, China Zorrilla is the largest battery electric ship ever built, it measures 130 m (425 ft) in length and is designed to carry up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles across the Rio de la Plata.
In 2012, PlanetSolar became the first ever solar electric vehicle to circumnavigate the globe.
Electric motor designed by Immisch & Co., who established the first fleet of electric launches in London
Early electric launch on the River Thames, built by William Sargeant
Tûranor PlanetSolar
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MS Tûranor PlanetSolar, after May 23, 2025 known as the Porrima P111, was previously known under the project name PlanetSolar, founded by the Swiss explorer Raphaël Domjan, and relaunched on May 23, 2
Electric boat
…first solar vessel to feed more energy into the electricity grid than it consumed, on a yearly average, via a grid connection when docked. In 2010, the Tûranor PlanetSolar, a 35-metre long, 26-metre wide catamaran yacht powered by 537 square metres of solar panels, was unveiled. On 4 May 2012 it completed a 60,023 kilometres…
PlanetSolar in Miami, Florida
PlanetSolar in Hamburg, 2010
Construction in Kiel, Germany.
At the shipyard of Concarneau.