Posts by Don Wright
Red Snapper – Hybrid – Marine Drive System
The Red Snapper hybrid electric, drop in, inboard marine drive system is the perfect cost-effective solution to convert your boat to electric hybrid, without replacing your engine! This revolutionary hybrid drop in solution is designed to fit around and work with your current engine and is the first of it’s kind (as far as we…
Read MorePolyBoat Challenge
Rental Boats are also eligible, here’s how..! Yes, Rental boats can also take part in our convivial contest for it is THE BOAT which is the competitor not the crew. For example, Madame Dominique Renouf of the Association Bateaux pour la planète (Boats for the Planet) runs the Phoebus Boat Club, a fleet of solar-powered catamaran houseboats for…
Read MoreParis Olympics e-cruise
An electric fleet on the Seine for the Paris Olympic Games by Kevin Desmond This summer has seen some great rallies for electric boats: 34 e-boats cruised around the island of Venice, 65 e-boats teams competed at the Monaco Solar Energy Boat Challenge, then on July 23rd, despite heavy rain, watched by 326,000 riverside spectators…
Read MoreThe Most Colourful Electric Boats in the World
Our Indian story begins in the north-west of that continent, three decades’ ago in Udaipur, known as the city of the eleven lakes, the Venice of the east. Here « Shriji” Arvind Singh, Mewar of Udaipur, Chairman and Managing Trustee of the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation, had a vision of Udaipur as a solar city.…
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