Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 4:14:55 GMT -4
A team in Russia has developed this stylish electric airboat boat with a classic retro-tech look, both inside and out. The classic-looking Molniya electric hydrofoil boat made its debut in Moscow.
The ship is called Molniya , Russian for 'lightning bolt', and uses fixed surface piercing foils (SP) instead of the retractable fully submerged inverted T (FS) type on ships such as the Candela
The Molniya prototype was built by Artem Markov and a small team he assembled in Moscow. Markov graduated from the Moscow Automobile and Road Construction Institute, where he was part of their Form Caseno Email List ula MADI electric car racing team that competed against other universities around the world.
Classic-looking electric hydrofoil boat debuts in MoscowThe idea of the Molniya hydrofoil electric boat started in
Like many other electric boat developers, he is also a long-time sailor and says: “ I have never been able to understand what the beauty is of going on motor boats with a lot of vibration and noise.
So, I decided I wanted to find a way to transfer the silence and comfort of a yacht to a boat. The idea came to me in and from that moment on I started working on the project .”
He is a big fan of the work the Candela team has been doing and is well aware of their reasoning for why hydrofoiling is the way to reduce drag and increase efficiency and comfort. He then knew what the path to follow was and began to design the boat of her dreams.
It's one thing to know exactly what you want, but budget realities often cause inventors to adapt. So he found a classic fiberglass and aluminum hull and got to work redesigning and converting it.
The team had to strengthen and reinforce the hull to handle the stresses on the front fins. At the stern of the ship , they designed protruding half-wings that would help lift the ship onto those forward SP foils as it accelerated.
Features of the Molniya electric hydrofoil boat
kW motor mounted on the stern drive unit
For propulsion, the decision was made to retrofit the runabout's sterndrive (or Z-drive or Inboard/Outboard, depending on where you live).
Using knowledge and experience from designing and building electric racing cars, he commissioned an kW • HP motor to connect to the existing lower unit. It is the same concept used by AQAForce in Germany and EPTechnologies in Denmark.
The ship is called Molniya , Russian for 'lightning bolt', and uses fixed surface piercing foils (SP) instead of the retractable fully submerged inverted T (FS) type on ships such as the Candela
The Molniya prototype was built by Artem Markov and a small team he assembled in Moscow. Markov graduated from the Moscow Automobile and Road Construction Institute, where he was part of their Form Caseno Email List ula MADI electric car racing team that competed against other universities around the world.
Classic-looking electric hydrofoil boat debuts in MoscowThe idea of the Molniya hydrofoil electric boat started in
Like many other electric boat developers, he is also a long-time sailor and says: “ I have never been able to understand what the beauty is of going on motor boats with a lot of vibration and noise.
So, I decided I wanted to find a way to transfer the silence and comfort of a yacht to a boat. The idea came to me in and from that moment on I started working on the project .”
He is a big fan of the work the Candela team has been doing and is well aware of their reasoning for why hydrofoiling is the way to reduce drag and increase efficiency and comfort. He then knew what the path to follow was and began to design the boat of her dreams.
It's one thing to know exactly what you want, but budget realities often cause inventors to adapt. So he found a classic fiberglass and aluminum hull and got to work redesigning and converting it.
The team had to strengthen and reinforce the hull to handle the stresses on the front fins. At the stern of the ship , they designed protruding half-wings that would help lift the ship onto those forward SP foils as it accelerated.
Features of the Molniya electric hydrofoil boat
kW motor mounted on the stern drive unit
For propulsion, the decision was made to retrofit the runabout's sterndrive (or Z-drive or Inboard/Outboard, depending on where you live).
Using knowledge and experience from designing and building electric racing cars, he commissioned an kW • HP motor to connect to the existing lower unit. It is the same concept used by AQAForce in Germany and EPTechnologies in Denmark.