First 100% electric flying boat prepares to transport passengers in Stockholm

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Swedish company Candela launches its new P-12 electric boat, which 'flies' one metre above water and generates very little amount of waves. The shuttle ferry is due to welcome its first passengers next October in Stockholm.

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00:00Okay, we're stable.

00:25It's amazing, it feels like future, you're basically flying at 25 knots without hearing

00:45any noise, without feeling the waves, and it's so stable and yet so simple to drive

00:52that it really makes it so amazing, I mean, I don't have other words.

00:59So there is a very little amount of waves that are generated, so this doesn't disturb

01:27other boats, and this doesn't create waves that erode the coast.

01:32That's why we are allowed to fly even faster, even in those areas where speed is limited.

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