00:10Bueno, yo estoy en un bote que es literalmente
00:14sobre la superficie de agua.
00:16Es un sentimiento muy increíble
00:18y es la idea de una compañía de suede que quiere
00:21revolucionar el transporte de agua.
00:31Estamos en Stockholm, la capital de Suecia.
00:34Siendo en 14 islas,
00:36es también llamado la Veneza del Norte.
00:38Esta es donde estos únicos bosques
00:41fueron diseñados por una startup
00:42con un plan para cambiar las vidas
00:44de los viajes del mundo.
00:48Hola, mi nombre es Mikael Malberg.
00:51Bienvenido a Candela en Stockholm.
00:53Hemos construido el primer hidrofoil ferro.
00:58Hemos un departamento, un departamento,
01:00un departamento, un departamento,
01:03un departamento y un departamento.
01:05Hemos alrededor de 60 ingenieros en Candela
01:08y estamos produciendo un vessel
01:11cada dos semanas.
01:14Set en el port de Frihamnen
01:16en central Stockholm,
01:18Candela ha construido su propio testo
01:20para sus electric-powered bosques.
01:22La empresa ha ido un largo
01:24desde que fue fundado en 2014
01:26por este hombre,
01:28un ingeniero,
01:29un ingeniero.
01:29Mi nombre es Gustav Hasenskog.
01:32Yo soy el founder y CEO de Candela.
01:34Y aquí tenemos el primer
01:35prototipo de Ferry P-12.
01:38Hemos colocado en agua
01:40desde hace 3 años.
01:41Desde que hemos construido
01:43un montón de bosques.
01:44Así, bienvenido.
01:50Esto es el primer
01:51el primer
01:52comuitor escala
01:53electric-hidrofoiling
01:54hueso
01:54con computador
01:56hueso
01:57para fluir
01:57sobre el agua.
02:00Ahora tenemos 7 kilómetros de velocidad.
02:03Vamos a poner el poder hasta 17 kilómetros.
02:07Y luego se levanta sobre el agua y luego se llorar en alrededor de 25 kilómetros.
02:1230 centímetros sobre el agua y con una consumación de 9 kilómetros por nautical mil.
02:22Eso es un dólar consumación de electricidad.
02:27Cuando se levanta el barco, el desplazamiento del agua reducen 80% a 85%.
02:33Hemos quedado este barco en aproximadamente una hora.
02:37Podemos dirigir normalmente 40 nautical miles y podemos tener 30 pasajeros.
02:43Una de las más ricas que se pueden ver es que siempre no hay weight en el barco.
02:47No nos llaman mucha energía, creando grandes cambios en la dirección del agua.
02:52Cuando se puede reducir el consumo de energía, y reducirlo con algo de 80%,
02:59también tenemos que tomar un montón de los costos de combustible.
03:02Eso significa que operar en este tipo de ferro es más fácil que operar en tradicionales, viejas de combustible.
03:08Ferry traffic consumes something like 15 times more fuel per seat or per kilometre seat than if you go by
03:16a city bus.
03:18So although in most cities the ferry transport is fairly small,
03:21it contributes a lot to the total emissions from the public transport.
03:26So there is a tremendous potential to go after this big bucket of CO2 emissions with this new technology.
03:34The Candela P12 shuttle started operating in late 2024 on a 15-kilometre route linking the Ekerö suburb and central
03:43Stockholm.
03:44Compared to traditional ferries, travel time was reduced by half and CO2 emissions were slashed by over 90%.
03:52Plans to expand the service to other routes are in the pipeline
03:56and surveys have shown high levels of passenger satisfaction.
04:02It's easy to understand why, while we're filming the P12 ferry
04:06from one of the high-speed electric foiling leisure boats, also designed by Candela.
04:12I'm actually steering the computer and the boat is steered by the software intern.
04:18When the boat is flying, it needs to be micro-adjusted by the hydrofoil 100 times per second
04:22to be kept stable and smooth.
04:25I just go full speed, like this, and then the boat will automatically turn off.
04:32So we're approaching a speed of 70 knots here, and the boat is now fully foil-borne.
04:39So we're flying roughly a metre above the water.
04:41This is a digital pill against sea sickness.
04:44The greatest benefit of this technology is that it's really a better experience.
04:49I mean, now we're sitting here and we can talk to each other without screaming.
04:53It opens up a new world of water transport because you start to talk to your passengers
04:59instead of just sitting in silence and holding on to the air life.
05:03And the whole idea with the hydrofoiling concept is to take the discomfort out of boating
05:08at the same time to reduce the operating costs.
05:12And, of course, spare the environment for emissions, local oil spillage,
05:17and, above all, wake and noise.
05:22Back in Stockholm, production is in full swing at the Candela factory.
05:28We have multiple boats on the assembly line right now.
05:31We have three ranges right now.
05:34We have the lounge version, the business, and the tour.
05:39Efforts at the moment are focused on the P-12 ferries to meet increasing demand.
05:43We have around 10 P-12 vessels on the assembly line and there's quite a lot of challenges being
05:51the first time we're serial producing these boats.
05:54A lot of electrical assembly, a lot of mechanical assembly, a lot of communication through the boat.
05:59A vessel is leaving every month at the moment and we are scaling the production to be leaving every two
06:04weeks.
06:07And interest is rising, with 65 orders including from India, Thailand, the Maldives, Saudi Arabia or the US.
06:17Candela recently secured a contract for 20 ferries with a major operator in Norway, the world's largest electric hydrofoil fleet
06:25order so far.
06:27Yet Europe is the company's slowest customer.
06:32It takes a long time to get this type of transition to a new technology in Europe.
06:37You need long political processes and then you have public tendering processes that can be terribly slow.
06:43We see strong growth in Asia.
06:46We also see good sales in the US but weaker in Europe so far.
06:52Talks, however, are ongoing with several European countries.
06:55A Berlin-based operator has already bought a P-12 commuter ferry.
07:01Candela now has broader ambitions.
07:03It plans to increase staff from 250 to 1,000 people, open a new factory in Poland and scale up
07:10production to 50 boats a year.
07:12We see a strong demand throughout the world and I don't think we have seen more than a percent of
07:18it yet.
07:19There is tremendous potential to scale this globally.
07:22And I think it's important to see that the waterways are the oldest way of transport in Europe and elsewhere
07:30in the world.
07:31And now we have a way to get back to that in a new way.
07:35And I think also that compared to going by bus or by car, going by boat makes people happy.
07:40Yeah, I think soon we're going to see thousands of the ferries throughout the world.
07:46So whatever city you get to, you're going to get tired of finding candelas also there.
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