00:10Bom, eu estou em um boate que está literalmente voando sobre a surface de água.
00:16É um sentimento muito incrível, e é a ideia de uma empresa que quer revolucionar o transporte de água.
00:30Nós estamos em Stockholm, a capital de Svédia. Sistindo em 14 islões, é também chamado de Vênice do norte.
00:39É onde estes únicos voos foram desenvolvidos por uma startup de uma empresa com um plano de mudança para mudar
00:44os livros de camadas no mundo.
00:48Olá, meu nome é Mikael Malberg. Bem-vindos ao Candela, em Stockholm.
00:53Nós construímos o primeiro ferro de hidrofoil ferro aqui.
00:57Nós temos um departamento de sales, legal e procuramento.
01:05Nós temos cerca de 60 engenheiros no Candela.
01:08E nós produzimos um vessel por dois meses.
01:14Set em porto de Frihamnen, em central de Stockholm,
01:18Candela tem construído sua própria testa para suas eletrically-paradas boas.
01:22A empresa foi fundada em 2014 por esse homem, um engenheiro.
01:29Meu nome é Gustav Hasselsgog. Eu sou o founder e CEO do Candela.
01:34E aqui nós temos o primeiro protótipo do Ferry P-12.
01:38Nós colocamos isso em água quase três anos atrás.
01:41Desde então, nós construímos muitas boas.
01:44Então, vamos lá.
01:45Vamos lá.
01:50Vamos lá.
01:59Vamos lá.
02:01Agora com 7 metros de velocidade, nós vamos colocar a força de 17 metros, e então ela levanta sobre a
02:08água e voar em 25 metros, 30 centímetros sobre a água e com a consumo de 9 quilowatts por nautical
02:22milho,
02:22e isso é 1 dólar de combustível de energia. Quando nós levantamos a voa, a drag da água reduzir 80
02:32% a 85%.
02:34Nós charmos a voa totalmente em aproximadamente 1 hora. Nós podemos driva normalmente 40 nautical milho, e nós podemos ter
02:4030 passagens.
02:42Uma das mais impressionantes que você pode ver é que você não tem quase nada de água para a voa.
02:47Nós não bramos muita energia, criando grandes mudanças em direção da água.
02:52Quando você pode reduzir a energia de consumo, e nós reduzimos com algo de 80%,
02:59nós também temos muito de custos de combustível.
03:02Então, isso significa que operando esse tipo de ferro é melhor do que operando tradicionais, velhos, de ferro.
03:08Ferry traffic consumes something like 15 times more fuel per seat, ou per quilometre seat,
03:15than if you go by a city bus.
03:17So, 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 P-12 shuttle started operating in late 2024 on a 15-kilometre route
03:40linking the Ekerö suburb and central Stockholm.
03:44Compared to traditional ferries, travel time was reduced by half,
03:48and 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 P-12 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.
04:24I just go full speed, like this.
04:29And then the boat will automatically turn off.
04:32So, we're approaching a speed of 70 knots here,
04:36and 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 seasickness.
04:44The greatest benefit of this technology
04:47is that it's really a better experience.
04:50I 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,
04:57because 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.
05:44We have around 10 P-12 vessels on the assembly line,
05:49and there's quite a lot of challenges,
05:51being the first time we're serial-produced in these boats.
05:54A lot of electrical assembly, a lot of mechanical assembly,
05:57a lot of communication through the boat.
05:59Our vessel is leaving every month at the moment,
06:01and we are scaling the production to be leaving every two weeks.
06:07And interest is rising, with 65 orders, including from India, Thailand, the Maldives,
06:14Saudi Arabia, or the U.S.
06:17Candela recently secured a contract for 20 ferries with a major operator in Norway,
06:22the world's largest electric hydrofoil fleet order so far.
06:27Yet Europe is the company's slowest customer.
06:31It takes a long time to get this type of transition to a new technology in Europe.
06:37You need long political processes,
06:39and 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 U.S., but weaker in Europe so far.
06:52Talks, however, are ongoing with several European countries.
06:56A 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,
07:08open a new factory in Poland,
07:09and scale up production to 50 boats a year.
07:12We see a strong demand throughout the world,
07:15and I don't think we have seen more than a percent of it 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
07:29and elsewhere in 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,
07:38going by boat makes people happy.
07:40Yeah, I think soon we're going to see thousands of the ferries throughout the world,
07:45so whatever city you get to,
07:47you're going to get tired of finding Candelas also there.
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