Hinckley Dasher: The World's First Luxury Electric Speedboat

First, we mean in this sense that Hinckley's Dasher speedboat was designed from the ground up with the intention of being a complete, luxury electric boat. There is a difference if we have an already developed vessel in which only the drive is changed, or if we imagine an electrically driven luxury at the very beginning of planning and create the final product around this idea.

Hinckley's it was almost sailing between us 90 years. During this time, she created the company high reputation among lovers luxury vessels. Their newest speedboat Dasher represents a completely new product that was needed a lot of planning and clever search for solutions. One of the solutions is certainly the use of modern, light materials. At 2950 kilograms is Dasher Hinckley's the lightest vessel. They used it for the hull and the rest of the surface of the speedboat carbon fiber, which in addition to weight added extraordinary hull strength. Teak wood is almost Hinckley's trademark, but they had to give it up this time. Just because of the weight, of course. She replaced him artificial mass, hand painted into imitation wood and between it and real teak at first glance impossible to tell the difference.

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They take care of the Dasher's drive two Deep Blue 80i 1800 electric motors, each with 80 horsepower. The engine is manufactured by a German company Torqeedo, and drives each one battery with 40 kWh, taken from car BMW i3. Batteries allow approx 60 kilometers reach at a speed of approx 16 km/h. If you want to be faster, ie. between 30 and 40 km/h, the distance will be reduced to 40 kilometers. So that there is no confusion about the amount of energy, the central touch screen is adapted to this, as it constantly monitors the ratio of power and remaining energy. Thus, the fear of an empty battery will be completely redundant.

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The advantage of electric vessels over electric cars is also that the infrastructure in marinas is already in place. Dasher needs to charge its batteries only 4 hours, if we connect it to 50 amp line. Hinckley's Dasher will find its customers mainly in Europe, where there are many lakes with an internal combustion engine prohibited. And the price? It's not exactly cheap, as all this technology costs something, and therefore the Dasher has to be shelled out around half a million US dollars.