New-Tech Europe Magazine | July 2017

Power Your House With The Solar Electric Boat During downtime, the vessel turns into a mobile power station, which is able to supply up to 15kVA for land based facilities. This means that solar catamaran is capable of providing energy for up to five households, even at the most remote places. For the first time communities in the Pacific, nature reserves and water bound resort can turn into self-sufficient eco-destinations, producing their own clean energy on the water and even use it on the land. Tesla on the water, SoelCat 12, SOEL YACHTS, mobile power station on the ocean, electric catamaran, electric boat company, solar electric naval architecture Monitor The Solar Yacht With Your Ipad Providing the passengers with a simple and easy to understand real time insight into the SoelCat 12’s systems is very important to Soel Yachts and Naval DC. The Naval UI monitoring, alarm & control system keeps all passengers on board informed about the most important system data, which makes the energy flows on board really easy to understand (just like in a Tesla) and thus educates people to drive the vessel more energy aware. All it takes is to connect your smart device (iPhone, iPad) to the SoelCat 12’s guest Wi-Fi. And while the captain can control the lights and various other systems via the Naval UI, guests on board are invited to connect with their smartphone to the vessel’s sound system and play their favourite music, wirelessly. The Naval UI also provides remote monitoring capabilities, so Naval DC can assist in providing system services, remotely. Transportation Made Easy The SoelCat 12 is the first viable solution for solar electric sailing available for a worldwide market. Engineered and designed as a smart modular vessel, the solar electric yacht can be disassembled and transported to any location at very low rates via two 40ft containers. This vessel not only allows for quieter, more pleasant rides and tours, it also provides comfort and higher speeds, without having to make any compromises on board!

Therefore, all our vessels are integrally designed from start to finish for and with electric propulsion and the specific duty cycle in mind.” With an installed battery capacity of 2 x 60 kWh, the SoelCat 12 standard operational profile is set to a cruising speed of 8 knots with a range of 6 hours solely running on battery power and a maximum speed of 14 knots. Once the sun starts to shine the vessel’s cruising speed of 8 knots is prolonged to 7.5 hours. Lowering the speed to the so-called ‘break- even speed’ at 6 knots results in a 24-hour range and this is even throughout the night when there is no energy harvest from the solar array.

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