Plugboats Newsletter March 16, 2025

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March 16, 2025

Welcome to the world of electric boats and boating. This is the newsletter that regular readers of the Plugboats website receive. If you find it informative, I hope you’ll sign up. I also hope you will explore Plugboats.com, which has a lot more to offer than the simple newsletter. It is the world’s only international website dedicated 100% to electric boats and boating and has all the latest news as well as electric motor buying guides, an international directory of over 800 electric boat suppliers and a marketplace of electric motors and boats for sale, rent and charter. I hope you enjoy the newsletter and invite you to sign up - FOR FREE - and / or discover more at Plugboats.com

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The winter boat show season is just about wrapped up, and in the next few articles in Plugboats and in the next newsletter I’ll be taking a look at some of the trends I saw at this year’s shows, along with some of the most interesting boats, motors and projects.

In the meantime, in this newsletter, a couple of podcast notes.

Note 1 is that this newsletter includes a link to a Plugboats Podcast with Tom Dowdell of Williams Jet Tenders and Josh Stoddard of EVOA Propulsion about electrifying the Williams EVOJet 7.0.

Note 2 is that some people have suggested that I do the newsletter as a podcast in addition to the written version so they can isten to it at work or on the eway to work (or wherever.) So I have done one up for this issue and we’ll see how it goes.

In other newsletter items:

  • Artemis Technologies has signed an MOU to have their US vessels built in the state of Washington

  • Rad Propulsion and Seavolt have teamed up to offer one-stop electrification down under

  • the Frauscher 740 Mirage Air is now powered by an Evoy Vita motor and

  • Rafael Nadel’s team won the second event of the 2025 E1 electric race series

Thanks for your support of Plugboats and I hope you enjoy the reading (and/or listening!.

Jeff Butler,
Editor / Publisher
Plugboats.com

TENDERS   |  JET MOTORS    

This Plugboats Podcast features a conversation at the world’s largest Boat Show in Düsseldorf, Germany, with Tom Dowdell, Head of Marketing for Williams Jet Tenders and Josh Stoddard, Head of Engineering at EVOA Propulsion, a US developer of high power electric boat drive systems that was contracted by Williams to do an all electric version of their EVOJET 70.

Listen to the podcast on: Apple  •  Amazon  •  Android  •  Spotify  •   iHeart Radio  •  Pandora  •  Stitcher

FERRIES   |  HYDROFOILING  | 

Double Gussies Award Winner Artemis Technologies is growing their US presence and opportunities with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Delta Marine for manufacturing electric hydrofoiling vessels specifically for Washington’s Puget Sound.

The advantage of an electric foiling ferry is that the energy required to move the vessel through the water is reduced by as much as 90%, no matter whether it is being propelled by combustion or electric motors. Electric propulsion offers the additional advantages of zero carbon and other noxious fume emissions, as well as drastically reduced maintenance costs.

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CHARGING   |  OUTBOARDS  |  AUSTRALIA

UK electric drive manufacturer RAD Propulsion has joined forces with the marine charging technology and network of Australia’s Seavolt’s to deliver complete electric propulsion solutions to boat manufacturers, marinas, ports, sporting organizations, and governments across Australia and the Pacific region.

Seavolt CEO Chris Cudlipp says “We’re getting constant enquiries from customers who want to electrify their fleets of outboard-powered boats. Seavolt provides a complete charging solution but no one in the market was offering plug-and-play electric power replacement that supported ultra-fast charging. RAD Propulsion delivers that.”

RECREATIONAL   |  DAYBOATS  |  INBOARDS  

Two world leaders in e-boating debuted their first collaboration – the Frauscher 740 Mirage Air powered by Evoy Vita – at Austria’s Tulin Boat Show last weekend.

A share of around 40% of all Frauscher boats sold in the last 5 years are electric, and Georg Frauscher, Head of Boatbuilding, says “Our collaboration with Evoy Vita is about more than a single boat—it’s about shaping the future of sustainable yachting. With strong demand across the European market, we see this as just the beginning of a long-term commitment to high-performance electric boating.”

COMPETITIONS   |  E1 SERIES  |  FOILING

In the second event of the second season of the E1 all-electric raceboat series, the team of tennis legend Rafael Nadal powered to its first-ever victory. The race course was set in and around the famed Pearl Island of Doha, Qatar – a man-made island with yacht-lined marinas, villas, towers, hotels, restaurants and boutiques.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the newsletter

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