Plugboats Newsletter October 13, 2025

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October 13, 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 900 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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ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO »» NOMINATE A BOAT IN THE GUSSIES ELECTRIC BOAT AWARDS

In other news:

  • Kow Kood, an eco-sensitive Thai island, will soon be serviced by the all-electric hydrofoiling ferries of Candela

  • Aqua superPower has installed a high speed marine charger in Genoa, Italy to anchor the world’s longest electrified coastal waterway

  • Helios Marine has built their business to address the five profiles they have identified of electric boat buyers

  • The E1 Series held Africa’s first electric speedboat race last week, which sets up a virtual three-way tie for first going into the season’s finale and

  • German performance boat builder Sterk will be unveiling the first production featuring a twin system of 180-e electric outboards from Vision Marine Technologies

Thanks for your support of Plugboats and I hope you enjoy this newsletter.

Jeff Butler,
Editor / Publisher
Plugboats.com

CATEGORY   |  CATEGORY  |  CATEGORY

Anyone – boat builder, motor company, engineer, naval architect, member of the public – can nominate a boat for the 6th annual Gustave Trouvé Electric Boat Awards, but you have to do it before Sunday, October 19 at Midnight Eastern Time (UTC -5). The International Judging Panel will then decide the Finalists and Public Voting begins October 27, 2025.

FERRIES | WATERTAXIS | HYRDOFOILING

In an agreement signed during Thailand’s recent SX Sustainability Expo, 10 Candela electric flying ferries have been ordered by Thai sea transport company Seudamgo to operate on a route between the mainland and Koh Kood in Trat province.

CHARGING   |  MARINAS  

With the addition of a new Aqua superPower marine fast charger at Marina Genova in the Port of Genoa, the world’s longest electrified coastline spans a distance of about 300 km / 185 miles along the Mediterranean Sea, from Genoa to St. Tropez.

RECREATIONAL   |  COMMERCIAL  |  BATTERIES | SOFTWARE  

Brothers Drago and Dimitar Enchevi grew up boating on the Black Sea. Their father was a captain, and his father before him. But when the latest generation started thinking about buying a yacht themselves, it started a journey that would have them looking to the future of boating, not the past.

COMPETITIONS   |  HYDROFOILING 

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RECREATIONAL   |  OUTBOARDS 

German performance boatbuilder Stern Yachts is going electric – working with Vision Marine Technologies on an optimized version of their Sterk 31 that will be powered by a dual E-Motion 180E electric powertrain system.

This marks the first dual application of Vision Marine’s system and is the result of a joint effort by the engineering teams of both companies. The Sterk 31e will be revealed in-water at the Bahia Mar G Dock of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS) October 29 to November 2.

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