Give or treat yourself to a subscription to Boats in Motion print + digital and for only 39 euros a year you get the magazine at home plus read it on your PC, smartphone and tablet. With a sea of advantages.
On Lake Como for 248 years there has been a small Ernesto Riva shipyard that in recent years has taken up a great challenge, to build wooden boats, handmade, totally electric.
The first was Ernesto, the handmade boat that goes to 25 knots without using gasoline, now comes Elettra, an electric vapor 9.90 meters long and 2.75 meters wide that sails at a cruising speed of 13 knots with a maximum of 25 knots.
Elettra, from the name of the laboratory ship of Guglielmo Marconi, inherits the lines from the boats of the early twentieth century with a project designed together with ER Innovation, a company of the Ernesto Riva group, which implements projects for the development of electric mobility in the nautical sector.
Deep studies have led to the development of water lines for electric navigation, combined with suitable motors and battery packs. The technological partner of the project, with international experience in many sectors of electric mobility, is the Swiss company Ecovolta (also in this case a significant name for Como, home of Alessandro Volta).
With two electric motors, a length of almost 10 meters, a capacity of 12 people and an autonomy of at least 5 hours at 13 knots.
The two engines are Brushless 100 kW each with two sets of batteries Ecovolta 600V and 90Kw each. The main objective of Daniele Riva, owner of the company, who leads all operations, is to demonstrate how Lake Como can support tourism with boats that respect and enhance the environment.
Daniele Riva’s company has been building hand-finished wooden boats since 1771 and has decided to relaunch one of the most classic models of its production, the vaporina, transforming it into the first example of an electric boat on Lake Como used for charter with a captain.
Sign up for our Newsletter
Powerboats, its stories, from small open to motoryachts. Sign up now for our free newsletter and receive the best news selected by the editorial staff each week. Enter your email below, agree to the Privacy Policy and click the “sign me up” button.
A tribute to the companies and people who have made Barche a Motore great over these 35 years allowing it to be born, grow, and become great up to this historic anniversary. In these articles the great excellences of
60 hours of sailing, with a 60 hp Suzuki Marine at the stern on a (roughly) 6-meter dinghy and two teams of 6 people to compete. Thus chose Suzuki Italia to celebrate 60 years of history of the “aquatic” branch
A tribute to the companies and people who have made Barche a Motore great over these 35 years allowing it to be born, grow, and become great up to this historic anniversary. In these articles the great excellences of boating
Ready to fill up with hydrogen? Maybe not everyone, but someone soon might be! Out of an agreement between MED Group and TESYA Group, H1 was born. What is it? It’s a hydrogen-powered tender, completely Made in Italy, designed to
Barche a Motore is the magazine born in 1990, and for this milestone we did a special issue, with a never-seen-before cover, and over 200 pages of history of motors on the water in Italy.
It is a unique opportunity, a collector’s item.
Subscribe now and get it for free, but only until July 31!
Send us your sea photos and enter history with us! Your pictures will be featured on our “bulletin board” immediately.
