{"id":10305,"date":"2025-02-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/?p=10305"},"modified":"2025-02-14T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T07:34:14","slug":"australias-first-high-powered-luxury-electric-carbon-fibre-yacht-is-about-to-be-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/latest-news\/archives\/10305","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s first high-powered luxury electric carbon fibre yacht is about to be built"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Riding a wave of global confidence and investment in electric propulsion, Australia&#8217;s first electric yacht, the Genevo E8, is about to start construction. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10283\" style=\"width:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1-8.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1-8-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genevo has been accepted into the Australian government&#8217;s Industry Growth Plan, validating the development of the project. Once the target number is reached, construction of prototype ships will begin.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10285\" style=\"width:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2-8.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2-8-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A full-spec release of the Genevo E8 is likely to cost around $450,000 and includes a 1kw solar PV system on the ceiling, a cork deck, a 400kW electric motor and a 132kWh battery. According to its designers, the E8 can reach a top speed of more than 30 knots and has a range of about 45 nautical miles at 10 to 15 knots. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10287\" style=\"width:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3-7.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3-7-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fast charge takes only 2 hours, or one night at home, and the ship owner can choose to charge it on the bus charging post.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10289\" style=\"width:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4-7.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4-7-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reg.boatshowchina.com\/en\/user\/register?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=CIBe&amp;utm_campaign=article20241126\">Click here for visitor registration<\/a><\/strong><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riding a wave of global confidence and investment in electric propulsion, Australia&#8217;s first electric yacht, the Genevo E8, is about to start construction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":10283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10308,"href":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions\/10308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boatshowchina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}