Two Swedish electric mobility companies are teaming up in the first ever battery deal between an electric car company and an electric boat maker. Polestar’s powerplants will find their way into two models of Candela’s flying electric boats, marking an industry first.
The Candela C-8 as well as the recently announced Candela P-8 Voyager will both receive the new Polestar batteries and charging systems.
The deal gives Candela access to Polestar’s state-of-the-art automotive batteries designed for electric cars. Most electric boat builders rely on specialty boutique manufacturers of marine batteries, but Candela will now be able to leverage Polestar’s expertise to reduce costs and increase production.
Candela and Polestar together hinted at future developments from a broader partnership, saying that this was just the beginning and that they were “committed to exploring further opportunities for future collaboration.”
Candela began production of its C-8 electric boats earlier this year. Now the newly announced Polestar deal is expected to drastically speed up that production as well as help the company lower prices in the future.
As Candela’s CEO and founder Gustav Hasselskog explained: “To make electric boats mainstream, we need to build thousands of boats every year. Working together with Polestar, we’re able to bring the scale of production and world class engineering from the automotive industry to the marine sector.”
Candela’s electric boats already differ significantly from the few other electric boat options on the market by more efficiently using the energy stored in on-board batteries.
