Electric sailing Barcelona The Electric Sailing Barcelona project started in 2016 with a 5 step Electrical BLDC sailboat motor program and now almost two years later we are proud to tell you that we will start operating this year with electric sailing out of port Olimpic in Barcelona. We designed and made a prototype for …
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Best electric drive system for sailboats
Criteria for best electric drive system for sailboats In our first blog on electric sailboat conversion we described our initial criteria for an electrical drive system. First of all we want to reduce the drag. In addition we want to use the propeller for regeneration of the batteries. Regeneration of electricity under sail is the …
Four options for electric drive propulsion sailboat
Installing electric drive propulsion Currently electric drive propulsion is a hot topic for both cars and boats because electric drive propulsion is a clean and sustainable solution for the future. For BarcelonaSail the conversion to electric drive propulsion presents particularly challenging questions, such as, maintenance, costs, drag, autonomy and additional holes in boat hull. Electric …
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Electric BLDC Sailboat Motor
BarcelonaSail goes electric with a new Electric BLDC sailboat motor for our sail boats. The design for Samba’s electric BLDC sailboat motor is revolutionary. Barcelonasail will design and build the electrical sailboat propulsion system from the ground up. Electric BLDC motors BLDC stands for Brush-Less Direct Current. Electric BLDC motors are synchronous motors. Those motors …