Voltari Set to Deliver 740HP Speed Boat

Voltari's latest creation, a 26-foot electric performance boat, is set to reach customer hands later this year.

The electric car industry is incredibly competitive. In the crossover sector, Tesla, Ford, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Kia, and more are all fighting for market share. But the electric marine industry is different. Almost every entry that's soon to be released to the public tends to target an entirely unique target audience. 

One of these electric boat manufacturers, Voltari Marine Electric, specializes in performance boating with its upcoming Voltari 260. The 260 is a fully-electric performance boat, pushing 740 horsepower and powered by a massive 142kWh battery pack. For a car comparison, Voltari's boat makes around as much horsepower as a Porsche Taycan Turbo S and houses a battery similar in size to that of an Extended Range Ford F-150 Lightning. 

But unlike propulsion on the road, boats create massive amounts of friction, requiring lots of energy to keep a constant cruising speed. While an electric car might only continuously draw 15kW of electricity at 60mph, an electric boat may draw several hundred kWs at the same speed. This makes building an electric boat especially tricky. "A boat is so inherently inefficient, operating in hydrodynamic state versus aerodynamic state, that we're always looking for ways to improve efficiency and power-to-weight ratio," says Cam Heaps, CEO of Voltari.