"When Gustav Hasselskog founded Candela in 2014 with the intention of…

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"When Gustav Hasselskog founded Candela in 2014 with the intention of creating an electric boat matching the range and speed of a gas burner, he knew it would be challenging. So he put together a crack team of people with backgrounds in hydrodynamics (with 6 America’s Cup wins), flight control electronics, structural composite engineering and the software used for dynamic modelling.
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...in late 2016 [Candela] completed and tested a 7.5 metre prototype that achieved a range of 50 nautical miles per charge running at a speed of 25 knots – comparing favourably to ICE boats of similar size."

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