Candela

Candela  builds electric boats and vessels. Their applied hydrofoil technology enables people to explore the planet’s beautiful waterways without harming and polluting these fragile ecosystems. Candela's purpose is to contribute to speeding up the transition to fossil fuel-free lakes and oceans by rethinking efficiency in marine transportation to radically improve the performance boundaries of electric boats and ships. Candela's mission is to make an electric boat with better performance than that of fossil fuel boats.

To achieve this, Candela has gathered together a task force consisting of some of the world’s leading experts within relevant areas such as dynamic modelling. In 2020, the Candela C-7 became the best-selling electric boat in Europe. This first no-compromise electric boat - fast, with a long-range, and fun to drive - is 95% cheaper to operate than fossil fuelled boats. It is also totally silent, and doesn’t create any wake.

Cutting emissions from shipping is a key to realising the UN sustainability goals of reaching zero net emissions by 2050. As such CANDELA has an interest in continuously contributing to the development of tools and methods for this purpose, and is therefore collaborating with KTH and PDC on numerical simulations within the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

For questions about this or other PDC business partnerships please contact business-unit@pdc.kth.se .