Electric propulsion is progressively making its mark in the automobile sector, and it was foreseeable that the marine industry would come to follow this trend. While many multihull manufacturers already offer zero-emissions motors, the next step was to shift up into mass production... This is now being achieved, as we saw at the Cannes Yachting Festival, where the very first Aura 51 Smart Electric was on display.
Infos pratiques
- Le chantier : Aura 51 ODSea
- La fiche technique
-
Découvrez notre vidéo exclusive
- Financez votre Aura 51 Smart Electric
- Assuez votre Aura 51 Smart Electric
- Articles autour du Aura 51 Smart Electric
Test location: La Rochelle, France Conditions: 6 to 10 knots of westerly wind, slight sea This particular catamaran is one that we discovered as a preview in La Rochelle a few months ago, so it was already familiar to us. It had lived its first life as a prototype in the internal combustion engine version, in order to obtain all the necessary approvals as soon as possible. Immediately after the photo shoot organized last spring off the Glénans islands in Brittany and our test in La Rochelle - see MW184, the Aura 51 #1 came back to the shipyard to undergo a kind of transformation - switching fr…
