MobiCat
MobiCat is an electrically powered passenger catamaran operated by the Swiss Lake Biel shipping company. It gets its drive energy from solar energy . The watercraft was launched in July 2001 and has been operating on Lake Biel since then .
The project was carried out by Mont-Soleil , BKW FMB Energie AG , the SolarCat engineering association (project development), Bielersee Schifffahrtsgesellschaft AG (operator), Swiss Mobiliar Insurance Company (namesake) and Certina Kurth Frères SA .
Technical specifications
- Length: 33 m
- Width: 11.8 m
- Height: 5 m
- Action radius: 120–170 km
- Net weight: 100 t
- Battery mass: 2 × 5000 kg
- Surface of the solar cells: 180 m²
- Solar cell output: 20 kWp
- Draft when fully loaded: 1.5 m
- Top speed: 22 km / h
- Cruising speed: 14 km / h
- Drive: 2 electric motors each 81 kW,
- Capacity (total / covered): 150/80 passengers