Speed
- Cruising speed25 kn
- Top speednot published

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Candela-P-12-Business-Fast-Electric-Sustainable — Candela
* A standard reference image, not the actual boat — shown to help visualise this model's published dimensions.
From the published figures: day boat · LOA 11.99 m
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What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.
Total engine power per tonne of published displacement — more means livelier acceleration for the hull. Drawn for motor yachts.
not published: engine power, displacement
Figures read fromcandela.com/pro-series/p-12-business/· Technical specificationsread 10/18/2026
Premium production
Swedish builder of electric hydrofoil boats founded in Stockholm in 2014 — the 8.5-metre C-8 leisure boat and the 12-metre P-12 in Voyager and Business versions, flying on computer-controlled carbon-fibre foils driven by its own C-Pod electric motors.
Candela traces itself to 2014, when its founder Gustav Hasselskog set out to answer a simple question: why can't electric boats be better than fossil-fuel ones? The first boat, the C-7, needed five years of research and development on the control system, because an electric hydrofoil boat is inherently unstable and can only fly if a computer keeps adjusting the foils; Hasselskog calls the first flight magical. The company describes itself as designed and made in Sweden, with a team of more than 200 people from over 20 nationalities working in hydrodynamics, control theory, machine learning and structural engineering. Its stated mission is to eliminate fossil fuels from lakes and oceans, and its latest step is the P-12, which it calls the world's first long-range, high-speed electric hydrofoil ferry; the P-12 'Nova' is already in service in Stockholm.
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