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Stockholm To Soon Sail Into Green Future With First Autonomous Fully-Electric Ferry

25 Apr 2023 | Abstracted from Design Taxi

"Zeam is an autonomous, fully electric passenger ferry that will soon be speeding through the canals of Stockholm...a sleek 39-foot-long catamaran designed to carry up to 25 passengers at a time. The ferry will have 15 hours of continuous electric power each day.

"...goal is to control the vessel solely from the control room, allowing for greater efficiency and safety...it will be operating between the islands of Kungsholmen and Soder Mellarstrand in Stockholm."

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