I Tested Navier's Flying Electric Boat

3 2 [Music] 1 this is a flying electric boat and it's solving two major problems seasickness and traffic the biggest problem with boat travel is people get sick while traveling and with this boat you get that smooth even ride because the boat uses Hydro foil to lift itself up in the air 4 ft and you don't feel the wave and secondly it's solving traffic because our highways are jam-packed and now this boat wants to move the people around at the same cost convenience and speed as cars they're doing it already 11 months into production the boat is already out there they just closed the partnership with stripe and they're going to be commuting stripe employees literally like in half the time the price sack on this boat half a million more like 550k but I see a lot of value in that and it's electric and you're getting the most amount of range the longest range out of any boat ever made for an electric boat you're getting this beautiful aesthetic looking boat isn't that beautiful we are going to take this boat on a test drive I'm going to be driving it too and we're going to get a sick drone shot actually showing you guys closeup of how it takes off and how it lands all right guys we got Sam Cedar head of operations of navier the flying electric boat company and I'm going to ask Sam a bunch of questions about how this Boat Works why is this boat electric like let's start from first principles right why did you guys choose to make it an electric boat was it the environment was it emissions like what was the reason you chose electric yeah it's a combination of everything so the world's moving to Electric it's happening on the road it's happening in the air it's going to happen on the water the problem is you can't create an electric boat in the normal boat sense a traditional boat of this size about 30 ft gets one maybe 2 m per gallon when you shift that from gas to electric doesn't change that much you're still dragging a huge heavy bathtub to the water so the only way to really get an electric boat to have a meaningful amount of range to be able meaningful amount of at speed that is you need to put the boat on hydro foils these tank that you see attached to the bottom of the boat hydrofoils will actually lift the hull out of the water and the boat gets like 3 to 4 feet above water they kind of work similarly like a airplane wing and that's how they take off however in this case the hydro Falls used in boats are much smaller because the density of water is much higher than density of air that's why less pressure is required so it's the combination of Cheaper Computing technology improved Battery Technology improved material technology that's allowed us to bring all that together to create the world's most advanced electric flying boat how is it compared to a regular boat like is it more faster more efficient in terms of energy can you talk more about that yeah absolutely so it's about 90% more efficient than traditional gas boat of this size so we're best way to think about it is tral boat gets 1 maybe 2 m per gallon we have no gas on board but get the equivalent of about 30 m per gallon so this boat has the energy equivalent in gas of 2 gallons of gas and with that we're able to go about 75 nautical miles about 86 regular miles so welcome to the most advanced electric Hydro foil boat in the boat of the future so this is our flight control screen here so this looks like an airplane once again because this is a flying boat so you have your horizon line right here you can see as we're bouncing up and down in the water that's moving a little bit this is how fast we're going this is how high we're out of the water our engine RPMs are heading what each of our Rudders is doing what each of our flaps is doing uh and so on so this is our flight control screen I'm personally a pilot we built this screen to look like an airplane and manav is going to Now show us how it's done we have an entirely different design we call it Canard configuration so much more resembles a there we have three wings and each of those wings has an alun on them and each of those Al runs move at 50 times per second so we do what's called a coordinated turn where we match our bank angle so our aerons with our Rudders to create a coordinated turn so at no point is the we call an airplane turn coordinated ter so the boat at all points is perfectly coordinated coming through the turns and you'll see today when we do some steep 20 30 degree banking turns that you feel an incredible amount of control throughout all those turns and with that it's an important thing to note with the aviation background there's no single point of failure in this entire boat so any single system on this boat can fail and the boat can continue flying in most cases and if not it can return you to shore myself I'm a pilot as well as commercial captain and for me it's very important to get home in a car on the road you can stop the car and get out and walk away in a boat you don't always have that same luxury that's why you see there's two Motors two batteries two controllers two screens three foils each of those aons one of those aons can be unplugged and the bow can still be able to foil there's a big problem with range anxiety you know with cars and similarly with boats and I read that navier has the highest range in terms of electric boats can talk about that how did you guys achieve the highest range yeah absolutely so we we're the longest range electric Hy flow boat in the world our next version will be announcing soon uh we'll be breaking the 100 mile Mark uh which is a milestone within the world of electric boats and hydro Falls we're able to do that through Partnerships with our Naval architect so Paul Beaker is our naal architect who designed America's Cup foils before he was on Larry Ellison's team that won the America's Cup he's designed the naval architecture of this boat him and his team and so we've been able to have really the best of the best when it comes to foil design and then on our technical team we have some pretty found the company was an ASA rocket scientist before as well as a PhD from MIT and then we also have Kenny Jensen who's our CTO and he previously designed drone systems and so drones in the air are similar from a flight control perspective to how this boat operates and so he's been able to take all his learnings for decades in that space to apply those to the boat so when you bring all that together you have a really strong Aeronautical Engineering team as well as a marine and Naval architecture team and you bring all that together and you have the most advanced flying boat in the world while this is a very complicated and intricate boat it's actually the easiest boat in the world to drive so you have a joystick system on your on your right side there and we'll show you that when we go into the dock later on how that works all you're doov is you're going to click both those throttles forward both together together click both sorry slow slowly slowly slowly I got too much power sorry slowly so Advance them slowly two F you'll go all the way down but you'll do it in a controll pan there you go slowly Advance all the way down straighten out your throttle here straighten out your steering wheel there you go keep advancing It Forward keep advancing it forward a little bit more you'll go all the way down but there you go keep going keep going keep going all the way down perfect a little bit more perfect so now you're watching your air speed right here so there's 12 knots right there so it'll pick up here at 16 so you're there you go you're up and you're flying so does it automatically goes up yeah everything everything's done automatically one second all right go for it keep you a little more throttle Perfect all right right there is good yeah cool so you're flying can we do a little yeah you can give it get it some a little turn left yeah my speed limiter is not limiting you so I'm just adjust your throttle H you're good there you go yeah so it's uh damn that's so so easy so smooth and so easy it's like a roll choice you know don't even feel it a little more power just a little bit there you go and so we'll lo give a good left turn here we'll loop back uh okay you can stay on throttle and then give a nice big bank and left turn here what's the direction back uh you're you're going that way so you see uh but follow that follow that line right there so where are we you're right there so you got it see it right now you're pointing up yeah a little more right perfect you're real Captain now hell yeah this was hands down the smoothest and quietest B Rider I've ever had it feels like Rolls-Royce on water you know because it completely eliminates the motion sickness when you're in the water cuz you don't feel the chop what's the business model behind kavier who's ideal Customer kavier because a you could either go likeit sell directly to Boat Owners you guys just had a collab with strike where you're providing the commute like a shuttle for their employees so how do you guys see the business model behind this company yeah absolutely so we have three different parts of our business we have nav Mobility which as you mentioned is strip Partnerships do corporate Partnerships we'll be announcing more soon where we run taxi service both public as well as private we have defense contracts I can't say more on it we work with Department of Defense on certain projects and then we have Recreation so we sell boats to individuals so you want to use them for recreational purposes they out their family their friends and so on and can people pre-order right now yes we're actually fully in production so our first deliveries are early this summer happening in a couple months um they're sold out for the rest of this year and there's deliveries into next year so people are able to purchase and buy them today I just tested the autonomous car by wayo and you know there is this movement of with autonomous everything so can you talk a little bit about how autonomous you guys will be and how autonomous are you guys today correct yeah so absolutely autonomy is the way of the future that's where the world is moving that's where the world needs to move in order if you look around us the Waterway is completely empty there's not a single boat in site that I can see that's moving versus you have a bridge right over there that is full of traffic so in order to be able to utilize the waterways as a really meaningful and efficient form of transportation you need to be able to have more captains in the water and you also need to be able to have fleets of autonomous boats so right now we have autonomous docking the boat can fully dock itself and we're working towards full autonomy where the boat can go point to point only oncap and with active collision avoidance and right now the coolest thing you can see is Sam who's the head of operations he's parking the boat and the boat can actually Park sideways and it has autonomous parking so you can see the boat is literally moving sideways so that's freaking crazy and is there a weight capacity to how Max weight you can take on these boats like this boat how many people can it sit so this is an 8 to 10 passenger boat it could be 12 passengers depending on it's outfitted there's no limitation there's a practical limitation on how big You' want to get build vessels that are bigger and bigger to be able to be similar to The Standard fairies that exist today one of the things you said on the website is you want to turn waterways into freeways but at the same cost speed and convenience of land how close are we to that so we're actually there we're actually better than that this boat as I mentioned before gets around that 30 m per gallon Mark I'm moving six people so for the same cost being convenience as a land borne option or better you can now move on the water because the Navia boats and this all goes back to the idea that coastal cities were built on the water so half the population lives in your coastal cities and live in those cities because civilization was built around the water people used to use the water as the main form of transportation fast forward and gas car came along and then it became 10 times more expensive to operate a boat versus a gas vehicle and everybody left the water so that's why you have Waterfront infrastructure that exists in all these cities but nobody's using the boats the Waterway as you look around us and you'll see today there's nobody on the water it's completely empty yet all the bridges and tunnels in near CA cities are overcrowded and there's traffic so were able to do with our boats is as you mentioned the same cost be inconvenience as Landor option for free and I really enjoy it and it's a passion of mine so I'll do it and thank you for watching again I'll see you in the next video