Descripción del proyecto
Un hidrotaxi para el futuro
Ni autobuses ni tranvías, un taxi aliscafo podría ser el nuevo vehículo para escapar a los atascos. Imagine recorrer el río Sena en un buque pequeño, rápido y eficiente. Estas Burbujas marinas («SeaBubbles» tal y como se denomina en inglés) se explotarán como un servicio de taxi acuático. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos al cargo de la idea creará una red de estaciones de amarre donde cargar los buques y recoger y dejar pasajeros. Estas paradas producirán energía con paneles solares y turbinas hidrocinéticas para lograr su autonomía de la red. El objetivo es lograr la instalación para 2024 de SeaBubbles en más de cincuenta ciudades en todo el mundo con las que reducir los atascos y aprovechar mejor los canales poco utilizados.
Objetivo
Many of the cities in EU are badly congested. Congestion increases air pollution, leads to more traffic accidents & makes the cities less accessible to its dwellers.
A lot of cities were built and developed along some body of water—typically 30-40% of locations are within a 10 min walk from a river bank or canal. This creates an opportunity for water-based transport that was not exploited before due to low speeds of existing boats or high emissions of their diesel engines.
SeaBubbles are small, fast & very efficient electric hydrofoil craft that that can carry a driver & four passengers with a max speed of 30 km/h, while producing no emissions or noise. SeaBubbles are designed by the same world-class team has previously built the unique sailing hydrofoil trimaran that broke the speed sailing record in 2009.
SeaBubbles will be operated as a water taxi service, which requires a network of mooring stations for boarding/unboarding passengers and charging the vessels. These stations will produce electricity via solar panels & hydrokinetic turbines, with the goal to make them autonomous from the grid. SeaBubbles will carry passengers between two typical urban points 2x faster than a regular taxi and at a comparable price.
Our goal is to have 60+ SeaBubbles operating by the end of 2018, active in 2-3 cities globally, as well as 12+ docks, with a total electricity production of ~100 MWh and a CO2 annual reduction of ~300+ tons with revenues of €10m+. By 2024 we want to be in 50+ cities globally. Once successful, SeaBubbles will be creating jobs in vessel and mooring station manufacturing, hydrofoil craft driving as well as software development
SeaBubbles are supported by the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and received interest of other cities in EU, and positive media coverage from Bloomberg, The Telegraph, The Verge and many others.
In this Phase 2 project we will industrialize SeaBubbles and trial them is several cities in EU and in the world.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware development
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- social sciencessocial geographytransportpublic transport
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2
Régimen de financiación
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinador
75008 PARIS
Francia
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.