---
title: "The World’s First All-Electric Yacht Has a 40-Mile Range and a $500,000 Price Tag"
description: "Veteran boatmaker Hinckley Co. has just unveiled the world's first fully electric luxury yacht: Dasher. Using its battery-powered twin electric motors, the yacht is reportedly capable of reaching speeds up to 27 miles per hour with a range of 40 miles."
date: "2017-09-18"
modified: "2017-09-18"
authors:
  - name: "Dom Galeon"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/domgaleon"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-worlds-first-all-electric-yacht-has-a-40-mile-range-and-a-500000-price-tag"
categories:
  - "Energy"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "clean energy"
  - "dasher"
  - "electric boat"
  - "electric vehicles"
---

# The World’s First All-Electric Yacht Has a 40-Mile Range and a $500,000 Price Tag

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/090817_Hinckley_CC_1_Overall25342-v1.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: \<a href="http://www.hinckleyyachts.com/models/dasher/dasher/" target="\_blank"\>Hinkley Yachts \</a\>\</em\>*

## The Future Is Here

On Thursday, 90-year-old boatmaker [Hinckley Company](<http://www.hinckleyyachts.com/>) unveiled Dasher — the world's first fully electric luxury yacht — at the [47th Newport International Boat Show](<https://www.discovernewport.org/event/47th-annual-newport-international-boat-show/60723/>). Nicknamed after Hinckley's first "picnic style" boat, the 8.69-meter (28.5-foot) long, fully electric vessel represents the next generation of passenger water vehicles. Clearly, we've come a long way from oars and sails, to coal and gas, to powerful electric motors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsbJvFvctpU&feature=youtu.be

“This isn’t just an existing design, where we dropped a couple of electric motors in,” Scott Bryant, director of new product development at Hinckley Co., [told ](<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-14/hinckley-yachts-unveils-world-s-first-fully-electric-luxury-boat?cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social>)*[Bloomberg](<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-14/hinckley-yachts-unveils-world-s-first-fully-electric-luxury-boat?cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social>)*. “The boat has been designed, ground up, for electric propulsion.”

![electric vehicles electric boat dasher clean energy](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Featured-Image.jpg>)
*Image Credit: Hinckley Co.*

Packed with twin 80-hp electric motors powered by BMW's 40-kilowatt-hour i3 waterproof lithium-ion batteries, rechargeable via a dual 50-Amp dock, Dasher is the lightest boat Hinckley has ever made: barely 2,950 kilograms (6,500 pounds).

In terms of price, though, it's not so light. Cost estimates run up to $500,000 — it *is* a luxury yacht, after all.

## Setting the Standard

As the first all-electric luxury yacht, some are calling Dasher "[the Tesla of luxury electric yachts](<http://fortune.com/2017/09/15/electric-luxury-yachts/>)," and it certainly is expected to make a splash.

The vessel promises a performance worthy of any seafarer, boasting a cruising speed of around 8.6 knots \[16 kph (10 mph)\] and a range of about 35 nautical miles (NM) \[64 kilometers (40 miles)\]. Dasher can travel up to 22 NM \[40 kilometers (25 miles)\] at speeds of 15.6 to 23.5 knots \[29 to 43.5 kph (18 to 27 mph)\].

![electric vehicles electric boat dasher clean energy](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/090817_Hinckley_CC_2_Details25524_v2.jpg>)
*Image Credit: Hinckley Co.*

Though it's the first of its kind, Dasher isn't the only electric boat. The [Duffy 18 Snug Harbor](<https://duffyboats.com/boats/18-snug-harbor/>) is an electric vessel designed for casual cruising, while several companies have designed their own experimental or promotional high-speed electric boats. On the larger scale, China even has plans to build [an all-electric warship](<https://futurism.com/the-chinese-navy-has-unveiled-plans-for-a-futuristic-new-warship>).

![electric vehicles electric boat dasher clean energy](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Alset-Aft-View-R04-High-Res-8.jpg>)
*Image Credit: Hinckley Co.*

A future in which all boats (and land-based vehicles) are powered by electricity doesn't seem that far off, and Hinckley is excited to make that transition.

“I don’t believe that Dasher will be our only electric-propulsion product. I think what we’re looking to do is to incorporate a bunch of the features that we’re introducing on Dasher into our other products,” said Bryant. “There’s so much going on in the automotive space, and just in the energy-storage space right now, that to not be a part of it is just silly.”

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