Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
It looks like a gimmick from a James Bond film, but it’s 100% real. Candela, a company based in Stockholm, is making fully-electric hydrofoil ferries that float not on but above the water. But…why?
#hydrofoil #electricboat #PlanetA
Credits:
Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Camera: Marco Borowski
Video Editor: Neven Hillebrands
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer, Adam Baheej Adada
Factcheck: Jeannette Cwienk
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Read More:
Stockholm trial final report (mainly in Swedish):
diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2035543/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Full book about hydrofoils from 1990:
foils.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ShipsThatFly.pdf
Physics of hydrofoiling:
https://web.mit.edu/2.972/www/reports/hydrofoil/hydrofoil.html
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. We'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
Follow Planet A on TikTok: tiktok.com/@dw_planet
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:56 Meeting Candela
02:09 Shipping's battery problem
03:14 Taking off
06:23 Back on land
08:56 The hydrofoil factory
12:53 Hydrofoils' potential
It looks like a gimmick from a James Bond film, but it’s 100% real. Candela, a company based in Stockholm, is making fully-electric hydrofoil ferries that float not on but above the water. But…why?
#hydrofoil #electricboat #PlanetA
Credits:
Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Camera: Marco Borowski
Video Editor: Neven Hillebrands
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer, Adam Baheej Adada
Factcheck: Jeannette Cwienk
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Read More:
Stockholm trial final report (mainly in Swedish):
diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2035543/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Full book about hydrofoils from 1990:
foils.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ShipsThatFly.pdf
Physics of hydrofoiling:
https://web.mit.edu/2.972/www/reports/hydrofoil/hydrofoil.html
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. We'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
Follow Planet A on TikTok: tiktok.com/@dw_planet
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:56 Meeting Candela
02:09 Shipping's battery problem
03:14 Taking off
06:23 Back on land
08:56 The hydrofoil factory
12:53 Hydrofoils' potential
