Solar-Powered Ferry

Initiative
Location
Kottayam, India 🇮🇳, AS
Scale
City
Led by
Private sector
Background

The Aditya is a sun-powered commuter ferry that is one of the great stories of the future of electric marine propulsion. On a daily basis, the ferry makes 22 trips with 75 people on board – that’s 580,000 people a year – and the charging cost to top up the batteries is $2.60 a day – preventing the burning of 58,000 litres of diesel and saving thousands per year.

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