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The hype around the electric hydrofoil basically exploded in 2017. We hear from new projects almost every other week.
It is just fascinating to fly above the water surface. Many commercial products are announced for 2018 and we will help you to keep informed about them.
No matter if the inflatable hydrofoil which you can easily fit into the back of your car or the DIY electric hydrofoil – you will find them here.
A Hydrofoil needs less power compared to a normal electric surfboard once it is flying. This makes the board not only less expensive, but also a few problems such like heating can be resolved more easily.
Next to the commercial e-Foils there was formed a community over the last months which build their own e-hydrofoils.
Originally single projects were documented (for example on Youtube) but now you can find almost all of them in one place. Read more about the efoil.builders forum below.
With all the hype around the electric hydrofoils we don’t think they will replace electric surfboards.
It is a different feeling. While you can aggressively carve with an surfboard a hydrofoil is for smooth cruising about the surface.
Both is a lot of fun in its own way.
In July we had our 2nd electric hydrofoil lesson based on the EasyGoat from CabraTec.
This was our second try on an e-Foil this year and while we had more air time than before there is still some way to go.
Continue reading “Electric Hydrofoil lesson powered by CabraTec”
In June 2018 Liftfoils started shipping the first 50 units of its eFoil. According to their website they have a “few hundred” pre-orders to fulfil over the next weeks.
If you order now they forecast a shipping time of 3-4 months. Resellers can sign up and will get the first shipments in October.
Continue reading “Liftfoils started shipping and published some “how to” videos”
How to ride an electric hydrofoil?
It is still early times for electric hydrofoils and most (if not all) videos you can see on the web are either DIY E-Foils or prototypes.
We had the chance to ride a DIY E-Foil in Los Angeles and can confirm it is absolutely insane. So how to ride an electric hydrofoil?
The Fliteboard electric foil developed under the leadership of CEO David Trewern is a beauty and available for pre-order sind end of March 2018.
Time for an interview with David to find out more about the Fliteboard project and his motivation.
Continue reading “Fliteboard CEO David Trewern interview by E-Surfer”
You can now pre-order the electric hydrofoils Fliteboard, Fliteboard Pro and Fliteboard Air from Australia.
The e-Foils are modular which make them easy to transport, setup and customisable. They are coming in the 3 versions Standard. Pro and Air.
Continue reading “Fliteboard, Fliteboard Pro & Fliteboard Air”
There is a big hype about electric hydrofoils these days. Multiple commercial and DIY projects are described in our e-Foil section.
A lot of time and money is spent from hundreds of enthusiastic people to form a new sport and potentially a new way of travelling.
In October 2013 Prof. Jack W. Langelaan from Penn State University in Pennsylvania issued several patents around weight-shift controlled personal hydrofoil watercrafts.
Continue reading “Is a questionable patent slowing down the e-Foil trend?”
We were reaching out for interviews to Nick Leason, Prof. Jack Langelaan and Prof. Jakob Kuttenkeuler based on our Electric foil patents article “Is a questionable patent slowing down the e-Foil trend?”.
Here is what they had to say.
The Jetfoiler from Kai Concepts is an electric hydrofoil developed in Alameda close to San Francisco.
The Kai concept team is led by Don Montague who has an impressive water-sports background. Don worked close with Robby Naish and Pete Cabrinha where he developed for example their windsurf sails and kites as the head of R&D at Naish International.
The Elevate is an inflatable electric foil surfboard which is developed in Germany close to the Bodensee and continues the studies of the swedish evolo hydrofoil project
The idea is to develop a multi purpose foil surfboard which can be used with an electric powered expeller engine or be used as a foil windsurf- or even kiteboard and the goal oft he study is to show that it is possible to ride at speeds of 30km/h with only 1KW electric power.
Continue reading “ELEVATE – inflatable electric foil surfboard”
Sport Prop spol.s r.o. from Prague is developing the ELdoRIDEdo which is an Electric Foil with impeller and an inflatable or normal board.
The board is supposed to be commercially available from mid of 2018.
