Meet the Arc Sport – an electric wake boat with twice the torque and advanced software
Young and budding electric boat developer, Arc Boat Company, has just unveiled its second model – a mass-market electric wake boat called the Arc Sport. With a massive battery and no shortage of horsepower, Arc sees its latest all-electric marine product as a springboard into a segment in desperate need of modernization and intends to do so by offering “unprecedented performance.”
Arc Boat Company was founded in January 2021 as a venture-backed startup based in Los Angeles, California, currently operating on $110 million in funding to date.
In the past three years, its team of former rocket engineers and EV experts from companies like SpaceX, Tesla, Rivian, and Lyft has eclipsed 100 employees and successfully delivered its first product – the Arc One.
This limited edition all-electric cruiser launched (no pun intended) in June 2022 and less than 20 were built in total. That being said, it quickly sold out, and the final customer delivery was made this past January, rounding out the startup’s initial fleet. While production of the Arc One was limited, its creators consistently told the public to be patient because its second boat would be a game changer.
Today, we’ve learned what all the hype was about as the startup debuted the Arc Sport – an electric wake boat with more power, technology, and ballast than its predecessor.
The Arc Sport is an ultra-intelligent electric wake boat
Per a post by Arc Boat Company today, the Arc Sport electric wake boat is now available to reserve, and the development unit it will evolve from is “already ripping across the water at top speed.”
The startup describes its encore to the Arc One as “the most advanced wake boat to hit the water.” Blending aerospace engineering with EV tech and advanced software, the Arc Sport is as technologically advanced as it is powerful.
The electric wake boat begins with a 226 kWh battery pack that powers a 570 horsepower motor. Arc states the all-electric Sport can deliver more than double the torque of most premium wake boats on the market.
The company would not get into specifics about charge rates, but said the Arc Sport will support Level 1, 2, and DC fast charging and can replenish overnight on a Level 2 AC plug. On average, Arc says the electric wake boat should support 4-5 hours of active usage time, including plenty of towing, but can be used all day if cruising at lower speeds. Speaking of which, the Arc Sport’s optimal cruising speed is in the upper-20’s in mph but can reach a top speed of 40 mph (software-restricted.)
While we’ve seen the marine industry adopt electrification at an encouraging rate, those boats not adapting rely heavily on dated technology. To challenge this, Arc Boats has integrated the electric wake boat with advanced in-house software that can provide a holistic experience controlled through two displays at the helm. Better still, the software is capable of over-the-air (OTA) updates, allowing for continuous improvement. Per Arc Boat Company:
Unlike gas boats that start depreciating the day they’re built, the Arc Sport gets more intelligent — and more performant — over time. No other boat on the water today is capable of this.
Other premium features on the Arc Sport include a retractable hardtop tower with the push of a button, which can adjust the electric wake boat’s tow point to create a more comfortable ride during less-than-ideal marine conditions like wind or chop.
The boat has room for 15 passengers who can control the speaker system from JL Audio using a large entertainment screen that also allows for video playback and stats during wake boating. The bow and stern are equipped with thrusters to make docking more manageable, not to mention the Arc Sport is cleaner and quieter on the water.
The Arc Sport starts at $258,000 and is available to reserve now. Initial deliveries are expected to begin this year.
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If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you combine a fruit cart, a cargo bike, and a Piaggio Ape all in one vehicle, now you’ve got your answer. I submit, for your approval, this week’s feature for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column – and it’s a beautiful doozie.
Feast your eyes on this salad slinging, coleslaw cruising, tuber taxiing produce chariot!
I think this electric vegetable trike might finally scratch the itch long felt by many of my readers. It seems every time I cover an electric trike, even the really cool ones, I always get commenters poo-poo-ing it for having two wheels in the rear instead of two wheels in the front. Well, here you go, folks!
Designed with two front wheels for maximum stability, this trike keeps your cucumbers in check through every corner. Because trust me, you don’t want to hit a pothole and suddenly be juggling peaches like you’re in Cirque du Soleil: Farmers Market Edition.
To avoid the extra cost of designing a linked steering system for a pair of front wheels, the engineers who brought this salad shuttle to life simply side-stepped that complexity altogether by steering the entire fixed front end. I’ve got articulating electric tractors that steer like this, and so if it works for a several-ton work machine, it should work for a couple hundred pounds of cargo bike.
Featuring a giant cargo bed up front with four cascading fruit baskets set up for roadside sales, this cargo bike is something of a blank slate. Sure, you could monetize grandma’s vegetable garden, or you could fill it with your own ideas and concoctions. Our exceedingly talented graphics wizard sees it as the perfect coffee and pastry e-bike for my new startup, The Handlebarista, and I’m not one to argue. Basically, the sky is the limit with a blank slate bike like this!
Sure, the quality doesn’t quite match something like a fancy Tern cargo bike. The rim brakes aren’t exactly confidence-inspiring, but at least there are three of them. And if they should all give out, or just not quite slow you down enough to avoid that quickly approaching brick wall, then at least you’ve got a couple hundred pounds of tomatoes as a tasty crumple zone.
The electrical system does seem a bit underpowered. With a 36V battery and a 250W motor, I don’t know if one-third of a horsepower is enough to haul a full load to the local farmer’s market. But I guess if the weight is a bit much for the little motor, you could always do some snacking along the way. On the other hand, all the pictures seem to show a non-electric version. So if this cart is presumably mobile on pedal power alone, then that extra motor assist, however small, is going to feel like a very welcome guest.
The $950 price is presumably for the electric version, since that’s what’s in the title of the listing, though I wouldn’t get too excited just yet. I’ve bought a LOT of stuff on Alibaba, including many electric vehicles, and the too-good-to-be-true price is always exactly that. In my experience, you can multiply the Alibaba price by 3-4x to get the actual landed price for things like these. Even so, $3,000-$4,000 wouldn’t be a terrible price, considering a lot of electric trikes stateside already cost that much and don’t even come with a quad-set of vegetable baskets on board!
I should also put my normal caveat in here about not actually buying one of these. Please, please don’t try to buy one of these awesome cargo e-trikes. This is a silly, tongue-in-cheek weekend column where I scour the ever-entertaining underbelly of China’s massive e-commerce site Alibaba in search of fun, quirky, and just plain awesomely weird electric vehicles. While I’ve successfully bought several fun things on the platform, I’ve also gotten scammed more than once, so this is not for the timid or the tight-budgeted among us.
That isn’t to say that some of my more stubborn readers haven’t followed in my footsteps before, ignoring my advice and setting out on their own wild journey. But please don’t be the one who risks it all and gets nothing in return. Don’t say I didn’t warn you; this is the warning.
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In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Trump’s Big Beautiful bill becoming law and going after EVs and solar, Tesla, Ford, and GM EV sales, Electrek Formula Sun, and more
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- Here’s why Ford’s electric vehicle sales crashed by nearly a third in Q2
- The Chevy Equinox EV is GM’s breakout star, but that’s not the only surprise
- Xpeng launches G7, a new Tesla Model Y competitor for just $27,000
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