A futuristic car that takes up an ancient concept, that of moving on water. It is called Sea Bubbles and is the project initiated by a 2016 start-up by the founders Anders Bringdal e Alain Thebaut.
The revolutionary project, with very interesting application implications, is based on an electric vehicle that uses watercourses as 'roads'.
The aim is to decongest city traffic as much as possible, moving part of it to a network of 'liquid' routes.
These are not, however, public ferries, waterbuses and boats, or navigable cars or amphibious buses. The Sea Bubbles are agile and silent 'bubbles' that move at up to 10 km/h with a hydrojet motor powered by electricity and rise on hydrofoil skids like hydrofoils.
The project also focuses on sharing and the creation of hyper-technological interchange docks, to be anchored on the urban banks of rivers and lakes.
The rental of Sea Bubbles is done strictly via smartphone, while electricity for recharging is generated by submerged propellers that harness the water current and photovoltaic panels on the structure of the system.
Interest in this new means of transport has already been expressed by the mayor of Paris and representatives of public mobility in Geneva, all cities where traffic jams are a real problem that could be solved by the use of 'bubbles'.
And it is precisely for this reason that, as early as next year, experimentation will be launched for Sea Bubbles on taxi.
