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OCIUS Technology is an Australian company that specialised in solar/hybrid powered
A chartered Solar Sailor ferry operates on
ferries
A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water tax ...
but now focuses on marine drone
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), also known as unmanned surface vessels, autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) in some cases, uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), or colloquially drone ships, or robot boats, are boats or ships that operate on the ...
development.
Notable vessels
A chartered Solar Sailor ferry operates on Sydney Harbour
Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The harbour is an inlet of the Tasman Sea (p ...
, carrying 100 passengers.
A second ferry was built for the Shanghai World Expo, in association with Suntech
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. () is a Chinese producer of solar panels, with of annual production capacity by the end of 2011. It is headquartered in Wuxi, Jiangsu. Shunfeng International Clean Energy Limited, a HKSE listed renewable energy inv ...
Power, carrying 186 passengers.
Four ferries operate in Hong Kong carrying 100 passengers each.
See also
*Hybrid vehicle
A hybrid vehicle is one that uses two or more distinct types of power, such as submarines that use diesel when surfaced and batteries when submerged. Other means to store energy include pressurized fluid in hydraulic hybrids.
The basic princip ...
* Tûranor PlanetSolar
MS ''Tûranor PlanetSolar'', known under the project name ''PlanetSolar'', founded by the Swiss explorer Raphaël Domjan, is the largest solar-powered boat in the world and launched on 31 March 2010. It was designed and engineered by LOMOcean ...
* List of solar-powered boats
List of solar-powered boats is a list of boats powered by the sun, typically solar panels providing electrical power to motors.
* Aditya (boat), India's First Solar Ferry, 75 passenger boat is operating in Vaikom, Kerala, India. It is the larges ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://ocius.com.au Hybrid electric vehicles Companies based in Sydney Solar energy companies Solar-powered vehicles Holding companies of Australia Australian companies established in 1999 Australian brands