The new entrepreneur browser company, located in Switzerland, obtained Sunday, January 30 the first pre-order of this new model built for a dozen passengers.
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His Seabubbles, from the machines earned on “Foils” (sort of wings raising the boat), had to hover over the Seine at the approach of the Olympic Games of 2024, but it will not be Alain Thébault, one of its promoting designers in 2015, which will be orders. The start-up was resumed at the end of 2020 by the MediaApps Innovation investment fund. And the entrepreneur browser went from the other side of the Alps, Switzerland.
There has been another company, Bubblefly, which has a goal of developing a new machine, more velocious and larger. “I discussed with many specialists, and I changed my concept,” he says. We have redesigned a bubble, more tapered and larger, which can operate with two fuel cells, fueled to the hydrogen in order to gain autonomy with respect to the batteries. This will allow both to enlarge the cabin and transport to a dozen passengers, and this can navigate up to 40 knots [about 70 km / h] . “
Renewed The Jet Zero Emission, the machine is under development in Switzerland. Sunday, January 30, the company recorded its first pre-order on the part of Zenith Marine Services, a family company specializing in freight in the Middle East, and Dwyn, the Investment Fund of Arnaud Mallathus, a former Microsoft framework and Roche, installed in Dubai. The latter will then operate in the Gulf the future boat, promised at once “without wave, without noise and without emission of co 2 “. The objective is an operation for COP 28, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, which will take place in the United Arab Emirates in November 2023.
Economic model simpler
The first investors will also participate in the fundraising of a decade of millions of euros that hence the start-up to start production. Alain Thébault focuses on the development of the future gear with Bertrand Cardis, the architect who has developed the Alinghi sailboat or the Solar Impulse plane. To adapt the gear to the regulations of the different navigation areas, it relies on the counter-admiral Antoine de Roquefeuil. The company will be directed in the months to come by a new boss, still in place in a Paris consulting firm.
While Seabubbles still sought, before the departure of Mr. Thébault, his economic model, that of The Jet seems simpler. The company wishes to operate franchise, producing its boats by construction sites, and the rent in the form of leasing to operating companies. “We are in discussion with different actors, including palaces located on the lake or sea, in the world’s major urban centers,” says Thébault, who dreams of seeing dozens of these new boats around locate and place. polluting motor boats.
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