Futuristic Sea Bubble soon to sail

It looks like a bubble boards on wheels and offers four seats. The Sea Bubble is the latest browser of the project Alain Thébault, father of l'Hydroptère, co-designed with Eric Tabarly. This brief funny electric boat can take passengers on the Seine River, the Thames or Lake Geneva. The first SeaBubble tests occurred in March 2017 South of France and were very convincing for a prototype. Future versions should see their redesigned design to meet the futuristic contours.

Sea Bubble is a boat that goes on skates, but it is much more like a taxi than Formula 1. "These are my daughters who caused the trigger," says Alain Thébault. Day: It's great to have beaten the record speed sail, but what can you do to be useful to the planet? "
Impressed by the number of traffic jams in the streets along a river or lake, as imagined in Paris or Geneva, a transportation system that combines flexibility, comfort and silence. He takes his laptop and started to draw.
These capsules are powered by a motor and battery (powered by solar panels) and barely touches the water with its unprecedented design. They can be used as an environmentally friendly transportation solution for tourists and Ile-de-France in search of air travel.
Long convinced that the future belongs to seaplanes, Alain Thébault immediately envision a boat mounted on leaves (runners) with four seats and able to get out of the water at low speed. With his experience, forged his successes and failures, stresses the importance of starting with pencil drawings. "I started the sea bubble project myself, I have to use common sense, I work as a high tech farmer, and only after that I use engineers using their computers."
His bubble of the sea design seduce Henry Seydoux, the chief of Parrot (who supports financially) and the city of Paris. Paris Anne Hidalgo wants to be the first city to have this new river vehicle for urban areas. These funny flying cars can sail on the River Seine in 2018 to lighten the streets of the capital. A video of two bubbles that cross the sea at the foot of the tower would certainly be the most beautiful effect. London expressed interest, as did Hong Kong.
This navigation skids several advantages that significantly reduces drag, the "bubble" does not create waves that can damage the seats, provides comfort to the passengers with its smoothest movement and needs 30 to 40% less energy at the same rate. This makes it very suitable for the electric drive unit. This part does not represent any particular difficulty, nor the choice of batteries. And Alain Thébault, "the choice of an electric motor will allow the sea bubble to go into protected areas."

The enthusiasm and optimism did not leave Alain Thébault. Sold at least 500 sea bubbles in the world. First, the "Bubbles" will work as vehicles with driver (VTC), with similar prices. But the goal is to make it fully automatic and autonomous.