With its wide coastline, pervasive nautical culture, environmental sensitivity and high standard of living, it is no surprise that many of the major players in the decarbonization of maritime transport come from this country, which is the leading European market in terms of electric vehicle penetration. 

Seadrive manufactures a range of pods of the highest quality and functionality.

SeaDrive pods are torpedo type pods, profiled and made entirely of bronze, a material that is not very sensitive to electrolysis issues.

SeaDrive offers them in versions that can be lifted into a shaft inside the hull, fixed, with a mast/shaft - but there is no longer a shaft! - and especially in a remarkable azimuthal version.

This last proposal is able to make a 180° turn in order to offer, in hydro generation mode, the best possible performance on sailboats. This interesting feature allows these pods to be equipped, when mounted on sailboats, with folding propellers, propellers that offer a very limited drag in pure sailing, but that, turned 180°, optimize the hydro generation.

A hydro generation that reaches 4000 W at 13.5 knots, a very respectable figure for a pod of 7.5 kW (comparable to that of a saildrive Servoprop 15 kW, twice as powerful) and which suggests extraordinary performance of the 15 kW version.

In terms of maneuverability, the steerable pod combined with a joystick offers possibilities unknown to a single engine, sailboat or motorboat, allowing it to turn in circles on the spot, as would a twin engine with one of its engines engaged forward and the other aft.

For now, only the 7.5 kW pod is being marketed, with the 15k announced for the second quarter of 2023 and the 30 for the end of the year.

It is important to understand that SeaDrive is not an obscure little startup, but a player, now industrial, that makes its own pods, probably the best designed and finished in the world of boating.

SeaDrive pod 7,5 kW azimuth + controls, 12.000 € approx. EXW Norway