As boatbuilder Dan Miller drove west on Route 3 one Saturday morning in April, headed for Liberty’s Lake St. George, he harbored all the usual concerns of a shipwright on a sea-trial day: Would the ...

This awesome boat, dubbed Firefly, is a six-person boat that is powered entirely by the sun. The first Firefly was built in 2010 by Dan Baker who decided to construct his own pontoon to cruise around ...

When famed "Free Solo" climber Alex Honnold decided to donate one-third of his income to climate solutions, his top priority was funding projects that could increase access to renewable energy. What ...

BELLPORT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- How do you make a sail boat sail without sails? One Long Island man has solved that riddle, using the sun to power his boat. As CBS 2's Jennifer McLogan reported Tuesday, ...

Rome, NY -- With the ceremonial cutting of a fuel line, the Tamarack Lake Electric Boat Co. marked the start of assembling solar-powered boats at its plant in Rome. The company moved to Rome from ...

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time that includes the newly ...

Electric watercraft are an increasingly popular segment of the boating market. But a new electric catamaran from Sweden known as the POL Lux is taking it one step further with an electric boat that ...

A giant solar-powered boat has begun its voyage around the world, embarking on a 31,000 mile, 160 day circumnavigation that follows the sun at an estimated average speed of 7.5 knots. When we last ...

EDEN PRAIRIE – The sun didn’t make an appearance at the 2019 Solar Boat Regatta, but eight teams still powered their engines across Round Lake on Saturday, May 18. The Minnesota Renewable Energy ...

Recently the French originated demonstration boat the Energy Observer stopped for a visit to San Francisco, on its way around the world, having come from the Galapagos and on its way to Hawai`i. The ...

While we keep an eye on the journey of Solar Impulse 2, the solar-powered plane that's currently in the middle of its record-setting, around-the-world flight, it looks like it has a buddy in the water ...

The first boat race at the lake at the Clark County Fairgrounds will take place this week. The 24th annual Solar Splash competition — a collegiate solar boat race that highlights student engineering ...