Electric propulsion that goes the distance

The gap in the market

Excellent components everywhere. No one tying them into a working system.

Oceanvolt, Molabo, Victron, Mastervolt, Torqeedo: all make excellent individual components. No one ties them into a working, optimised system. A yacht's propulsion, battery management and energy systems today rarely talk to each other. Each operates in isolation, unaware of what the others are doing. That is the gap Watt Knots fills.

We build the telemetry and software layer that ties these systems together, getting the most from the energy already aboard. And where the right hardware doesn't yet exist to make electric propulsion work in the real world, we build that too. Two halves of one system, built in partnership with the leading propulsion makers and boat builders.

01

Battery cost

Lithium battery pack costs have fallen by approximately 90% over fifteen years. The economics of storage have fundamentally changed.

02

Solar efficiency

PV module efficiency has risen ~25% in five years. Fixed deck arrays now generate meaningful energy from constrained surface areas.

03

Regulation

Mediterranean emission zones, Norwegian fjord restrictions, and Dutch inland-waterway rules are tightening the envelope for combustion engines.

04

Builder demand

Yards and naval architects want turnkey systems that work as a whole, not the burden of integrating components from a dozen vendors who never designed them to talk to each other.

05

Motor and drive maturity

Electric drives are lighter, more reliable, and lower-maintenance than the diesel engines they replace, and proven in offshore racing conditions where failure is not an option.

Insights

Engineering the argument.