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America's Cup
12 May 2022

ETNZ hit milestones

Emirates Team New Zealand continue the successful commissioning and testing of their hydrogen powered foiling chase boat Chase Zero on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, since its launch five weeks ago.

The top speed of Chase Zero to date has been clocked at 50.3 knots on its ninth day of testing, which has always been the expectation of the design of the foiling boat.

Further, the range test provided engineers with valuable data and now the team can accurately assume that the range of Chase Zero on four full 8.4 kg tanks of hydrogen gas is 330 km’s at a cruising speed of 28 to 30 knots of boat speed.

“Our hydrogen powered chase boat is cutting edge technology, so like we do with our race yachts we have been cautiously stepping it through the commissioning process,” says Chase Zero Operations Coordinator Nick Burridge.

“But in saying that, we have progressed through it quite nicely and really ticked off some key milestones, some of which have really exceeded our expectations.”

The team have now run Chase Zero for 36 hours of motoring so far and over 1042 km have been covered on the water, with the only emissions of its operations being pure water.

 

etnz.com