ZPARQ Z10: Challenging the Limits of Marine Propulsion

2026-07-22

Sea leisure and commercial vessels, as well as other watercraft, are mainly based on combustion engines which release large amounts of CO2 and other emissions (NOx, SOx, CO…), as well as, pollute water due to fuel and oil leakages. While regulations are promoting new electric systems, current designs are still far from maximum efficiency as these are based on internal combustion engine designs. At Zparq, we have developed an innovative cooling system that allows us to reduce the size of our POD motor, which is now 10 times smaller in weight and volume than any other existing POD motor in the market. This enables a breakthrough outrunner direct drive technology that brings lower TCO (-40%), lower energy cost and higher efficiencies (+15%), lower drag and longer range for a given energy consumption. On top of that, thanks to our novel engineering design, the footprint associated to the manufacturing of our system is reduced 50% compared to existing competitors. Plus, our system is highly modular and flexible and can be installed in any configuration like outboard, azimut thruster, saildrive, sterndrive or hydrofoil and can be scaled to any power range. Now we aim at optimising our system, scale it to higher power ranges, finalise the control platform including energy management and smart sailing features and validate our solution through several pilots in different type of end users.

Sweden

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