No. 1 (yacht)

No. 1 is a sailing yacht which is power-assisted by an electric motor that gets its electricity from hydrogen fuel cells. It is the first ever yacht to be fuel cell-powered.^[1] The boat was certified under the Germanischer Lloyd guidelines for fuel cells on ships and boats.^[2][3] The yacht's debut was in August 2003 in Japan, and it is commissioned at Lake Constance (Kressbronn am Bodensee).

History
Name	No. 1
Owner	IPF Energie- und Umwelttechnik GmbH
Builder	Beneteau, in partnership with MTU Friedrichshafen
Maiden voyage	August 2003, Japan
Homeport	Kressbronn, Lake Constance
General characteristics
Length	12.26 m (40.2 ft)
Beam	3.76 m (12.3 ft)
Installed power	6 kg of hydrogen in 3 hydrogen tanks at 300 bar, four 1.2 kWa
Speed	7-knot (13 km/h) by fuel cell/electric
Notes	First fuel cell-powered yacht

MTU Friedrichshafen, the company that designed the boat's power system, has said that it views a move towards fuel cell-based power systems as logical given the demand for clean, quiet energy sources in leisure craft such as yachts.^[4]

Specifications

Boat 12.26 m long, width 3.76 m, 6 kg of hydrogen in 3 hydrogen tanks at 300 bar, four 1.2 kWa^[5] PEM fuel cells, 9 gel batteries, radius of action 225 km at a speed of 8 kts on the propeller.

See also

• Hydrogen ship
• Hydrogen vehicle
• Hydrogen economy