RS Electric Boats

RS Electric Boats is a British builder based at Romsey in Hampshire, part of the RS Marine Group alongside RS Sailing. It makes one boat, the Pulse 63, a 6.3 metre rigid inflatable sold in work boat, leisure, coach boat and superyacht tender configurations. The company's stated position is that the Pulse 63 was designed as an electric RIB from the outset rather than converted from a petrol hull. That distinction has physical consequences: battery mass sits low and central while an outboard's mass sits at the transom, so the two arrangements load the hull differently and trim differently under way. RS Electric publishes a top speed of 23 knots and a range of up to 140 nautical miles at 5 knots, a pairing that shows the electric planing-boat trade-off in unusually plain form, since the long-range figure belongs to displacement speed and not to the top end. Recharging takes under an hour at a rapid charging station or overnight from mains shore power. The coach boat configuration is the clearest fit for what the drivetrain is good at, because sailing schools and race support crews spend most of a day at low speed with short bursts of throttle. Being inside a group that already supplies dinghies to clubs and national federations gives the brand a direct route to exactly those buyers.