Vita Power

Vita dates itself to 2017, when its first prototype, the nine metre Vita IX, won both the speed and the endurance classes at the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge. The company builds complete electric boats and the powertrain that drives them, which is unusual at this size, and it sells the powertrain to other builders as well. Its own boats are the Seal, a seven metre RIB launched in 2021 with a cruising speed of 20 knots and a top speed above 30, the SeaDog, a 5.8 metre commercial RIB introduced in 2023 for port and marina work, and the Lion, a 10.5 metre day boat that Vita describes as its first premium production model, with a 25 knot cruise, a top speed above 35 knots and a one-hour supercharge. The charging claim is the point of the whole system. Vita designed its drivetrain to accept both AC and DC dockside charging, so its boats can use marina supercharger networks rather than depending on an overnight shore-power hookup, and the company has been an active participant in building that network out. In July 2024 Vita merged with the Norwegian propulsion firm Evoy. The combined business now supplies inboard and outboard systems to other yards, Frauscher among them, which means Vita turns up on a European buyer's shortlist twice: once as a boatbuilder, once inside somebody else's boat.