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Solar Powered Boating as a Franchised Business

The franchise provides entrepreneurs with a proven business model to develop solar boating in their local countries

March 2022
May 2025

Solar Powered Boating as a Franchised Business

The franchise provides entrepreneurs with a proven business model to develop solar boating in their local countries

  • World Alliance Member
  • Featured Solution
  • Labelled Solution
Label Date May 12, 2025
By seaZen
From France
Maturity stage TRL 9 / CRI 3-4 - Commercial Scale Up / Multiple commercial Applications

The solution aims to provide a sustainable, cost-effective and environmentally friendly Franchise for entrepreneurs wishing to create their own jobs in the boating sector. The solution is based on solar-powered boat integrated with efficient business processes and multichannel distributors to facilitate the development of this new use and new public. A commercial demonstration for the Franchise has been developed near Nice, France since 2016. Awarded #1 over 121 outdoor activities on TripAdvisor it proves to reach a competitive quality price ratio. A second base is operated as an independent Franchise in Antibes, France.

The Environmental Benefits

  • Investing in one boat is enough, whereas 10 boats are usually needed to open a thermal boat rental base for a mainstream business model
  • By using a solar powered boat, we emit ZERO direct GHG and we avoid consuming electricity from the electric grid
  • By using a solar powered boat, we can produce 1600 Wc electricity power that can be share to the harbor facilities, off season when the boat is not used
  • The design replaced 80% of the boat fiber grass by aluminium. Aluminium is recyclable whereas fiber glass has to be burned for deconstruction

The Financial Benefits

  • For an entrepreneur, buying a solar powered boat is less expensive than buying a motorboat to operate private tours locally with possible rotations each hour.
  • For the end user, buying a 1-hour private hour tour is much less expensive that buying a private tour on the mainstream motor yachts currently used for this purpose.
  • Given the price of motorboats, the maintenance cost of fossil fuel engines and the fuel costs, the solar powered boat operation cost is much lower
  • It is possible to launch new business with one boat when operating private tours while it required more than 10 boats for a boat rental business to reach a critical size

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seaZen

SeaZen is a solar powered boat builder offering a proven business model franchise and zero-carbon strategy support

Headquarters 06310 Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
Type Company
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