ElectricMarine.eu

An independent European initiative

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Full Current Ahead.

ElectricMarine.eu — the European Electric Boating Acceleration Initiative: groundwork for the electric transition on Europe's waters, built in the open, ahead of mandates and programmes.

Why we started

Europe has begun to move. The Electrification Action Plan names ports as energy hubs. The revision of the alternative fuels rules opens the door to charging on the waterside. The boating industry's own roadmap calls for data, coordination and infrastructure that is ready before the boats arrive.

We believe this transition matters enough to deserve working groundwork today — not because institutions are absent, but because some work is significant enough to begin without being asked.

So we began. Independently, in the open, and in the service of everyone who will one day plug a boat into a European harbour.

The platform

Three planks, one direction

Everything the initiative builds is public-interest infrastructure: knowledge that lowers the cost of going electric — for boaters, for marinas, for builders.

01

Know every electric boat

Through Nauteria, the initiative is developing a platform documenting every electric leisure boat on the European market and the builder behind it — specifications, range, charging needs — with the ambition of being readable in every language of Europe. Choosing electric should never fail on missing information.

electricyachtmarket.com electricboatsonline.com
02

Map every marina

A unified registry of Europe's yacht harbours and marinas — coastal and inland — is already in active development: 22,430 georeferenced locations across 57 countries, drawn from public sources, deduplicated and enriched record by record. On top of it: the first map of electrified marinas, showing where a boat can actually charge today.

Active — figures from August 2026
03

Fund the charge

A working team is assembling the information package a marina needs to electrify: European and national funding routes, real installation costs, and build options from one AC point to dockside fast charging. The goal: no marina should abandon electrification because nobody explained how to pay for it.

Research underway

The evidence

The gap, measured

The industry estimates 10,000–20,000 marinas in Europe and calls for coordinated data. This is what our registry can already show — and what it reveals about how early we are.

Map of Europe with 22,430 marina locations as small dots and 65 electric-boat charging sites highlighted
Every dot is a harbour in the registry. The green marks are the marinas where an electric boat can charge. August 2026.
22,430
georeferenced marina & harbour locations
57
European countries covered
8,988
marina websites analysed for charging evidence
65
marinas offering electric-boat charging
65. In all of Europe.

Two thirds of them in just two countries. That number is the entire distance between today and electric boating at scale — and it is exactly why this work is worth doing now.

An open initiative

Come aboard

The initiative is independent and self-started — but it is not closed. Marinas that want to appear on the map, builders of electric boats, industry associations, researchers and public institutions: the registry, the platform and the funding work are open for cooperation.

If your work touches the electric transition on the water, we would like to hear from you.

What are you working on, and what would be useful to you?

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