India’s first solar powered ferry will come up in which state?
India’s first solar powered ferry will come up in which state?
[A]Gujarat
[B]Kerala
[C]Goa
[D]Andhra Pradesh
Kerala
India’s first 75-seater solar powered ferry will come up in the favourite tourism spot of Kerala “Allepey (the Venice of the East)”.These boats will be commissioned within the next three months and will run on the 2.5 km-long Vaikkom-Thavanakkadavu route. The boat is 20 m long, 7 m wide with a maximum cruising speed of 7.5 knots. The boat is built by a Kochi-based NavAlt, in collaboration with a French firm AltEn, which makes solar powered ferries across the world.