Electric Gussie Winners for the 2025 Gussies
The sole Canadian Gussie winner is the Taiga Orca from Taiga Motors, Canada
December 18, 2025
The winners of the 2025 Gustave Trouvé Awards for Excellence in Electric Boats and Boating (The Gussies), were announced in November. Now in their sixth year, the world’s only international awards dedicated exclusively to electric boats, continue to highlight the most innovative electric vessels across the globe, celebrating design, engineering achievement, and the rapid evolution of clean marine propulsion.
What makes this a Canadian story is that the Gussies were conceived and developed by Plugboats Editor, Jeff Butler of Toronto, who has generated interest from boaters and others around the world.
This year, the winning boats reflected the wide range of electric boats on the market. Butler comments, “The category for boats over eight meters perfectly illustrates the remarkable breadth of electric propulsion today. One of the winners is a state-of-the-art performance boat that set the speed record at the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge; the other is a quiet, solar-powered overnighter built for relaxed coastal cruising. That contrast shows how far the industry has come, and how many different directions it’s now growing.”
This year’s awards drew 5,000+ public votes from around the world and the expert judgement of a 35-member international panel, combining into a weighted voting system that determines the final results. From 42 finalists, 12 winners were selected across ten categories, reflecting the accelerating growth, diversity, and sophistication of the electric boating sector.
Notably, two new countries join the Gussies “Atlas of Winners” for the first time: Türkiye and Bulgaria, with Bulgaria earning two winners in 2025. Two categories resulted in a tie, with the top entries separated by less than 1% of combined votes, and in one case, by a single vote.
2025 Gussies Winners
Up To 8m / 26 ft
In Production
• Helios Omega 7.2 — Helios Marine, Bulgaria
In Development — TIE
• Alukin OceanAir 8 — Alukin Boats, Sweden | Pascal Technologies, Norway
• NERO 645 Voltara — Nero Yachts, Germany
Over 8m / 26 ft
In Production — TIE
• Frauscher x Porsche Fantom 850 — Frauscher Shipyard, Austria | Porsche AG, Germany
• Millikan M1.0 — Millikan Boats, France
In Development
• CROOZE EZ 28 — Crooze Yachts, Bulgaria
Electric Sailboats
• MODX-70 — MODX Catamarans, France
Electric Personal Watercraft (PWC)
• Taiga Orca — Taiga Motors, Canada
Retrofitted & Customized Electric Boats
• 1928 Herreshoff Launch — Nova Luxe Yachts, USA
Electric Workboats
• Electra 2800 SX — Sanmar Shipyard, Türkiye | Robert Allan Ltd., Canada
Commercial Passenger Vessels
In Operation
• Candela P-12 — Candela, Sweden
In Development
• EV Maritime — New Zealand
From high-performance record-setting race boats to solar-powered cruisers and zero-emission ferries, the 2025 winners demonstrate just how rapidly electric propulsion is advancing, and how widely it is being adopted.
Full list of winners and profiles on Plugboats
