Alexandre Mongeon
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's demanding and the environment is a bit different.
The thermal condition, the saltwater exposures, the safety standard.
And we had to scale quickly in production.
And the prototype is pretty easy to do.
But moving into production, it's a different ballgame.
That's what we had focused over the past three years by working with McLaren, Linamar and also BRP, Bombardier.
So that was the most challenging part.
And this is where we are.
So we were also have to navigate it into an immature supply chain and higher voltage marine space.
As you mentioned, you only were seeing small trolling motors of 48 or 36 volt.
We have a 700-volt architecture.
So we went from a prototype phase as the years 2018-19 to a production phase, and we are delivering system as we speak.
But the focus today is discipline, execution, and controlling costs and ensuring reliability and scaling production with our demand and our dealership network.
The technology is there.
It's not a prototype, and now we're scaling production.
Well, we see the marine electrification following the car or the automotive industry.
It's a gradual adoption.
The acceleration and the economics, the user experience is aligning with what we do.
The near term, the growth is driven by the demand and we are actually pushing pretty, I would say, heavily on presenting the product.
And there's a demand for that.