TEAM

UniBoAT

University of Bologna Argonauts Team — Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna

🇮🇹 Italy

Energy Class

Battery + Hydrogen

The team

Meet the team

UniBoAT is an educational project bringing together students from a range of academic backgrounds with a single goal: to build a high-efficiency, clean-energy racing catamaran for the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge. To date, the boat has won three consecutive editions in the Energy Class. In 2025, alongside winning the Energy Class, the team also took first place in several Tech Talks. In doing so, UniBoAT opens career pathways for its students across the automotive and business sectors — many former team members now work for leading companies at both regional and national level.

University

Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna

Country

🇮🇹 Italy

Based in

Bologna, Italy

Team members

12 students

Discipline

Energy Class

Racing number

TBA

The boat

Their Energy Class boat

Coming off four Energy Class wins in the last five editions of the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge — and an extraordinary 2025 season — the UniBoAT team’s objective is clear: to repeat that success. But the team also wants to innovate and bring something genuinely new, more performance-focused and more clean-energy driven. That is why UniBoAT is developing a dual energy-source system, combining a custom battery pack with a hydrogen system, along with a fully custom DC-DC converter to integrate the fuel cell into the powertrain. The dream is to win the Energy Class again with this very different architecture — but the clear aim is to win the endurance race, demonstrating how hydrogen can be used to reach top performance.

Energy Class specifications

Custom battery pack

Hydrogen fuel cell

Custom DC-DC converter

Zero-emission

5.0 m

Length

2.5 m

Beam

250 kg

Max displ.

25 kn

Design speed

10 kWh

Max energy

Cat. C

UniBoAT

Meet the team

Their Energy Class boat

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