Six hours, not four
The longest endurance in the range. A tourism operator gets a full working evening out of a charge rather than planning around the battery.
An eight-passenger electric shikara — traditional lines, no engine noise.

The shikara is one of the few boats people travel specifically to sit in, and an engine has always been the wrong thing to put in it. The e-Shikara-8 carries eight passengers on electric drive: no vibration, no exhaust, and none of the noise that competes with the water. The form keeps deliberately Indian lines and the interior is fitted for a long, slow ride — storage for refreshments, an icebox, music and WiFi — with six hours of endurance behind it.
The images on this page are design renderings issued with the e-Shikara-8 product literature, not photographs of a delivered vessel.
Detailed specifications are issued per configuration — payload selection drives most of the numbers that matter.
| Capacity | 8 passengers |
|---|---|
| Speed | 2–3 knots |
| Endurance | 6 hours |
| Battery | Rechargeable Li-ion, with status monitoring |
| Control | Joystick |
| Refreshment | Mini fridge / icebox and storage |
| Onboard | Music system, WiFi enabled |
| Autonomy | Provision for autonomous operation |
Configurations vary by payload, water body and survey requirement. Tell us your site and we will send the specification that actually applies to it.
The longest endurance in the range. A tourism operator gets a full working evening out of a charge rather than planning around the battery.
Electric drive removes the vibration and engine noise that otherwise define a powered boat ride — which is precisely what passengers are paying for.
The lines and the canopy stay recognisably shikara. The propulsion, controls and instrumentation underneath do not.
Icebox, storage, onboard music and WiFi are specified because the boat exists to be sat in for an hour, not to get from one bank to the other.

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