After voting by the public and an International Judging Panel of 25 electric boat experts, the 2023 “Gussies” winners have been recognised as the best representatives of “excellence in electric boats and boating”.
Now in their fourth year, the awards are organised by electric boat website Plugboats.com.
The awards are named after Gustave Trouvé, the French inventor who decided the best way to work on the electric motor propelling his prototype boat ‘Le Téléphone‘ along the Seine in 1874 was to devise a detachable unit so that he could tinker with the motor in his shop at home. It was the birth of the outboard motor.
Now, in 2023, more than 160 boats from 25 countries and every continent except Antarctica entered ‘The Gussies’ and carry on his legacy.
