Tom,
12 small Bayliners, 3 million budget. Prototyping involves intelligent guesses, drive/systems removal, experimental installation, trials, re-engineering, trials, pricing, finishing, trials, destructive testing, agency certification. That process alone could easily eat $10 million, but we will assume extraordinary good fortune and highly skilled volunteer labor.
Hybrids - 60k for motors & drive, 40k for electronics & batteries, 50k installation, 100k towards prototyping 1st boat.
All Electric - 20k for motors & drive, 80k for electronics & batteries, 50k installation, 100k towards prototype.
It is easy to throw a motor, a controller, and some batteries in a boat and go play. I did it for a few hundred dollars. It is another thing entirely to idiot-proof the system for an insured 10 hour day of varied speed-boating. This is the difference between a tinker's dream and the average idiot boater's needs.
A quicker option would be to copy one of the several examples around the world of well designed electric or hybrid speed-boats. I suspect that the designers would accept a $100k per boat licensing fee. Any less and you would have a $30 million lawsuit to contend with.
Just my perspective,
Mark Stafford
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Tom" <boat_works@...> wrote:
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> $250K for each runabout? I'm interested in hearing how you'd allocate the money for converting them, and what kind of performance you'd expect to achieve.
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> -Tom
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