James,
I don't know if any amount of interest will get the hybrid systems down to that kind of price point. My quote for a new 20hp diesel on a pallet was about $8000 by itself.
Eric
--- In electricboats@
>
> As for myself I have enough roof space on my 41 foot cabin curser for
> a 2kw array, The total cost for my system will run about $7000 for
> the array and high end inverter/charger.
> I will spend another $7000 on batteries and another $6000 for the
> motors and controllers. Thankfully I already have 6.5 KW generator
> that I will keep. So I'm looking at about $20,000 to re-power hybrid
> electric with solar cells mostly for house loads. I plan on spending
> lots of time "off the hook" so the costs work for me. I would have
> loved to use two of the Steyr motors if they where just not so
> unreasonably priced. As it is just one of them cost more then my
> total expected re-power cost plus I get a "free" battery bank and
> solar array.
>
> I wish some more companies would inter the marine hybrid market to
> help drive down the insane prices. Those 250 hp Steyr hybrids would
> start to be interesting to me at about $8000 apiece.
>
>
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