The Boat in Front ......... is a Toyota

[Firefly625]

In the car it works by generating electricity while breaking, so you recoupe some of the energy used to accelerate the car when slowing down. To have a hybrid system on a boat, where there are no brakes, you'd either have to get the energy from a pretty meaty wind generator or, less likely, solar panel. I can't see them using any prop or underwater harvesting systems as this would cause too much drag and kill the standard economy of the boat, which would render the whole system useless.

I am well aware how it works in a vehicle. The point that you have missed, and apparently Toyota (so you are certainly in good company) is Hybrid technology in the marine world is out there, in use, working well and currently very marketable.

http://www.greenlinehybrid.co.uk/

 

[ian38_39]

"Well i'm truly baffled, why on earth is the world's second biggest car maker piddling about making 15 bottom end flybridges a year?

answers on a postcard"

Before you know it they will be messing around making Forklifts and textile machinery.

 

[El Bee]

I have a Toyota RAV4 with a 2.2 litre turbo diesel, driven sensibly it manages around 45mpg. I have a boat which weighs about two thirds of the car's weight with a 3 litre Mercruiser that does about 3mpg whilst producing about 20bhp less

More than once I've thought that if Toyota marinised that engine and made it a drop-in replacement for the MerCruiser it would sell like hot cakes!

Lee B

 

[vas]

I have a Toyota RAV4 with a 2.2 litre turbo diesel, driven sensibly it manages around 45mpg. I have a boat which weighs about two thirds of the car's weight with a 3 litre Mercruiser that does about 3mpg whilst producing about 20bhp less

More than once I've thought that if Toyota marinised that engine and made it a drop-in replacement for the MerCruiser it would sell like hot cakes!

Lee B

power figures in boats vs cars (as often discussed here) are very different so no real comparison. Doubt if toyota boat engine would give more than 1/2 mpg to your existing figures with any serious reliability. And by the time you calculate the cost of replacement, refitting et al you'd only do it once the existing engines fail...

 

[Latestarter1]

power figures in boats vs cars (as often discussed here) are very different so no real comparison. Doubt if toyota boat engine would give more than 1/2 mpg to your existing figures with any serious reliability. And by the time you calculate the cost of replacement, refitting et al you'd only do it once the existing engines fail...

The Toyota engines in this vessel are already released as Yanmar 8LV-370, having taken a good look at these engines they will not hold a candle to the old Toyota based Yanmar 6LP's the engineers who put the package together had obviously never been on a boat!