{"id":9948,"date":"2010-06-10T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2010\/06\/10\/harbour-pleasure-boat-fitted-with-hybrid-propulsion\/"},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T13:13:00","slug":"harbour-pleasure-boat-fitted-with-hybrid-propulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/americas-greenport\/harbour-pleasure-boat-fitted-with-hybrid-propulsion\/","title":{"rendered":"Harbour pleasure boat fitted with hybrid propulsion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 40-year-old <em>Angelena II<\/em> becomes what is believed to be the first harbour craft in the world to be retrofitted with a dualelectric motor, ultra-low emission hybrid propulsion system.<\/p>\n<p>After reaching 300 operating hours (anticipated later this year), the engines will no longer meet California emissions requirements. By switching from biodiesel to an ultra-low emission serial hybrid propulsion system, it is estimated the boat will cut fuel usage by 95%. The retrofit is scheduled to take place between September and December this year.<\/p>\n<p>Under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the $489,000 hi-tech conversion will be fully reimbursed through a US Department of Energy\u2019s energy efficiency and conservation block grant. \u201cThe marine industry has been begging for the technology that would allow a hybrid breakthrough for boating,\u201d commented Jack McCoy, CEO of EnergyTech Marine Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EnergyTech Marine lithium-ionpowered plug-in hybrid electric vessel system actually leapfrogs future automotive plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The reduction of energy consumption and emissions far exceeds any of the hybrid technologies currently offered for autos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1970, the <em>Angelena II<\/em> is a 73ft harbor motor craft currently powered by two 350-horsepower diesel engines. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Harbor Commission has authorised the Port of Los Angeles to purchase a hybrid propulsion system for its 40-passenger harbour tour boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}