Our Design Approach

The XeroPoint Hybrid design team takes a holistic approach to hybrid vessel design. Starting with understanding the owner-operator's goals and the vessel's duty cycle, we consider the entire vessel operation, including crew and maintenance staff, as a complex integrated system.

Duty cycle analysis involves finding the important load points (the XeroPoints) in a vessel's operational profile, and designing specific machinery configurations around these points. The traditional propulsion design approach has been to optimize around a single load point at or near maximum power.

But workboats and other multi-function vessels typically spend a large amount of time operating at low load, where specific fuel consumption performance for diesel engines is well off optimum.

the XeroPoint Hybrid design approach focuses on your specific vessel, team and operational realities to eliminate system inefficiencies and deliver significant fuel savings and emission reductions. We will work with your team to assemble data - using existing data or putting a team onboard to measure power levels directly - and prepare a complete analysis and business case before you commit to capital spending.

December 11, 2009 - XeroPoint Hybrid System key ingredient in latest awards for Foss Maritime. Read more here....

November 25, 2009 - XeroPoint Hybrid system to be deployed on new whale watch catamaran.

January 13, 2009 - Official launch ceremony of the World's first hybrid Tug is scheduled for January 23rd in Long Beach, California. read more here....

August 6, 2008 - CBC News PEI company instrumental in launch of hybrid tugboat. Read more here...

April 2, 2008 - Xeropoint and Foss Maritime to present Hybrid Tug Paper at the International Tug & Salvage Conference in Singapore. Download the abstract here.

Seattle, March 2, 2007 - Foss Maritime chooses XeroPoint Hybrid Technology to power its new Hybrid Dolphin class ship assist tug. read more here....