Rob McNaughton
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Initially, the product offering is 10 units.
That's ranging from 50 horsepower all the way up to 350 horsepower, three of which are hybrid, the 160, the 260 and the 350.
Well, what Zoom Lion have done is, the architect is similar to what they would have done in locomotives, so it's an
to Zoomline, but it's certainly, what they use is an engine running a generator, and what that does is it gives you consistency of power, so you don't have, you're not relying on electricity all the time, it's just connected, so you have huge torque from down low in the rev range all the way up to the height.
Yeah, 30%, north of 30% savings on the fuel.
Zoomland are targeting between โฌ500 and โฌ750 per horsepower.
Bear in mind, the technology is advanced and there's a lot of moving pieces in it.
And to make it competitive and to compete with diesel, traditional diesel tractors, and especially being Chinese, even though that stigma is now leaving and people are accepting Chinese products.
The price range of that is exciting for us.
I'll be north of โฌ130,000.
It's not the road that Zoom line have taken with battery technology currently in its current state.
To get an 18-hour shift, it's not achievable at this moment in time.
However, Zoomline are going this hybrid road, and it looks like, certainly for the short to medium term, that is their route to market.