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Charles Chairman

Good

Cox Powertrain

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Born from the mindset of Formula F1 racing, the Cox Marine

CXO300 diesel outboard engine is seeking to take share of market from the gasoline outboard sector. Charles Good,

Chairman, Cox Powertrain, discusses the company’s evolution.

By Greg Trauthwein and the key was looking at marinized inboard engines. They

When did the notion of a marine diesel outboard were lorry engines that were converted for marine use; won- engine strike you as a good idea?

We have to go back to 1966 when I was 20 years old. In derful engines, extremely long lives, but they’re very big and heavy. (Big and heavy) was never going to be an option for

Greece, where we were staying on my mother’s ancient wood- an outboard motor, and the key was to get the size and weight en Greek boat, I was decanting petrol from a large container to a small one for our outboard motor and spilled a large quantity of the engine down. And then just over 10 years ago I was on the deck. It erupted into ? ames and a serious ? re ensued. introduced to David Cox.

David had a career as an outstanding creative engineer with

Luckily no one was hurt and we did contain the ? re, but it left an indelible mark. So that was really the initial instigation in a background in Formula One racing here in the UK. He had the back of my mind that somebody one day needs to come up been looking at designing a lightweight diesel for a different purpose, military drones. I spotted in that an opportunity to with an outboard that uses diesel. look at the possibility of using this creative thinking, mainly driven from Formula One racing where there’s a culture of

What was the pivotal relationship that made Cox driving engine power up and weight down. So that was when a ‘go’?

For 50 years I felt the solution needed to be found for this, the dream started to become a reality.

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