The future of the electric boating industry could be at a Norfolk marina

On a recent afternoon, Erick Pinzon pointed out some of the vessels parked in the lot of Willoughby Marina.

“This is a boat from Finland that’s got solar panels on top,” he said. “We’ve got an X Shore one, which is a 21-foot cuddy cabin that’s from Sweden. All of these electric jet skis here are from Taiga, from Montreal.”

Pinzon and his business partner, Erin Gatling, launched a company in Norfolk a few years ago called Electrified Marina, which has shipped dozens of electric vessels from San Diego to Singapore…

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