E-MOTION Market Opportunity
Environmental Damage from
Traditional Internal Combustion
Engines (ICEs)
In an effort to improve air quality and protect water habitats, cities and
municipalities, there is a movement to ultimately ban or currently
restrict the use of traditional gasoline and diesel powerboats (ICEs) from
local waterways, lakes and rivers.
In the early 2000's, 8 million speedboats in the United States released
15 times more pollutants annually into the environment than the
catastrophic oil spill produced by the oil tanker Exxon Valdez in 1989.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified the following
potential environmental impacts from gasoline-powered ICE boating:
▷ High cumulative toxicity in the water as well as in the air;
Increased pollutant concentrations in aquatic organisms
and sediments;
Increased nutrients, leading to an increase in algae and a
decrease in oxygen (eutrophication);
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High levels of pathogens.
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