Bermuda’s fight against climate change has a new weapon — electric vehicle firm Zeroe (zero emissions).

Focusing mostly on larger EVs, Zeroe says it has imported the island’s first commercial-scale electric truck and charger, late last year, supplied to AC Brewer.

“The client was already very interested in alternative energy,” company founder Dwayne Trott said.

He explained that the truck uses a three‑phase, fast‑charging system powerful enough to take the battery from around 5 to 10 per cent back to full in about an hour.

He conceded that electric commercial trucks can be power hungry.

Mr Trott’s strategy is to work with fleet owners willing to trial one electric truck, measure how it performs and then, over time, replace diesel vehicles as they age out.

His hope is to expand into other large vehicles such as trash trucks and ferries. To support this, he has partnered with Japanese manufacturer Isuzu.

“The focus for me is sustainability,” Mr Trott said. “It is all about reducing Bermuda’s carbon footprint.”

To him, being an entrepreneur is about solving problems, and environmentalists consider gas-guzzling trucks to be a big problem, accounting for around 40 per cent of all road transport emissions.

Zeroe also sells the odd two-seater Fiat car or van.

There is no showroom on island — he imports larger vehicles from Shanghai, China, and cars from the United Kingdom, on request.

Mr Trott said as EVs grow in number on the island, a common concern is that charging them all — especially large trucks and buses — will overload Bermuda’s power grid.

He believed the problem could be managed by decentralising resilience.

“You can actually have vehicle batteries that you can use to charge your house,” he said. “They call it vehicle‑to‑home technology. They have others called vehicle‑to‑grid and there’s V2L — vehicle‑to‑load — where you can plug your power tools or your fridge straight into the truck.”

Belco itself however, is less concerned about potentially overloading its grid with EVs.

Its director of energy transition and business development, Jeff Steynor said Belco welcomed the growing interest in EVs, as Bermuda moved towards a cleaner future.

“Belco plans and operates the system to safely and reliably meet changing demand from customers and new technologies like EVs,” Mr Steynor said. “EVs do use more electricity, but there is no single threshold at which the grid comes under pressure.”

He said the impact depends on factors such as charging habits, time of day and the pace of adoption.

“Charging overnight or during quieter times of the day helps spread demand and makes the best use of existing infrastructure,” he said. “What matters most is that growth happens gradually and that customers charge smartly.”

Zeroe is just one of several of projects Mr Trott has on the go.

“I am looking to solve sustainable housing, food security, and energy,” he said. “Those are the three core ones.”

Mr Trott said everything he is doing revolves around looking out for the ordinary person, not the elites.

“We are trying to change the narrative of how things have been done for the last 100 years,” he said.

He feels that if it works it could become a model for other islands facing the same problems.

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