EV Charging
ZEROe is on a mission to liberate Bermuda from fossil fuels. To transition towards a Bermuda fully powered by renewable energy, transportation must be electric. By partnering with innovate companies such as Wallbox, Enelx, and Nuvve that develop state-of-the-art electric vehicle charging solutions for homes, businesses, and cities, we will introduce more efficient, more sustainable ways of using and sharing energy in Bermuda.
ZEROe will offer two distinct energy solution sources for the charging infrastructure. The first energy source will get its power source from our grid operator Belco which incidentally uses fossil fuels to generate energy for Bermuda and the second energy source will be generated strictly from the use of renewable energy sources. We also intend to introduce the use of innovative technologies such as V2G/V2H that allows bi-directional flow of energy that can utilise the car battery to send energy to both the home or commercial business or the Belco grid.
We intend to offer as part of our consumer and commercial charging solutions using solar carports.
The Solar Steel Carport System is a pre-assembled ground solar mounting system that is ideal for large commercial and utility-scale solar PV projects. The system has been developed to support various photovoltaic modules and can be customised to fit into the parking lot or designed according to specific requirements. The Carport System can protect the cars to avoid damage from sunshine, wind, rainwater, and hurricanes.
What is V2G and V2X ?
V2G stands for “vehicle-to-grid” and is a technology that enables energy to be pushed back to the power grid from the battery of an electric car. With vehicle-to-grid technology, a car battery can be charged and discharged based on different signals — such as energy production or consumption nearby.
V2X means vehicle-to-everything. It includes many different use cases such as vehicle-to-home (V2H), vehicle-to-building (V2B) and vehicle-to-grid. Depending whether you want to use electricity from EV battery to your home or building electrical loads, there are different abbreviations for each of these user cases. Your vehicle can work for you, even when feeding back to grid would not be the case for you.
In a nutshell, the idea behind vehicle-to-grid is similar to regular smart charging. Smart charging, also known as V1G charging, enables us to control the charging of electric cars in a way that allows the charging power to be increased and decreased when needed. Vehicle-to-grid goes one step further, and enables the charged power to also be momentarily pushed back to the grid from car batteries to balance variations in energy production and consumption.
Carports
Model: Carport System
Solar Steel Carport Pre-assembled
Ground Mounting System
Model: Carport II
Solar Carport Mounting System
Model: Carport I
Solar Carport System
EV Battery recycling. Once a battery loses about 20% of its energy generation which happens typically at the end of its warranty period the battery still has the ability 80% of it energy and it can be used for other valuable uses such as providing the battery backup support for solar PV installs.
Conversion of gas diesel engines to electric – This is as an option to recycle the old gas or diesel car after being evaluated so that it if possible we will prevent further pollution either by sending the car to the dump or selling the gas or diesel car to another person which is not helping to reduce our carbon emissions.
EV Battery Recycling
Electric vehicles have the potential to drive down carbon emissions, but they don’t come without problems, and battery waste is particularly serious one.
ZEROe would like to develop a EV battery waste solution with the ultimate goal of making solar power more affordable, and therefore more viable for widespread use.
“There’s still a lot of capacity in the EV battery, but it’s not preferred for the EV application,” . “We can use that remaining capacity for other applications. With solar energy, you don’t have a mileage problem—you just need to provide enough energy storage.”
Electric vehicle battery waste is a growing concern among scientists and environmental advocates. According to the BBC, each EV battery is made up of hundreds of lithium-ion cells, each of which has to be dismantled in order to be recycled.
“In some markets, such as China, health and safety regulation and environmental regulation is much more lax, and working conditions wouldn’t be accepted in a Western context,”.
The Union of Concerned Scientists USA said in a report on EV battery waste that there are currently fewer than a dozen facilities in the world actively recycling electric vehicle batteries. UCSUSA also cites data suggesting that production costs for EV batteries are also environmentally high, with manufacturing contributing 14% to 24% of the global warming emissions for an electric vehicle. By contrast, refining crude oil into automotive gasoline is responsible for 24% of the fuel’s overall greenhouse gas emissions.
In short, the more life that can be squeezed out of an electric vehicle battery, the better, and retired EV batteries aren’t short on capacity. EV batteries are typically replaced while still having up to 85% of their original capacity—more than enough for use in solar energy storage.