Megapower Driving Change Beyond the Vehicle

Jo Edghill - Managing Director, Megapower Limited

June 2018 heralded a significant milestone for Megapower, as we celebrated 5-years of promoting the uptake of electric vehicles powered by renewable sources in Barbados. We are proud of what we’ve achieved so far: electric vehicles are the norm in Barbados’ driving landscape, we have 48 certified electric vehicle technicians, plus over 500kW of solar photovoltaic installations, and the country now has more charging locations than gas stations.

But the best is yet to come. With assistance from Caribbean Export Development Agency, our battery lab will be fully operational in Q1 2019, utilising electric vehicle batteries and renewable energy in a number of applications.

Electric vehicles are the only vehicles that can help the Government of Barbados to achieve its 2030 target of 100% of energy generated from renewable sources. As such, Megapower is committed to playing our part in realizing these targets, thereby supporting sustainable national economic development. We are positioning Barbados to be the first destination in the region where tourists and business travellers are greeted at the airport and cruise terminal by electric taxis and electric buses, branding Barbados as the go-to destination for green tourism – a country that takes zero emissions seriously.

Confident that Barbados is the ideal launchpad for Megapower’s products and services regionally, we are currently engaging private sector groups, governments and electric utilities throughout the Caribbean, from Turks and Caicos in the north to Trinidad in the south.

With environmental sustainability at the heart of our work, our mantra is ‘driving change beyond the vehicle’.