New York-based Revel leverages the synergies between urban public charging and ridesharing. The company operates two public EV fast charging Superhubs, and plans to add at least 130 more plugs by the end of 2023. The company launched its electric rideshare service in 2021, and currently has a fleet of about 300 EVs, including Tesla Model Ys and Model 3s and Kia Niro EVs, delivering rides throughout the NYC area.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) recently paid a visit to Revel’s flagship Superhub in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and took a ride in one of the company’s distinctive blue EVs.
“Revel is undertaking something very new and exciting, and that is to lay out charging infrastructure throughout New York, so cars—whether they be cars like Revel’s, or Ubers, or Lyfts, or privately owned cars—can charge up on the streets,” said Senator Schumer. “The Inflation Reduction Act put in over $2.5 billion to help pay for charging stations, Revel’s going to take advantage of that. We have also encouraged electric vehicles with a $7,500 subsidy. We want cars to be made and driven in America.”
“As a Brooklyn-born company, we were honored to have another native of the borough, Majority Leader Schumer, take our one-millionth zero-emission ride and show how electrification is taking hold in New York City,” said Revel co-founder and CEO Frank Reig. “Thanks to the historic Inflation Reduction Act led by Senator Schumer and the Biden Administration, Revel is able to help New York and more dense US cities access EVs faster, lowering transportation emissions and improving local air quality.”
Revel is accessing IRA incentive programs to accelerate the build out of its EV fast charging network and zero-emission fleet. Specifically, Revel cited the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit, as well as the Clean Vehicle Tax Credit. Community grants from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act are also helping to bring public EV infrastructure to underserved neighborhoods in dense cities.
Source: Revel