“Hundreds of thousands of rideshare and taxi trips go in and out of Manhattan every day. With our new Pier 36 Charging Station, Revel is bringing the fastest charging on the market directly to those drivers so they can access EVs easier — saving them money and saving us all from breathing in more needless car pollution,” said Frank Reig, Revel’s co-founder and CEO. “This is our first deployment of Kempower chargers, bringing the highest speeds and reliability to our network. We're looking forward to adding them to more sites in the future."
Located right off the FDR Drive, this strategic EV fast charging site will become a highly sought-after EV charging hub in North America; particularity useful to the more than 100,000 rideshare drivers electrifying under New York City’s Green Rides Initiative. The City of New York requires the city's rideshare fleet to be made up of either zero-emission vehicles or wheelchair accessible vehicles by 2030. Under the proposed guidelines, NYC will become the first large city in the world to have a rideshare fleet that is entirely zero-emissions or wheelchair accessible.
Revel is installing a total of 10 Kempower Satellite chargers connected to Kempower Power Units, five Kempower Satellite chargers with CCS1 (320kW max) and five Kempower Satellite charges with NACS (280kW max). These fast chargers will be available to the public 24/7 and can charge any model EV, with both CCS and NACS plugs. Revel’s Pier 36 Charging Station incorporates climate-resilient design, with electrical equipment built above the flood plain.
