U.S. micro-mobility group Revel is to launch a new ride-hailing service in NYC featuring an employee-driven fleet of custom Tesla electric cars. It will soon begin operating below 42nd street in Manhattan.
Revel is also rolling-out a network of fast-charging superhubs. The company says: ‘By combining our own fleet of Revel-owned electric rideshare vehicles with our Superhubs, we’re able to build the infrastructure that cities need to electrify today’.
In a blog, Paul Suhey, Revel Co-Founder and COO, writes: ‘Superhubs reduce per-charger development costs and Revel’s electric rideshare provides the utilization needed from day one. Because we’re decoupling charger utilization from broad consumer EV adoption, we can accelerate that buildout of Superhubs. Once Superhubs are built, consumers will be more comfortable buying an EV knowing that convenient, 24/7 access to fast charging infrastructure exists’.
He adds: ‘Rideshare is the chicken, Superhub is the egg. Or maybe it’s the other way around. We haven’t decided on that one yet’.
Revel has previously only supplied e-bikes and electric mopeds.
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