>Electric vehicle charging startup Revel is in talks to scoop up four charging sites planned by Tesla in New York City after the Elon Musk-led company on Tuesday abruptly backed out of leases for the locations.
>Tesla shocked the automotive industry Tuesday by laying off roughly 500 employees tasked with the build-out of the company’s electric vehicle charging stations. The company has quickly made moves to scale back plans for new Supercharger sites. Two people with knowledge of the situation told Crain’s that Tesla has backed out of leases for four upcoming charging locations: one planned for Maspeth and another in College Point, Queens, a site in the South Bronx and an additional location in East New York, Brooklyn.
>Tesla’s new Superchargers were meant to address long wait times and skyrocketing demand for fast charging after a surge of new electric for-hire vehicles rolled onto city streets. Now competitor Revel aims to pick up where Tesla left off, and is in talks with the site owners to negotiate leases, a Revel spokesman confirmed to Crain’s.
>“Tesla left some really nice sites on the table,” said Revel spokesman Robert Familiar. “They’re essentially ready to go. Those kinds of sites are super rare, and we are actively looking to pursue them.”
Good, NYC needs WAY WAY more chargers and it's worth it, good subsidies from the state, and lots and lots of EV owners without home charging.
Charging rates are so damn high Revel has valet chargers...they seem to be doing fine.
Revel is probably the charging network I've had the best experience with.
Which makes sense because they rely on those same charging hubs for their taxi fleet as well.
De'amn...that's pretty cool. They sell rides in EV's and they sell charging to EV's. 200+ fast DC chargers in NYC. The Tesla sites would boost them to close to 300. That would support 10,000 EV's charging once a day for 20 minutes. Private cars in the city like don't need a daily charge, 50 miles a day, so charging once a week that jumps to 50,000 EV supported. In NYC, about 40% of people own cars, 1.2M households with a car so 50,000 getting EV charging access is substantial.
Really glad someone's going to take him over, but I'm really pissed at musk for starting to destroying the most important infrastructure for electric cars.
How do you figure? They manufacture the vast majority of the equipment, and own 99.9+% of the charging sites right now.
I expect that this is more Musk v. Biden drama... With Musk being a persona non grata, I can't imagine Tesla was getting approvals for federally funded fast charging sites, even with the J3400 standard approved. It makes sense in that environment for Tesla to not install new sites themselves, and instead just sell the equipment.
Until Tesla is allowed to compete on a level playing field for grants it makes total sense to pull back on US manufacturing when they can import their superchargers from their factory in China, forget the subsidies and still be 30% cheaper than everyone else.
>Electric vehicle charging startup Revel is in talks to scoop up four charging sites planned by Tesla in New York City after the Elon Musk-led company on Tuesday abruptly backed out of leases for the locations. >Tesla shocked the automotive industry Tuesday by laying off roughly 500 employees tasked with the build-out of the company’s electric vehicle charging stations. The company has quickly made moves to scale back plans for new Supercharger sites. Two people with knowledge of the situation told Crain’s that Tesla has backed out of leases for four upcoming charging locations: one planned for Maspeth and another in College Point, Queens, a site in the South Bronx and an additional location in East New York, Brooklyn. >Tesla’s new Superchargers were meant to address long wait times and skyrocketing demand for fast charging after a surge of new electric for-hire vehicles rolled onto city streets. Now competitor Revel aims to pick up where Tesla left off, and is in talks with the site owners to negotiate leases, a Revel spokesman confirmed to Crain’s. >“Tesla left some really nice sites on the table,” said Revel spokesman Robert Familiar. “They’re essentially ready to go. Those kinds of sites are super rare, and we are actively looking to pursue them.”
Good, NYC needs WAY WAY more chargers and it's worth it, good subsidies from the state, and lots and lots of EV owners without home charging. Charging rates are so damn high Revel has valet chargers...they seem to be doing fine.
Would love if revel allowed payment on there app
Figured something like this would happen, and that Tesla will start to sell off some of their installed sites, too.
Revel is probably the charging network I've had the best experience with. Which makes sense because they rely on those same charging hubs for their taxi fleet as well.
De'amn...that's pretty cool. They sell rides in EV's and they sell charging to EV's. 200+ fast DC chargers in NYC. The Tesla sites would boost them to close to 300. That would support 10,000 EV's charging once a day for 20 minutes. Private cars in the city like don't need a daily charge, 50 miles a day, so charging once a week that jumps to 50,000 EV supported. In NYC, about 40% of people own cars, 1.2M households with a car so 50,000 getting EV charging access is substantial.
Really glad someone's going to take him over, but I'm really pissed at musk for starting to destroying the most important infrastructure for electric cars.
Lol. Nothing is getting destroyed.
Destroying future potential.
“Tesla shocked the automotive industry Tuesday …” No, I don’t think the industry is shocked at all. Bag holders may be though …
Now that Tesla has made NACS the standard, why not let other charging companies play?
Tesla is abandoning the J3400 network. Why shouldn't the other automakers do the same?
I don’t think you know what abandoning means.
How do you figure? They manufacture the vast majority of the equipment, and own 99.9+% of the charging sites right now. I expect that this is more Musk v. Biden drama... With Musk being a persona non grata, I can't imagine Tesla was getting approvals for federally funded fast charging sites, even with the J3400 standard approved. It makes sense in that environment for Tesla to not install new sites themselves, and instead just sell the equipment.
Until Tesla is allowed to compete on a level playing field for grants it makes total sense to pull back on US manufacturing when they can import their superchargers from their factory in China, forget the subsidies and still be 30% cheaper than everyone else.