Revel to open five additional public EV fast charging stations in NYC
Electric charging infrastructure and rideshare specialist Revel is making good on its word to deliver more EV fast charger hubs to the United States. Today, the company announced plans for five additional “Superhubs” across multiple NYC boroughs. By adding well over 100 new fast charger stalls, Revel looks to significantly bolster its network in The Big Apple and triple the amount of publicly available fast chargers in the metropolitan area.
Revel is a Brooklyn-based company that aims to accelerate EV adoption by providing the necessary infrastructure and coinciding services to help ensure the public goes electric more easily. You may recognize the name from the sky blue Tesla Model Y taxis that it started putting into operation around New York in 2021.
However, another key element of Revel’s business strategy is charging infrastructure – developing and installing level 3 chargers across populated urban areas. So far, Revel’s fast chargers have supported its fleet of over 200 Tesla taxis but are also publicly available to EV drivers looking to recharge around NYC.
To date, Revel has fewer than 30 fast charging stalls across the city but has remained public about its intentions to expand throughout New York and beyond. The company has toured its flagship Superhub in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, as the largest public fast-charging depot in North America, but Revel still intends to open additional hubs in 2023.
Before then however, Revel has shared plans to further expand its network of fast chargers in NYC, including a new 60 stall Superhub in Queens.
Revel expands NYC charging network including Superhhub
Revel shared details plans today for its five new charging hubs across the five boroughs, alongside a an interactive digital map of every public fast charging station in NYC (seen above). This includes all existing charging sites (Revel and not), in addition to the five new Revel charger sites on the way. Here’s how the new sites break down:
- 60 stalls in Maspeth, Queens
- 30 stalls in Port Morris, The Bronx
- 20 stalls in Red Hook, Brooklyn
- 16 stalls at the historic Dime building in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn
- 10 stalls at Pier 36 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan
When complete, Revel’s network of chargers in NYC will total over 160 stalls, giving the company an 80% chunk of the city’s current public fast charging infrastructure, according to data from Plugshare.
With 60 charging stalls, Revel also expects its Maspeth Superhub to become the largest public, universally-accessible fast charging station in the Western Hemisphere when complete. Additionally, the planned Bronx site will be the only public fast charger hub in the entire borough. Not bad for a small, privately owned company. Revel founder and CEO Frank Reig spoke:
The only way mass EV adoption will ever happen in New York City is if the charging infrastructure is there to support it. We need high-volume, public sites in the neighborhoods where people actually live and work, and that’s exactly what Revel is delivering with our growing Superhub network. This is the biggest fast charging expansion our city has ever seen, and it’s a huge step toward making our EV transition a reality.
Revel states that the Maspeth, Port Morris, South Williamsburg, and Lower East Side Superhubs will open to the public by the end of 2023, while the Red Hook site will follow sometime in 2024.
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EV sales kept up their momentum in December 2024, with incentives playing a big role, according to the latest Cox Automotive’s Kelley Blue Book report.
December’s strong EV sales saw an average transaction price (ATP) of $55,544, which helped push the industry-wide ATP higher, according to Kelley Blue Book. The December ATP for an EV was higher year-over-year by 0.8%, slightly below the industry average, and higher month-over-month by 1.1%. Tesla ATPs were higher year-over-year by 10.5%.
Incentives for EVs remained elevated in December, although they were slightly lower month-over-month at 14.3% of ATP, down from 14.7% in November.
EV incentives were higher by an impressive 41% year-over-year and have been above 12% of ATP for six consecutive months. Strong sales incentives, which averaged more than $6,700 per sale in 2024, were one reason EV sales surpassed 1.3 million units last year, according to Cox Automotive, a new record for volume and share.
(My colleague Jameson Dow reported yesterday, “In 2024, the world sold 3.5 million more EVs than it did in the previous year … This increase is larger than the 3.2 million increase in EV sales from the previous year – meaning that EV sales aren’t just up, but that the rate of growth is itself increasing.”)
Kelley Blue Book estimated that in December, approximately 84,000 vehicles – or 5.6% of total sales – transacted at prices higher than $80,000 – the highest volume ever. KBB lumps gas cars and EVs together into this luxury vehicle category, so this is where Tesla Cybertruck is slotted.
However, Tesla bundles sales figures of Cybertruck with Model S, Model X, and Tesla Semi(!) into a category it calls “other models,” so we don’t know for sure exactly how many Cybertrucks Tesla sold in Q4, much less in December. However, Electrek‘s Fred Lambert estimates between 9,000 and 12,000 Cybertrucks were sold in Q4, and that’s not a stellar sales figure.
What will January bring when it comes to EV ATPs? What about tax credits? Check back in a month and I’ll fill you in.
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Tesla is now claiming that Cybertruck was the ‘best-selling electric pickup in US’ last year despite not even reporting the number of deliveries.
There’s a lot of context needed here.
As we often highlighted, Tesla is sadly one of, if not the most, opaque automakers regarding sales reports.
Tesla doesn’t break down sales per model or even region.
For comparison, here’s Ford’s Q4 2024 sales report compared to Tesla’s:
You could argue that Tesla has fewer models than Ford, and that’s true, but Tesla’s report literally has two lines despite having six different models.
There’s no reason not to offer a complete breakdown like all other automakers other than trying to make it hard to verify the health of each vehicle program.
This has been the case with the Cybertruck. Tesla is bundling its Cybertruck deliveries with Model S, Model X, and Tesla Semi deliveries.
Despite this lack of disclosure, Tesla has been able to claim that the Cybertruck has become “the best-selling electric pickup truck” in the US in 2024:
It very well might be true. Ford disclosed 33,510 F-150 Lightning truck deliveries in the US in 2024 while most estimates are putting Cybertruck deliveries at around 40,000 units.
Those are global deliveries, but Tesla only delivered the Cybertruck in the US, Canada, and Mexico in 2024, and most of the deliveries are believed to be in the US.
However, there’s essential context needed here, as we highlighted in our recent ‘Tesla Cybertruck sales are disastrous‘ article.
First off, Tesla had a backlog of over 1 million reservations for the Cybertruck that it has been building since 2019. This led many to believe Tesla already had years of demand baked in for the truck and that production would be the constraint.
However, based on estimates, again, because Tesla refuses to disclose the data, Cybertruck deliveries were either flat or down in Q4 versus Q3 despite Tesla introducing cheaper versions of the vehicle and ramping up production.
Again, that’s after just about 40,000 deliveries.
Furthermore, with almost 11,000 deliveries in Q4 in the US, Ford more likely than not outsold Cybertruck with the F-150 Lightning in Q4.
Electrek’s Take
Tesla is in damage control here. There’s no doubt that it is having issues selling the Cybertruck.
Inventory is full of Cybertrucks and Tesla is now discounting them and offering free lifetime Supercharging.
Tesla is great at ramping up production, and it’s clear the Cybertruck is not production-constrained anymore. It is demand-constrained despite having over 1 million reservations.
Again, those reservations were made before Tesla unveiled the production version, which happened to have less range and cost significantly more.
The upcoming cheaper single motor version should help with demand, but I have serious doubts Tesla can ramp this program up to more than 100,000 units in the US.
As a reminder, Tesla installed a production capacity of 250,000 units annually and Musk said he could see Tesla selling 500,000 Cybertrucks per year.
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