What you should know
- Revel, the company that operates bike-sharing service in multiple cities across the United States, announced Wednesday that it will build an electric vehicle charging center in Brooklyn in the spring.
- The charging facility will be the first in a network of car charging centers planned to be built in New York City in an effort to promote the use of electric vehicles, company officials, including CEO and co-founder Frank Reig, said. in a press release.
- The initial load center will be on the site of the former Pfizer, in the Williamsburg neighborhood, and will have 30 stations capable of delivering 100 miles of cargo to vehicles in about 20 minutes, the company said. The charging stations will be available 24 hours a day for drivers of any type of electric vehicle, Revel officials said.
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NEW YORK – Revel, the company that operates bike-sharing service in multiple cities across the United States, announced Wednesday that it will build an electric vehicle charging center in Brooklyn in the spring.
The charging facility will be the first in a network of car charging centers planned to be built in New York City in an effort to promote the use of electric vehicles, company officials, including CEO and co-founder Frank Reig, said. in a press release.
The initial load center will be on the site of the former Pfizer, in the Williamsburg neighborhood, and will have 30 stations capable of delivering 100 miles of cargo to vehicles in about 20 minutes, the company said.
The charging stations will be available 24 hours a day for drivers of any type of electric vehicle, Revel officials said.
Founded in 2018, Revel operates 3,000 electric scooters in New York City and another 5,000 in Miami, Washington, DC, and the San Francisco Bay area.
The company’s expansion to charging stations comes amid renewed efforts in the United States to move to gasoline cars. Officials of General Motors announced last week that they had set a goal of making the vast majority of the company’s vehicles electric by 2035.
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