BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Maybe you can’t get a vaccine,
but at least you can
charge your electric car!
Brooklyn e-scooter sharing
company Revel plans to
open a large electric vehicle
charging facility at the former
Pfi zer factory at the Williamsburg
Bedford-Stuyvesant border,
the company announced
on Wednesday.
The company known for
their omnipresent dockless
blue scooters calls their new
facility a fast-charging “superhub,”
which will live at the
former pharmaceutical plant
on Flushing Avenue between
Marcy and Tompkins avenues
— with 30 stations that will
feed direct current into any
brand of electric vehicle, according
its chief.
“Revel is building the infrastructure
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of the future and
we’re building it now – our
planet can’t wait,” said the
company’s co-founder and
chief executive offi cer Frank
Reig in a statement on Feb. 3.
“We couldn’t be more excited
to bring fast charging to our
home borough of Brooklyn and
get to work on the fi rst of many
Superhubs to come in 2021.”
The chargers will be available
to the public 24-7, and are
the recently-launched RTM75
models by the company Tritium.
The machines can pump
enough juice into electric vehicles
to travel 100 miles after
a mere 20-minute hook-up, and
a full charge costs about $20,
according to a Revel spokesperson.
The fi rst 10 chargers will
go live this spring, and the
company will install the remaining
20 by the end of summer,
according to the spokeswoman.
The hub is slated to be the
largest of its kind in North
America, and marks a new
business venture for Revel
— which plans to expand its
product offerings beyond the
scooters in the coming months
as part of its “mission to electrify
cities like New York,” the
company’s statement said.
The spokeswoman declined
to say how much the expansion
cost, noting only that the
company raised $40 million
in funding during the last few
years.
The new outpost is at the
former factory of Pfi zer — the
drug giant known for producing
Revel’s planned electric vehicle charging facility at the old Pfi zer plant
on Flushing Avenue. Revel
Viagra, Zoloft, and more
recently, a COVID-19 vaccine
— which lived in the borough
for 150 years before moving
out in 2007 and selling the old
plant to real estate fi rm Acumen
Capital Partners in 2011.
Acumen Capital has since
transformed it into a manufacturing
space for more than
100 tenants, including artists,
tech companies, fashion designers,
artisanal food producers,
education providers,
and media companies.
Revel will not use the
new stations to charge its
3,000-strong fl eet of batterypowered
scooters, which the
transportation fi rm will still
recharge at its warehouse, according
to a spokeswoman.
The startup fi rst rolled out
in Bushwick in 2018 before
spreading to more parts of
Brooklyn and other boroughs
during the following years,
and became even more popular
this summer with many
riders seeking alternatives to
subways and buses for fear of
contracting COVID-19.
Revving up
Revel to open electric car charging
‘superhub’ at old Pfi zer factory
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