A Brooklyn-based electric mobility and infrastructure company on Monday announced plans to build what it says would be the “largest public fast-charging station in the Western Hemisphere” in Queens.
The station would be among five that Revel plans to build across New York City (except Staten Island), consisting of 136 stalls in total. The “superhub” in the Maspeth neighborhood of Queens will be the largest, with 60 charging stalls. Like its flagship 25-stall station in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, each of the five new stations will be open 24/7 and accessible to any model of electric vehicle, according to the company.
Buildout is expected to be mostly complete late in 2023, with the site in Red Hook, Brooklyn, projected to come online in 2024.
The new facilities will use the widely compatible combined charging system standard and will take 10 to 20 minutes per charge. The company said the hubs will be subject to managed charging, with incentives for EV owners to use.
“The only way mass EV adoption will ever happen in New York City is if the charging infrastructure is there to support it,” Revel CEO and co-founder Frank Reig said in a news release. “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.”
