State-of-the-Artwork DC Quick Charging Hub at Pier 36 in Decrease Manhattan, New York Metropolis

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Kempower Supplies EV Quick Charging Options for Revel at Pier 36 in Manhattan, Quickest Charging Station in NYC

Decrease Manhattan, NY — In a monumental leap in direction of sustainable city mobility Kempower and Revel, the main supplier of public quick charging in New York Metropolis; celebrated the opening of state-of-the-art DC quick charging hub at Pier 36 in Decrease Manhattan, New York Metropolis.

The set up was celebrated on Thursday, 25^th September 2024, throughout a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Revel’s latest charging station commissioned by Kempower.

“A whole lot of 1000’s of rideshare and taxi journeys go out and in of Manhattan each day. With our new Pier 36 Charging Station, Revel is bringing the quickest charging in the marketplace on to these drivers to allow them to entry EVs simpler — saving them cash and saving us all from respiration in additional pointless automobile air pollution,” mentioned Frank Reig, Revel’s Co-Founder & CEO. “That is our first deployment of Kempower chargers, bringing the best speeds and reliability to our community. We’re wanting ahead to including them to extra websites sooner or later.”

Situated proper off the FDR Drive, this strategic EV quick charging website will change into a extremely sought-after EV charging hub in North America; particularity helpful to the greater than 100,000 rideshare drivers electrifying underneath New York Metropolis’s Inexperienced Rides Initiative. The Metropolis of New York requires the town’s rideshare fleet to be made up of both zero-emission autos or wheelchair accessible autos by 2030.  Beneath the proposed pointers, NYC will change into the primary massive metropolis on the earth to have a rideshare fleet that’s fully zero-emissions or wheelchair accessible.

“This primary-ever overwater EV charging website is located within the Decrease East Facet over the East River, between the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges,” mentioned Jed Routh, VP of Markets and Merchandise, North America. “This prime location ensures most comfort for drivers, additional encouraging the shift in direction of electrical autos. Kempower’s dynamic load sharing expertise and well-designed user-interface makes charging extraordinarily simple for EV drivers.”

In regards to the Pier 36 charging hub:

• Revel is putting in a complete of 10 Kempower Satellite tv for pc chargers linked to Kempower Energy Unit
• 5 Kempower Satellite tv for pc chargers with CCS1 (320kW max)
• 5 Kempower Satellite tv for pc fees with NACS (280kW max)
• These quick chargers will probably be obtainable to the general public 24/7 and may cost any mannequin EV, with each CCS and NACS plugs.
• Revel’s Pier 36 Charging Station incorporates climate-resilient design, with electrical gear constructed above the flood plain.

Courtesy of Kempower.