Revel opens first EV fast-charging hub in San Francisco

Brooklyn-based electrical automobile charging infrastructure startup Revel on Monday launched its first fast-charging station in San Francisco, kicking off its plans to broaden throughout the Bay Space over the subsequent 12 months. 

“For years, Revel has operated the biggest, quickest, and most dependable fast-charging community in New York Metropolis,” Frank Reig, co-founder and CEO of Revel, mentioned in a press release. “Now we’re bringing our mannequin to the primary EV market in North America.”

The Bay Space has a few of the highest charges of EV possession within the nation. In 2024, greater than 35% of new vehicle sales in San Francisco have been electrical, in comparison with the national average of round 8%.

Revel’s first West Coast charging station is within the metropolis’s Mission District, and it options 12 chargers with 320 kW capability, constructed by EV charging firm Kempower. Like Revel’s stations throughout New York Metropolis, these will probably be publicly accessible 24/7 to any make and mannequin of EV. 

The corporate mentioned it has plans so as to add greater than 125 chargers to the city facilities of San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and South Francisco over the subsequent 12 months. 

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who lower the ribbon at Revel’s opening Monday, mentioned the brand new chargers will make it simpler for residents to make the swap to EVs. 

Revel’s San Francisco launch comes every week after the startup opened 24 new chargers at John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport in New York Metropolis, situated inside the airport’s for-hire automobile maintain lot. 

Final month, Revel secured a $60 million loan from New York’s clear power funding fund NY Inexperienced Financial institution to greater than triple its fast-charging community within the metropolis. The corporate mentioned it hopes to broaden to 300 chargers in New York by the tip of this 12 months, together with a 60-stall website in Maspeth, Queens and a 48-stall website outdoors of LaGuardia Airport. 

“Our mission at Revel is to convey dependable fast-charging to dense city areas the place EVs can have the largest affect on high quality of life, however the place charging is hardest to return by,” Paul Suhey, co-founder and COO of Revel, mentioned in a press release.