September 23, 2021
New York City needs a lot of EV chargers. How can its power grid support them all?
Startup Revel’s Brooklyn superhub is the first of many charging centers NYC will need to meet its EV goals. Can it be replicated at scale?
For New York City to have any chance of fulfilling its ambitious electric vehicle plans, it’s going to need a lot more EV-charging sites like Revel’s “superhub.” Located in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the superhub has 25 fast chargers — the most universally usable high-speed chargers at any single site in the nation, according to Paul Suhey, Revel’s co-founder and head of rideshare and EV.
But how will charging sites like these find enough power on the already-congested grid that serves the country’s most densely populated major city?
