- A Tesla Supercharger station price a whopping $18 million is coming to the Queens borough in New York Metropolis.
- Tesla paid real-estate developer Wildflower for the lot in Queens’ Maspeth neighborhood, public data present.
- NYC’s current charging infrastructure has been overwhelmed by growing variety of electrical rideshare drivers.Â
Tesla has paid actual property developer Wildflower $18 million to amass a chunk of land in New York Metropolis the place it can construct a Supercharger station, public data present.
The deal with for the brand new Queens Supercharger location is 54-20 fiftieth highway. The vendor is listed as Wildflower Industrial LLC and the client is Tesla US Property Holdings, Supercharger Ops. The deed is signed by Max de Zegher, Tesla’s director of charging for North America. Actual-estate information outlet PincusCo was the primary to report on the deal.
Regardless of being one of many largest markets for electrical vehicles within the U.S., NYC has been sluggish to increase its public charging footprint. The issue was exacerbated after mass layoffs at Tesla, which included dismissing your complete 500-member Supercharger group. On the time, a supply aware of town’s real-estate panorama informed InsideEVs that Tesla had opted out of 4 deliberate Supercharger websites within the metropolis. That included one within the South Bronx, one in South Brooklyn and two in Maspeth and Faculty Level, Queens.
A deed filed with town register now reveals that the Maspeth location will get a Supercharger station. Wildflower’s Managing Companion Adam Gordon confirmed the identical in a submit on LinkedIn. “City growth is by definition a course of that requires fixed innovation and inventiveness,” he mentioned. “Town is a piece in course of. Wildflower focuses on subsequent era local weather aware urbanism.”
The Supercharger station, as soon as up and working, would probably play an enormous function in decreasing the burden on the solely two different current free-standing Tesla Supercharger places in the entire of NYC—one at JFK airport and the opposite close to Coney Island on the southern tip of Brooklyn. These chargers have been overcrowded by electrical yellow cab drivers since November final yr.
When the Metropolis of New York handed the Greenrides Initiative final yr, it mandated all new for-hire autos (FHV) to go electrical. The New York Metropolis Taxi and Limousine Fee (TLC), the company chargeable for licensing yellow taxi cabs, noticed a surge in FHV purposes after that. By March 2024, NYC commuters had already taken some two million electrical journeys, saving some 731,000 gallons of fuel.
However this got here at a price. An InsideEVs investigation on the time discovered that rideshare Tesla drivers needed to wait as much as 90 minutes on the South Brooklyn Supercharger station on account of lengthy strains and overcrowding. The opposite stations had been both too far, or required pay-to-park charges. One Uber driver mentioned she earned between $35-40 per hour and was dropping enterprise on account of lengthy ready occasions.
Nevertheless, the Metropolis of New York is shifting slowly to resolve these points. Final week, NYC’s Division of Transportation introduced two new DC fast-charging places the place drivers licensed by the Taxi and Limousine Fee are extremely concentrated. It is putting in 4 quick chargers every on the White Plains Municipal Area in The Bronx and Bensonhurst Municipal Area in South Brooklyn. The previous is ready to open in November 2024 and the latter in January 2025.
That is along with the charging stations ride-hail start-up Revel is constructing throughout town. One in every of its places close to LaGuardia Airport will probably be America’s largest charging station by an airport, the place 48 200-kilowatt charging dispensers are set to open within the first half of 2025. Google-backed start-up Gravity additionally not too long ago opened a fast-charging station within the coronary heart of Manhattan, close to Instances Sq..Â
