Revel introduced that it’s shutting down its ride-hailing service in New York, which was powered by modified Tesla Mannequin Y automobiles.
Curiously, it was mainly Tesla’s present Robotaxi app.
Revel began with a ride-sharing fleet of electrical scooters, however in 2021, it expanded right into a ride-hailing fleet of Tesla Mannequin Y automobiles in New York.
It’s primarily the identical because the service Tesla not too long ago launched within the Bay Space of California, which it known as “Robotaxi.”
Revel’s system was significantly fascinating because it used modified Mannequin Ys with the entrance passenger seat eliminated in among the automobiles within the fleet to present more room to the rear passengers:
Over the previous few years, Revel has entered the charging enterprise. Initially, it was primarily to cost its personal increasing fleet of electrical automobiles, but it surely regularly expanded into massive public charging stations.
After Tesla CEO Elon Musk stupidly fired the automaker’s total charging group, Revel employed a number of of them to increase its charging community.
It’s now working 5 large-scale stations round New York Metropolis and one in San Francisco.
This week, Revel is shutting down its ride-hailing fleet to give attention to its charging enterprise.
Revel co-founder and CEO Frank Reig commented on TechCrunch:
“We now have made the tough resolution that one of the simplest ways we will maintain the EV transition transferring ahead is by ending our rideshare service and specializing in constructing the quick charging infrastructure our greatest cities have to maintain going electrical.”
The corporate will promote its 165 electrical automobiles, primarily Tesla Mannequin Ys and Kia Niro EVs, in addition to all its “for-hire automobile license plates,” that are valued at as much as $25,000 every.
Electrek’s Take
I might see Tesla shopping for their for-hire license plates to launch its “Robotaxi” app in New York, prefer it does within the Bay Space – aka ride-hailing with the driving force utilizing Tesla FSD.
Robotaxi in Austin will not be that removed from it too with the supervising driver being moved to the passenger entrance seat.
Revel shut down the service as a result of it’s not worthwhile at this scale, and Tesla is heading the identical route with its Robotaxi service if it might probably’t make them absolutely autonomous, that means with out supervision.
It took Uber years to realize the dimensions to be worthwhile and Tesla is beginning with simply small fleets of 10-20 automobiles as a result of that’s all it might probably assist till it might probably obtain absolutely autonomy, which is at all times supposedly proper across the nook for the automaker.
