New York picks Brooklyn startup “it’s electric” to build its 700-charger curbside network
New York City has selected it’s electric, a Brooklyn company that manufactures in Queens, to replace its curbside electric vehicle charging pilot with a permanent network across all five boroughs.
The buildout runs for three years and takes the city from 88 curbside charging points to roughly 700.
The award follows the transport department’s August announcement of the expansion, which set out 600 additional Level 2 points alongside 92 fast chargers and 180 further Level 2 units at municipal parking facilities.
The New York Power Authority procures the equipment and oversees construction; the transport department runs and maintains the network.
The siting is the interesting part. Installations are targeted at neighbourhoods with dense rideshare populations and little off-street parking, which is the specific gap private charging networks have declined to fill.
New York has more than 80,000 rideshare drivers, and most of them park on the street, which is...
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