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Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team
Sources familiar with the matter told
Electrek that Tesla backed out of four leases for upcoming Supercharger locations in New York: one in Maspeth, South Bronx, two in Queens, and one in Gateway Center, Brooklyn.
These were new stations recently announced to address concerns with overcrowded Supercharger stations in New York.
We reported on this issue in January when
several stations saw long wait times to access a charger.
The problem was partly due to a surge in Tesla vehicles used by Uber drivers due to a new incentive for the city to electrify its ride-sharing fleet.
In order to address the situation, Tesla promised to deploy 100 additional chargers around New York City by the end of the year and even worked directly with Uber to gather data to locate the new stations at optimal locations.
These four new locations represented the bulk of these planned new stations in the city, and they are gone.
Three of the four sites were “power-ready” – as some work was already being done to prepare them to become charging stations for Tesla.
There’s a silver lining. When contacted, Revel, which operates its own fleet of electric taxis and charging stations in New York, expressed interest in these sites because of their location and capacity for high-volume fast charging stations.