Footage we independently verified indicated Revel had at least 50 vehicles purchased & prepped going into the "First Come, First Served" 400 EV FHV License release last week. Drivers have questions.
I feel that I was among the first and quickest to click and register at 10:02 but was put on the waitlist and informed only by the evening. Definitely not first come first served. Lack of transparency undoubtedly!
Revel has been increasing their fleet before the EV plate allocation. In January, I saw about 200 Tesla Model 3 in the Revel lot. All those cars had plates already, and waiting for TLC inspections. Even if Revel didn't get any allocation of EV plates, I'm sure they would find some plates somewhere.
Yes, that is true and very valid point to bring up! This is the "benefit of the doubt" argument we included in our second question related to whether they bought the vehicles, but also had this backup plan in case they didn't get a large allocation. If they did get a large allocation from last week's process, we still think that raises a lot of questions on how they were able to do that, given the "first come, first served" dynamic that was reported to have 75,000+ competing for 400 TLC Plates.
Two articles we've published previously, if you're interested.
"To be clear, cross-dispatching between vehicles affiliated with different bases is allowed in NYC so there is nothing odd or illegal about that, but rather shows Revel may be forming more partnerships with other FHV fleets and drivers"
"Revel's NYC ridehailing expansion to Brooklyn seems to reveal the company may have acquired a large FHV Corporation belonging to established luxury limo operator Commonwealth Worldwide"
Definitely agree a lot of dots connect (maybe legitimately?) and more clarification & explanation is needed. If Revel got more than 5 or 10 TLC Plates, that wouldn't make sense in general and also based on probability re. 75,000 applying for 400 "one at a time"
I feel that I was among the first and quickest to click and register at 10:02 but was put on the waitlist and informed only by the evening. Definitely not first come first served. Lack of transparency undoubtedly!
Revel has been increasing their fleet before the EV plate allocation. In January, I saw about 200 Tesla Model 3 in the Revel lot. All those cars had plates already, and waiting for TLC inspections. Even if Revel didn't get any allocation of EV plates, I'm sure they would find some plates somewhere.
Yes, that is true and very valid point to bring up! This is the "benefit of the doubt" argument we included in our second question related to whether they bought the vehicles, but also had this backup plan in case they didn't get a large allocation. If they did get a large allocation from last week's process, we still think that raises a lot of questions on how they were able to do that, given the "first come, first served" dynamic that was reported to have 75,000+ competing for 400 TLC Plates.
Two articles we've published previously, if you're interested.
- https://automarketplace.substack.com/p/revel-is-a-top-5-nyc-base-new-ev
"To be clear, cross-dispatching between vehicles affiliated with different bases is allowed in NYC so there is nothing odd or illegal about that, but rather shows Revel may be forming more partnerships with other FHV fleets and drivers"
- https://automarketplace.substack.com/p/-revel-expands-to-brooklyn-analysis
"Revel's NYC ridehailing expansion to Brooklyn seems to reveal the company may have acquired a large FHV Corporation belonging to established luxury limo operator Commonwealth Worldwide"
Good percentage of drivers that managed to submit the form we are all on the "wait-list"
Interesting insight, thanks for sharing!
It was a very unfair process was not transparent
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Definitely agree a lot of dots connect (maybe legitimately?) and more clarification & explanation is needed. If Revel got more than 5 or 10 TLC Plates, that wouldn't make sense in general and also based on probability re. 75,000 applying for 400 "one at a time"