⚡🤔 Who Got The 1,000 New EV-Only TLC Plates? (*UPDATE*)
With ~175 *new* EV-only TLC Plates left to distribute from the 1,000 *new* FHV Licenses, Revel & rental giant Hertz appear to have received large allocations
As promised, we would keep our readers up to date on the distribution of the 1,000 *new* EV-only FHV Licenses (a/k/a TLC Plates), as official data becomes public (i.e., active for-hire vehicles (FHVs) on NYC Open Data).
Since our August 27th article, we believe another 79 *new* EV-only TLC Plates were made active. This now implies 825 of the 1,000 *new* FHV Licenses from March are now active.
As a reminder, shortly after the EV-only FHV License allocation process was complete, the TLC revealed that nearly 45% of the 400 EV TLC Plate allocation went to business entities. It framed the numbers as 174 of 1,000, but as most in the industry knew, the initial 600 (of 1,000) allocation on March 15th was exclusively for individual TLC drivers.
“According to the TLC, 826 of the new plates went to individual drivers while 174 were registered to business entities.”
- New York Daily News
Given both processes were “First Come, First-Served” (“How quick can you click"?) and any individual or entity would have to apply “one at a time” (up to 25 per entity), it was highly unlikely that any individual (or business entity) was going to be able to claim more than 1 FHV License, maybe a few AT MOST.
In addition, the TLC disclosed the 1,000 EV-only TLC Plates had more than 100,000 applications 👀! Probability pointed to maximum individual or business entity allocation of a few EV FHV Licenses, to a few lucky quick-clicking folks and businesses.
“A thousand EV licenses were successfully filled this month, and more than 100,000 applied for the wait list”
- TLC Chair & Commissioner David Do
Using our methodology outlined previously, it now appears 825 of the 1,000 *new* EV-only TLC Plates from March have officially passed inspection. In addition, 156 of the 174 EV-only TLC Plate business entity allocation are now active.
Of the 156 business entity-affiliated *new* EV-only TLC Plates, the allocation is divided as follows:
Top Allocations:
Revel Fleet Corps*: 63
Hertz FHV LLC**: 56
*Includes Revel Fleet Corp I, II, III and IV. All affiliated to Revel base Electric Peppers LLC
**Includes Hertz FHV #1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,14 LLC. 28 vehicles affiliated to Revel base Electric Peppers LLC & 28 vehicles affiliated to Uber USA, LLC
We will continue to track this and share the data.
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