Revel: All-electric rides

Revel: Shared Electric Rides

About this app

Our electric mopeds, ebikes and all-Tesla rideshare make getting around easy and fun!

Revel is electrifying cities through charging infrastructure and shared electric vehicle fleets. Through the Revel app, users can rent electric mopeds, sign up for monthly eBike subscriptions, hail an electric car ride or find fast-charging stations compatible with any brand of EV.

Ratings and reviews

Only give this 2 stars, because the cars are Tesla and clean. Drives are professional. However, be ready to wait for 25mins for a ride, because there not enough Revel cars in NYC. Also, Revel has very very poor GPS service. It keeps picking the busiest routes for the drivers, even there are no traffic in alternate routes. Be ready to walk 1 block for some of the pickup/dropoff locations. Can be a problem on rainy & winter season. This can be frustrating

I originally loved this service, but I have two severe criticisms after using it for a month or so: 1. Does not factor in GPS uncertainty. The app sometimes tells me that my location is 50-100 feet away from the scooter when I am touching the scooter. I once paused in a garage and then really struggled to resume 😑 2. Scooters are not reliably turning on (to READY) the last week or more, taking 5 tries or more. I hope it's a bad software update and not evidence of some developing HW issue. 😬

I realize this is a brand new app, but it still needs work. I have a Samsung Galaxy A (android version 11) and it's a mess on it: refuses to initiate if I don't have GPS turned on (you shouldn't need GPS to check payments or input codes!); you can't rate drivers (it just keeps giving you the same review screen over and over after submitting); frequently crashes. The service is fine, the app is not.

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements