Where EV demand is growing, for my showroom
Where new chargers are appearing and who lives around them, every month.
What it does
Every month: chargers that opened in the last year, every part of the city searched, the people around each, the 20 busiest areas, emailed and mapped.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Oslo, find electric vehicle charging stations in the area, count who lives around, sort them by population and keep the top 20, then email the list to you and show them on a map.
Why it is useful
New chargers follow EV owners. Where they appear shows where electric cars are selling, and where a showroom or test drive event should go.
Who it is for
Automotive & mobility. Car dealers, rental, parts suppliers and mobility operators following drivers and the places they go. Every use case for automotive & mobility
Best use cases
- An EV brand planning showrooms
- A car dealer adding EVs
- An EV leasing company
What each run gives you
- An email with the list
- A map of the results
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- New chargersxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Who lives aroundxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
- Best 20 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- Compare sites side by side: Two or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
- An instant site report of any spot: Paused for now while xMap improves the data behind it. Reports already made still open.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Catchment area: The area a store or service draws its customers from.
- Drive time vs radius: Two ways to draw the area around a site, and when each is good enough.
More for Automotive & mobility
- New garages and tyre shops on my van routes: New garages and tyre shops sorted by what they do, scored and sent to the right van route.
- Where to put scooter and bike hubs: The blocks for scooter and bike hubs, near stations and people, approved every month.
- Busy spots with the fewest car washes: Busy supermarkets and malls with the fewest car washes around, every month.
- How rival dealers are rated around mine: How buyers rate the rival dealers around each of your dealerships.
- Busy places that need more parking: Busy places with the fewest car parks around, every month.
- Body shops for my paint and refinish products: Body and paint shops by kind, with the owner.