Busy shopping places with the fewest EV chargers
Busy shopping places with the fewest EV chargers, scored as charger sites.
What it does
Every quarter: malls and supermarkets in your city with the fewest EV charging stations within 1 km, scored by xMap AI as sites for new chargers, for the city’s EV plan, emailed and mapped.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Oslo, find shopping malls and supermarkets in the area, count the electric vehicle charging stations within 1 km of each, sort them by nearby_count and keep the top 25, score and rank them with xMap AI, sort them by fit score and keep the top 10, then show them on a map and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Drivers charge where they shop. Chargers at busy places with none nearby get used from day one.
Who it is for
Environment, climate & sustainability. Sustainability teams, environmental consultancies, recyclers and city climate offices who need facts about places to act on. Every use case for environment & climate
Best use cases
- A city EV programme
- A charging network
- A mall owner
What each run gives you
- A map
- An email
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 9 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.
- Shopping placesxMap 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.
- EV chargers within 1 kmxMap 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.
- The fewest nearby 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.
- Score each site with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Best 10 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.
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
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
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- 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.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2): Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
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