Truck depots for electric fleet charging hubs

Truck depots with the fewest chargers, as electric charging hub sites.

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What it does

Every quarter: trucking and logistics companies in your region, each with the EV chargers within 2 km, the ones with the fewest first, as sites for shared electric truck charging hubs.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Warsaw, find trucking companies and logistics services in the area, count the electric vehicle charging stations within 2 km of each, sort them by nearby_count and keep the top 20, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Electric trucks need chargers where the depots are. Clusters of depots with no chargers are the best hub sites.

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 truck charging network
  • A logistics park developer
  • A utility planning grid upgrades

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: 7 blocks.

The flow, block by block

  1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
  2. My regionWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
  3. Truck depotsxMap 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.
  4. EV chargers within 2 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
  7. 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.

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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

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