Hotels where electric car guests have nowhere to charge

Jordan is an electrician in Denver who installs charging points for electric cars. Hotels are his best customers: guests with electric cars pick the hotel where they can charge overnight. But he cold calls down a list, and most already have chargers or don’t care. Three days a week on the phone bring one job a month. With xMap Flows, Jordan built Socket. Every Monday at seven, across metro Denver, Socket finds every hotel, counts the public chargers within five hundred metres, keeps the hotels with none, puts the best rated first, and emails him the list, with every phone number. On Monday, Socket sends him thirty-four hotels, from Cherry Creek to Aurora, where a guest has nowhere to charge for half a kilometre. Jordan calls ten. Three book a site visit, and two sign before the end of the month. Jordan stopped selling chargers. He started showing hotels what they’re missing.

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