Inspiration
Environmental Impact – Car travel accounts for about 12 percent of the global carbon footprint
Market Growth – EV sales in the United States have climbed by more than 40 percent each year, on average, since 2016
Federal Push – US government has a goal to install 500,000 public chargers by 2030
Growing Demand – Public infrastructure estimated to deliver 20% of total EV electricity use by 2030
What it does
Find optimal locations for placing new EV charging stations based on consumer patterns from external vendors
How we built it
Python and Javascript along with Inrix and Open Charge Map APIs
Challenges we ran into
Managing the logical implementation of finding optimal locations after receiving large amount of potential candidate locations.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Building an end-to-end fullstack app in the given timeframe with a small team.
What we learned
How to ingest and manipulate geospatial data
What's next for Where's my charger?
Adding more data sources and enabling export of the generated data in a standardized format
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