USA Non-Urban Supercharger Common Host Location Types

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

This is for open Superchargers.

Host location types that are 5% or more of locations.

Now:

Host Type Name	Count	% Count
Mall	225	31.69
Gas Station	141	19.86
Hotel	104	14.65
Grocery Store	85	11.97
Restaurant	52	7.32

Open before 2018:

Host Type Name	Count	% Count
Mall	132	29.27
Hotel	92	20.4
Gas Station	63	13.97
Grocery Store	44	9.76
Restaurant	43	9.53

Open before 2016:

Host Type Name	Count	% Count
Mall	77	31.3
Hotel	57	23.17
Restaurant	29	11.79
Gas Station	17	6.91
Grocery Store	13	5.28
Service Plaza	13	5.28

There's a clear trend to have more Superchargers at grocery stores and gas stations, and fewer at hotels.
Grocery store and regional gas station chains have embraced hosting Superchargers.

Note that classification for some can be a bit tricky.

For example, Mall is a catchall for enclosed malls, open malls, strip malls and mixed-use developments.

I've used parking garage or parking lot to mean a general garage or lot.

For comparison here are data for Superchargers before different years:

 

[KJD]

Nice summary, thanks for putting that together. I kind of prefer the Hotel locations myself, they are often cleaner than the gas station type locations.

I have to wonder if they have a preference list for types of locations or if they just try and find locations with big enough parking lots that the owners are willing to give up a few for the superchargers. Anyone know how the selection process really works ?