Dive Brief:
- Georgia-based electric vehicle charging provider EnviroSpark has partnered with AD1 Global to bring charging stations to the hotel management company’s hotels, the companies announced last week in a release obtained by Hotel Dive.
- Through the partnership, EnviroSpark will install and maintain more than 50 charging stations at 17 AD1 Global-managed hotels across Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Connecticut and Maine. The hotels span multiple brands, including Comfort Inn, Holiday Inn, Hyatt Place and Wyndham.
- The partnership is one of several formed in recent months aimed at meeting growing traveler demand for access to EV charging stations.
Dive Insight:
As electric vehicle adoption grows, travelers are calling for a tighter network of charging stations to ease long-distance trips.
As of September, there were roughly 46,000 charging stations in the U.S., compared to around 150,000 gas stations, according to reporting by NPR. That discrepancy is exacerbated by the fact that a driver can typically travel fewer miles on a full EV charge than on a full tank of gas.
Additionally, only 26% of U.S. hotels are building EV charging stations, according to a 2022 report by sustainability data management company Greenview and the American Hotel & Lodging Association.
However, the EV network at hotels is growing, with major chains joining the effort. In May, LNG Electric vowed to bring EV charging stations to more than 13,000 hotels across the country, starting with Marriott and Hilton brand properties in Ohio, Florida and Illinois. By the end of 2022, Marriott had installed 5,500 EV chargers at properties worldwide as part of the renewable energy goals laid out in its Serve 360 ESG initiative.
EnviroSpark Founder and CEO Aaron Luque said the partnership with AD1 Global helps meet the “evolving needs of environmentally conscious travelers who want easy charging options at hotels at all price points.”
Founded in 2014, EnviroSpark has built national networks for Tesla, Volkswagen and Volta and oversees more than 7,200 charging stations.
