As a multinational company in the hospitality industry, this Southern California hotel puts their guests first by offering electrical vehicle charging on more than 3,000 of their worldwide locations, while achieving their own sustainability goals.
The Challenge
With electric vehicle adoption taking over the world by storm, the demand for electric vehicle charging infrastructure is expected to grow. For one hotel located in Southern California, EV charging perfectly aligned with their beliefs in sustainability and reducing their carbon footprint.
Being one of the largest single operators of hotels in the world, this forward-thinking hotel chain understood the negative impact the hospitality business can have on the environment and decided to integrate more sustainable practices across their value chain to mitigate climate-related risk.
In addition to their ambitious impact goals, the hotel wanted to support the increasing number of EV drivers among their guests and hotel staff. By offering EV charging as an amenity, not only would they establish sustainability leadership, the effort would advance the hotel’s ongoing quest to stay ahead of the competition, attract more guests, and improve customer satisfaction.
The Solution
Once their sustainable initiatives launched and the decision for the project was finalized, the hotel applied for and secured additional funding through Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Charge Ready Pilot program. The program allowed SCE to partner with businesses, local governments, and other organizations to help increase the availability of electric vehicle charging, providing rebates towards the purchase of charging infrastructure as well as offset installation costs.
Through the hotel’s collaboration with the Charge Ready Pilot Program, they also partnered with EV Connect for their hardware-agnostic open network software which enabled the hotel to choose scalable and flexible charging hardware that best fit the hotel’s needs EV Connect’s powerful, software management platform connects drivers to charging stations, site owners to their ports, utilities to demand data, and service providers to their networks.
With EV Connect simplifying the set-up, management, and charging station optimization, the hotel was able to scale EV charging on their own terms and ensured a seamless experience.
The Result
Community response was phenomenal. The hotel’s decision to install EV charging, has driven a steady stream of new travelers to stop by the hotel’s lounge and restaurant, as well as attracted many overnight guests.
Installing EV charging is an emerging trend for environmentally proactive companies. As the hotel continues to collaborate with their associates, hotel owners, franchisees, brands, suppliers, business partners and guests, they’ll be able to actively reduce the environmental impact of and risk to their business by constructing and operating sustainable hotels.
Southern California Edison is relaunching their Charge Ready Program this summer with additional funding. The largest light-duty electric vehicle charging program is providing funding for 38,000 EV chargers over the next four years to support California’s shift to electrifying transportations. Being an approved network provider under the program, EV Connect is here to make both the management and use of charging infrastructure easy and help hotels and property owners meet the growing demand for EV charging.
