Where do robots charge and stage in LA?
In the LA West Side corridor, 1,183 EV charging stations sit inside the corridor bounding box, from LA Geohub (US DOE AFDC), and 57 city-owned parking lots are mapped by LADOT. Both are verified at the source. But the one fact a robot fleet actually needs, which of those lots and structures has a usable ground-floor electrical outlet, is not published in any of those datasets.
So LA is the best-mapped robot-charging corridor DEPLOY holds, and it still cannot answer, from public data alone, where a delivery robot can reliably plug in overnight.
Figures below are read from the LA West Side corridor record. Each carries its basis. How we verify.
EV charging in the corridor
LA WESTSIDE TIER 3 CHARGING: 1,183 EV charging stations in corridor bbox from LA Geohub (US DOE AFDC source). Examples: LADWP John Ferraro Building 111 N Hope St (338 L2 ports + 12 DCFC), LADWP Truesdale Center 11797 Truesdale St (57 L2 + 2 DCFC), LA Convention Center 1201 S Figueroa St (7 L2). Networks: Shell Recharge, Non-Networked (LADWP), ChargePoint. Total 1,253 alt-fuel stations (includes CNG). Source: services5.arcgis.com/7nsPwEMP38bSkCjy/arcgis/rest/services/Stations_Clip/FeatureServer, queried with corridor bbox + Fuel_Type=ELEC filter.
Source: LA Geohub -- Charging Stations (US DOE AFDC) ArcGIS FeatureServer (dataset). As of 2026-07-22.
Named charging and staging points
Individually logged locations in the corridor, distinct from the bounding-box census above. Each is a verified point from a public charging directory or a confirmed operator site.
| Basis | Location | Address |
|---|---|---|
| Verified | Blink Charging: Ramada Plaza West Hollywood | 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069 |
| Verified | ChargePoint EV stations at Kings Road Municipal Parking (robot staging candidate) | 8383 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 |
| Verified | ChargePoint station: Avalon WeHo WeHo2 in West Hollywood | West Hollywood, CA |
| Verified | ChargePoint: 10 Ocean Park Boulevard | 10 Ocean Park Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405 |
| Verified | ChargePoint: 8560 Sunset Boulevard | 8560 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069 |
| Verified | EV charging infrastructure: LA has most EV drivers (17K+) and ~1600 charging stations. SF Bay Area has ~15K EV drivers. Top 3 EV cities all in CA | Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA |
| Verified | EVGO Fast Charging: 1334 5th Street | 1334 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401 |
| Verified | EVGO Fast Charging: Downtown Lot 29 | 1654 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401 |
| Verified | EVGO Fast Charging: Lincoln Boulevard | 2400 Lincoln Boulevard, Venice, CA 90291 |
| Verified | LA County Sheriff WeHo Station EV chargers (highest checkins in WeHo) | 780 N San Vicente Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 |
| Verified | Plummer Park South EV chargers (public park, robot-accessible) | 1140 N Vista St, West Hollywood, CA 90046 |
| Verified | Santa Monica EV Charging Stations: ChargeHub lists multiple stations | Santa Monica, CA |
| Verified | Serve Robotics depot confirmed in West Hollywood — 150 robots, U-Haul deployment at 5:45 AM | West Hollywood, CA (small warehouse — exact address not published) |
| Verified | Tesla Diner Supercharger: Santa Monica Boulevard | 7001 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069 |
| Verified | Tesla Supercharger: Cloverfield Boulevard | 1819 Cloverfield Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90404 |
| Verified | Tesla Supercharger: Santa Monica Boulevard | 1425 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90404 |
Grain: 16 named points logged inside the corridor, from PlugShare, network locators, and confirmed operator sites. This is the enumerated set, not the 1,183-station bounding-box count.
Where robots can stage
LA WESTSIDE TIER 3 PARKING STAGING: 57 city-owned parking lots in corridor bbox from LADOT Geohub (MapServer/2). Each has name, address, operator, spaces, hours, cost. Examples: Electric Ave & Santa Clara St (Venice, 66 spaces), Broadway St & Spring St (Chinatown, 176 spaces). THIS IS THE ROBOT STAGING CANDIDATE DATASET -- city-owned lots where robots could potentially stage/charge. Ground-floor outlet availability: NOT PUBLISHED in this dataset. Source: maps.lacity.org/lahub/rest/services/LADOT/MapServer/2.
Source: LA Geohub -- City Owned Parking Lots (LADOT MapServer/2) (dataset). As of 2026-07-22.
The ground-floor-outlet gap
Both LA datasets map WHERE the lots and chargers are. Neither publishes the one field a delivery-robot operator needs to plan an overnight charge: which of those lots or structures has a usable ground-floor electrical outlet. That field is undisclosed in every public source we hold. LA is the best-mapped robot-charging corridor in the registry, and it still cannot answer that question from public data alone. See whether any US city maps this.
Robot Operability Index
Atlas · measured and sourced5 of 10 components measured
A composite operability score renders only once all 10 components are measured. The LA West Side corridor has 5 measured from primary sources, so no headline score is shown. The components still missing are the friction-shaped ones, where a number would flatter the corridor by omission.
Not yet measured: Grade and slope, Construction load, 311 friction, Curb and loading access, Transit and EV charging.
Connectivity
286 Mbps
Median mobile download is 286 Mbps across 1,603 Ookla Speedtest tiles measured inside the corridor (13,617 crowdsourced tests, 30 ms median latency, Q4 2025).
Sidewalk width
94%
94% of measured sidewalk segments exceed 3m wide (from a width sample of n=805 drawn across 472,979 mapped segments; median width 4m). The denominator is measured segments, not corridor blocks.
Signalized crossings
3,299
3,299 signalized intersections are mapped inside the corridor bounding box (of 5,483 citywide, LADOT signal locations). The count is signalized intersections in the corridor, not per mile.
Street lighting
114,270
114,270 streetlights are mapped inside the corridor bounding box (of 222,007 citywide, LA Bureau of Street Lighting). The count is mapped fixtures in the corridor, not a lit-block share.
Weather operating days
330 days/yr
330 estimated operating days per year, derived as 365 minus 33 precipitation days minus 0 snow days from NOAA 1991-2020 climate normals. This is a transparent derivation from measured normals, not a field observation.
Sidewalk width distribution
94% of measured sidewalk segments exceed 3m wide (from a width sample of n=805 drawn across 472,979 mapped segments; median width 4m). The denominator is measured segments, not corridor blocks.
Width sample n=805
atlas-operability-v1 · as of 2026-07-22 · values render only from reviewed, sourced rows
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Figures are read live from the LA West Side corridor record. The 1,183 charging stations (LA Geohub, US DOE AFDC) and 57 city-owned parking lots (LADOT) are verified at the source; the ground-floor-outlet field is undisclosed because no public dataset publishes it. The operability decomposition renders only from reviewed, sourced corridor metrics. How we verify
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