# Where do robots charge? The infrastructure map.

**Verdict:** Robots charge and stage wherever a city already has EV chargers and parking, but the public data thins out fast at exactly the point a fleet needs it. The best-mapped corridor DEPLOY holds is the LA West Side: 1,183 EV charging stations (LA Geohub, US DOE AFDC) and 57 city-owned parking lots (LADOT), both verified. San Francisco publishes the widest parking inventory, 1,406 off-street locations (SFMTA). No US city publishes the one field an operator needs: which of those lots has a usable ground-floor electrical outlet.

## Key figures

| Figure | Value | Basis | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA West Side EV charging stations | 1,183 | verified | LA Geohub -- Charging Stations (US DOE AFDC) ArcGIS FeatureServer |
| LA city-owned parking lots | 57 | verified | LA Geohub -- City Owned Parking Lots (LADOT MapServer/2) |
| SF off-street parking locations | 1,406 | verified | SF DataSF -- SFMTA Off-Street Parking Locations (mizu-nf6z) |
| Cities publishing ground-floor-outlet data | 0 | undisclosed | no public dataset |

## Start here

- [Where do robots charge and stage in LA?](/where-do-robots-charge-and-stage-in-la.md): the deepest single-corridor record.
- [Do US cities map where robots stage and charge?](/do-us-cities-map-where-robots-stage-and-charge.md): the honest-absence answer with the staging-gap chart.

## What this hub will map next

Two spokes are planned and not yet built, so they are named rather than linked: a how-robots-charge capability explainer, and place pages for the other tracked corridors as their charging records deepen. Honest absence, not an oversight.

## See also

- [Where do delivery robots operate?](/where-do-delivery-robots-operate.md)
- [Verified deployments](/verified-deployments.md)

_Figures are read live from DEPLOY corridor records; each carries its basis. canonical URL: /where-do-robots-charge_