Boutique Luxury Lodging Association/El-Monde EV Platform, Sponsored Survey Quantifies Importance of Charging Amenity for Boutique Hotels

LOS ANGELES – Two different industry innovators, the Boutique and Luxury Lodging Association (BLLA) and electric vehicle charging upstart, El-Monde, decided to quantify the growing significance of an EV charging amenity for lodging businesses in the US. She commissioned BrandAgent Research to survey 300 EV drivers. Today's results were a resounding affirmation that offering EV charging to the traveling public is increasingly necessary and beneficial for travel lodging businesses.

The survey showed that nine out of ten EV drivers are more likely to stay at a boutique hotel offering EV charging, and almost three out of four are willing to pay a premium lodging price for the service. The resounding results confirm the opinion of Nicolas Graf, Dean at NYU’s Tisch Center of Hospitality, who recently said: I think EV charging will be very similar to the adoption of WiFi. Hotel owners understand that there are new things customers expect to have, which become part of the cost of doing business.

The survey also had several additional nuggets that should encourage lodging enterprises to adopt EV charging stations. 80% of respondents said they are willing to travel farther for EV-friendly lodging, and 98% would be willing to tell their EV-driving friends about their EV-friendly accommodations. Regarding messaging, 65% of respondents felt a free EV charging offer would be an enticing promotional offer. As for what social media sites the EV travel crowd preferred, there was a two-way tie between Facebook and YouTube, with Instagram being a close third.

This survey is what BLLA's mission is all about, to understand better our customer motives for the benefit of our members. The clear takeaway is that EV charging availability is no longer an "optional" amenity.Frances Kiradjian, Founder and CEO of BLLA (the Boutique and Luxury Lodging Association)

The survey findings validated what we have anecdotally discovered ...that boutique and other hotel patrons are becoming stridently presumptive regarding onsite availability of EV charging stations. Romit Choudhury, founder & CEO of El-Monde, a next-generation EV charging company dedicated to the hospitality sector

The complete survey can be accessed by requesting a copy from info@blla.org.

About El-Monde

Founded by Amazon, Google, and VW execs, El-Monde (meaning the world) has taken a novel approach that enables private EV Charger owners to share and earn money from visiting drivers. El-Monde is revolutionizing the EV Charging experience at hospitality destinations, offering an AI-enabled customer-centric platform that manages charging end-to-end and integrates with tailored workflows. The Company is focused on new, convenient destination stops in the hospitality and entertainment industries, including boutique and luxury hotels, destination golf courses, and ski resorts as primary customers. Founded in early 2024, El-Monde already has over five thousand private EV charger hosts on the platform. For more information, visit El-Monde, an officially approved vendor partner of BLLA.