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Every photograph on this site is published under the Unsplash License, which allows commercial use without attribution. We record the photographer and the source anyway. Each file was cropped and converted to WebP for the web. No photograph shows a Tesla or Waymo vehicle.

  • hero-deck.webp — Generated image, not a photograph: an empty top-level parking deck at golden hour with a city skyline on the horizon. Made with Midjourney (v7) on Robot Mercantile's account, 2026-09-04, from a prompt describing an empty deck with charging pads. The skyline is invented and is not Charlotte or any real city. No vehicles, no logos, no real location.
  • hero-deck-m.webp — Generated image, not a photograph (the phone version of the hero): an empty parking deck at blue hour with one charging pad in the foreground and a city skyline on the horizon. Same tool, account, and date; skyline invented; no vehicles, no logos, no real location.
  • metro-charlotte.webp — Charlotte, North Carolina skyline at sunset. Brooke Balentine. unsplash.com/photos/EvjudCF6F0I
  • metro-raleigh.webp — Skyline of Raleigh, NC from the Boylan Bridge. Elijah Mears. unsplash.com/photos/SScbTSOJ00E
  • metro-wilmington.webp — Cape Fear Riverwalk, Wilmington, North Carolina. Kevin Dunlap. unsplash.com/photos/jIdbKQyNzX4
  • band-raleigh.webp — Raleigh, North Carolina skyline at sunset. Reba Spike. unsplash.com/photos/ICOLTTjYgaA
  • band-parking.webp, card-parking.webp — An empty parking garage with lettered columns. Declan Sun. unsplash.com/photos/OMLhHXm9eJg
  • band-charging.webp, card-charging.webp — An electric vehicle charging station, plugged in. Haberdoedas. unsplash.com/photos/WBaRzGnZTD0
  • band-stadium.webp — Crowd at a stadium concert at night, Denver. Colin Lloyd. unsplash.com/photos/IGiilWV0f20
  • band-interchange.webp, about-opener.webp — Generated image, not a photograph: an aerial view of a highway interchange at blue hour with headlight trails and a city skyline beyond. Made with Midjourney (v7) on Robot Mercantile's account, 2026-09-04. The skyline is invented and is not Charlotte or any real city. No logos, no real location.
  • band-interchange-2.webp, card-interchange.webp — Aerial view of a highway interchange at night. Paddma Sambhav. unsplash.com/photos/NCOYAer0vLw
  • map-fallback.webp — Static picture behind the live map (shown without JavaScript, under reduced motion, or without WebGL). Drawn by scripts/map-fallback.mjs from U.S. Census Bureau cartographic county boundaries (public domain), drawn to the same bounds as the live map. The live map itself is OpenFreeMap tiles, © OpenMapTiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Files were fetched from the images.unsplash.com CDN on 2026-09-04 and optimized with sharp (WebP, 250 KB or less each).

  • band-pads.webp, card-pads.webp — Generated image, not a photograph: rows of lit inductive charging pads on an empty fleet apron at dawn, light fog, a distribution building in the distance. Made with Midjourney (v7) on Robot Mercantile's account, 2026-09-04. No real location, no vehicles, no logos.
  • band-depot.webp — Generated image, not a photograph: the interior of a fleet depot at night, empty lanes with charging pads and a lit glass office with a blank board. Made with Midjourney (v7) on Robot Mercantile's account, 2026-09-04. No real location, no vehicles, no logos.
  • band-electrical.webp — Generated image, not a photograph: an open electrical switchgear cabinet beside an empty charging apron at first light, plain charging pedestals in the fog. Made with Midjourney (v7) on Robot Mercantile's account, 2026-09-04. No real location, no vehicles, no logos.
  • band-wash.webp — Generated image, not a photograph: a vehicle wash and detailing bay with a wet floor, towels and hose on a rack, and one crew member seen from behind at the far end. Made with Midjourney (v7) on Robot Mercantile's account, 2026-09-04. No real location, no logos.