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Used Electric Vehicles Outperform the Entire Wholesale Market, and Charging Demand Changes Address
The Manheim EV Index rose 12 percent year over year against 1.7 percent for the rest of the market. Used EV buyers lack home charging, relocating demand to multifamily, workplace, and retail sites. ...more
EV Market Signals
July 15, 2026•4 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/15/26 Edition)
Four states moved against data center power subsidies in ten days, PJM finalizes interconnection rules, and brownfield sites with live grid connections become the most contested real estate in electri... ...more
EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup
July 14, 2026•12 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/07/26 Edition)
July 4th's clean energy credit deadline passed, transformer lead times held at two to four years, used EVs neared price parity with gas cars, and data centers became the largest category of commercial... ...more
EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup
July 07, 2026•12 min read
Amazon's 50,000 Chargers and the End of the Hardware-First Era
Amazon now runs 30,000 electric vans and 50,000 chargers and uses AI on the data to move past break-even total cost of ownership. With 70% of new depot installs using load management, fleet charging h... ...more
EV Charging in Real Places
July 07, 2026•6 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (07/01/26 Edition)
Weekly structural analysis of U.S. commercial electricity rates, data center power constraints, fleet depot charging load management, and solid-state transformer tech. ...more
EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup
June 30, 2026•12 min read
When Uncontrolled Charging Quadruples Your Peak Demand
Charging 60 trucks at a depot without load management raised peak demand from 1 MW to 4 MW, per RMI. Why fleet charging is a building electrical and demand-charge decision, not a vehicle decision, for... ...more
EV Charging in Real Places
June 23, 2026•5 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (06/24/26 Edition)
Weekly structural analysis of U.S. commercial electricity rates, data center power constraints, fleet depot charging load management, and solid-state transformer tech. ...more
EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup
June 23, 2026•11 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (6/17/26 Edition)
Grid reliability, utility rate hikes, data center demand, and evolving energy policy. Explore the biggest developments shaping commercial real estate, electrification, and energy resilience this week. ...more
EV Market Signals ,EV Charging in Real Places Data Center Demand and Innovation Solar, Storage and VPPs Local Governance and Federal Policy Grid Stress, Storms and Resilience Economics Policy and Market Rules Electrification Economics at the Property Level &Electrification Roundup
June 17, 2026•16 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (06/10/26 Edition)
Power access defines winners in this week's energy market. Explore how surging utility rate hikes and local data center moratoriums are reshaping property economics, and why onsite generation is becom... ...more
EV Market Signals ,EV Charging in Real Places Data Center Demand and Innovation Solar, Storage and VPPs Local Governance and Federal Policy Grid Stress, Storms and Resilience Economics Policy and Market Rules Electrification Economics at the Property Level &Electrification Roundup
June 09, 2026•5 min read
The Used-EV Inflection and What It Means for Charging
Record used-EV sales are changing the economics of public and workplace charging. Here is why that matters more than many new-EV headlines for real estate owners. ...more
EV Market Signals ,EV Charging in Real Places &EV-Blog
June 02, 2026•5 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (06/03/26 Edition)
This week's headlines that changed who pays, how quickly projects move, and where flexibility is gaining real value. ...more
EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup
June 02, 2026•13 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (05/27/26 Edition)
Read this week's developments in distributed energy worth the attention or planners and commercial real estate. ...more
EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup
May 27, 2026•9 min read
The Used EV Pivot: How the Q1 2026 Reset Should Change Commercial Charging Underwriting
Q1 2026 EV market trends: new EV sales down 28% while used EV sales rose 12%. What this pivot means for utilization, connector mix (NACS/CCS), Section 30C timing, and underwriting for multifamily, wor... ...more
EV Market Signals
May 27, 2026•9 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging and Intelligent Electrification Roundup (05/20/26 Edition)
This week: Section 30C EV-charger deadline, EIA shift to commercial demand, transformer prices +77%, BESS at $117/kWh, data-center BYOP, CRE energy bills +15–40%. ...more
EV Market Signals ,EV Charging in Real Places Data Center Demand and Innovation Solar, Storage and VPPs Local Governance and Federal Policy Grid Stress, Storms and Resilience Economics Policy and Market Rules &Electrification Economics at the Property Level
May 19, 2026•7 min read
EV, Charging and Intelligent Electrification Roundup (05/13/26): The Grid Is the New Zoning
Power access impacts, FERC June action, NEC 2026, 30C/179D sunsets, & truck corridors. ...more
EV Market Signals ,EV Charging in Real Places Data Center Demand and Innovation Solar, Storage and VPPs Local Governance and Federal Policy Grid Stress, Storms and Resilience Economics Policy and Market Rules &Electrification Economics at the Property Level
May 12, 2026•9 min read
Inland Empire Hub Tests the Multi-Fleet Charging Model at Industrial Scale
EV Realty's 9 MW San Bernardino hub puts shared truck charging on a major US freight corridor. ...more
EV Charging in Real Places
May 06, 2026•7 min read
Power Access Becomes the New Location Premium: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (05/06/26 Edition)
Latest on Microsoft's AI capacity gap, Duke Energy’s $103B plan, and Fermi America’s stock fall. ...more
EV Market Signals ,Energy & Solar Integration Charging Tech & Innovation &Electrification Roundup
May 05, 2026•12 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (04/29/26 Edition)
The pattern across this week's news is the same: power access, grid reliability, and project approval are increasingly determinative of where capital flows and what entitlements communities can defend... ...more
EV Market Signals ,EV Charging in Real Places Data Center Demand and Innovation Solar, Storage and VPPs Local Governance and Federal Policy Grid Stress, Storms and Resilience Economics Policy and Market Rules &Electrification Economics at the Property Level
April 29, 2026•24 min read
The Lease Return Wave: 300,000 Off-Lease EVs Hit the Used Market and Reset Multifamily Charging Underwriting
Used EV pricing has reached near-parity with used internal combustion vehicles. The 2026 lease return cohort is the largest in U.S. history. The financial logic for charging infrastructure at multifam... ...more
EV Market Signals
April 28, 2026•6 min read
New EV Sales Drop 27 Percent While Used EVs Reach Near Parity, and Charging Infrastructure Expands 34 Percent in Q1 2026
New EV sales fell 27 percent in Q1 2026 while used EV sales rose 12 percent to near price parity. 605 new high-speed stations opened, up 34 percent year over year. ...more
EV Market Signals
April 21, 2026•6 min read
Stories You May Have Missed This Week: EV, Charging & Intelligent Electrification Roundup (04/22/26 Edition)
Data center demand and shifting energy policies are driving grid costs to new highs. With the FERC large-load rule pending and state moratoriums rising, distributed energy is now the essential hedge f... ...more
EV Market Signals ,EV Charging in Real Places Data Center Demand and Innovation Solar, Storage and VPPs Local Governance and Federal Policy Grid Stress, Storms and Resilience Economics Policy and Market Rules &Electrification Economics at the Property Level
April 21, 2026•14 min read
