Blue Whale EV announced recently that it had become a reseller for SemaConnect, an electric vehicle charging system company owned by umbrella charging company Blink Charging Co.

That may sound out of the purview of commercial real estate. On one level it is. This is about technology for electric vehicles—cars, trucks, taxis, and a lot more. But it's important for CRE in two ways.

One is that it's impossible to separate CRE from transportation. Tenants often will need parking places, as will any sort of retail, office, or other facility that people travel to. Maybe mass transit will be a large factor, but it's unlikely to be the only one. Especially when logistics, industrial, and trucking are involved. Anyone investing in commercial real estate is almost always investing as well in parking.

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