EV fast charging is transforming fuel retail. Longer charging sessions turn quick stops into mini visits, making winning sites feel like modern mobility centers with power, food, restrooms, and connectivity.
A new Paren analysis shows the U.S. added 18,000+ public DC fast-charging ports in 2025—a 30% jump. With 141M charging sessions expected, EV charging is now a real opportunity for commercial real estate.
LAZ Parking is making a very specific wager about where EV charging will win: not on the side of the highway, but where cars already sit for hours — garages, lots, hotels, airports and municipal decks. In mid-December, the company made a strategic investment in Epic Charging, a software provider, to accelerate a rollout of 50,000 Level 2 charging stations across LAZ’s portfolio in the U.S. and Canada. For commercial real estate owners and managers, the significance isn’t the number alone. It’s what the deal implies: parking operators — and the properties they manage — are starting to behave like energy operators.
Across the EV charging industry, everyone sells “uptime”, and it isn't just a product of software, spare parts, or service-level agreements. Rather, it reflects hiring decisions made before a single charger is even installed.
The EV charging industry is still young enough that sudden collapses make headlines, raising a question every landlord, developer, and CPO should ask today.
By this point in the fall of 2025, the EV charging map tells a story of steady growth. Here’s the challenge: the market is loud, and the winners will be the companies implementing the clearest, most consistent...