IONNA, the EV charging network created by a coalition of large automakers, will install fast chargers at over 350 sites across America in partnership with convenience store chain Circle K.
IONNA was founded in 2024 as a partnership between several large automakers to advance fast-charging in North America. At first, it was BMW, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, and Stellantis, though later Toyota joined the fray.
The partnership intends to install fast charging at locations they call “rechargeries” across America, focusing on extra-fast 400kW chargers, to feed today’s quickest-charging vehicles and future-proof charging for faster-charging vehicles to come in the future.
IONNA has already opened several charging sites across the country (about 100 so far, as of last month), though there are still large gaps in coverage – the network is relatively new, after all.
But in the mission to fill in those gaps, IONNA has been partnering with convenience store chains across America to pick out locations for future fast chargers. It has already partnered with Casey’s in the midwest and Wawa in the East.
But now it’s announcing an even bigger partnership, with Circle K, a convenience store with over 7,000 locations across the country – much larger in scale than either of its previous partners, and with larger geographical coverage too.
“More than 350” of those locations will get a Rechargery, including 85 locations that already have fast-charging but will be upgraded and operated by IONNA. Circle K sites are typically 4 180kW CCS plugs, though some sub out one of those for a 100kW CHAdeMO plug – IONNA would upgrade those to 400kW chargers with NACS and CCS plugs.
IONNA says the first locations will open by the end of this year, but that the network will really start to scale in 2027. It plans to open 30,000 charging bays by 2030, a number which we’d be skeptical of if it didn’t have backing from some of the largest companies on earth.
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