Ionna rocks

[EVCar]

For Orange County folks near Seal Beach/Huntington Beach Ionna is also opening a location at I-405 and Westminster (behind the In-n-out). The signage is up but the location is not functional

I may be in this area next month. Which exit? Thanks.

 

[ke2]

I may be in this area next month. Which exit? Thanks.

Westminster exit on I-405. It is on the right side as you go north.

 

[PGT]

I’ve hit two so far; legit and way faster than the Tesla network

 

[Bus Driver]

If you do stop by, shoot me a message! We'll come have a coffee with ya!

You’re on! It’s been a minute.

 

[TakeDuo]

For those of you In Orange County, they are opening a new Ionna right off 5 on Alicia. Between Paseo de Alicia and Bentley. Sandwiched between the Starbucks and Taco Bell. A worker there this morning said it would be open in a few weeks. 8 stalls. I’m guessing this will get a lot of LA to SD thru traffic being conveniently situated off 5 and near a Starbucks.

It’s open (ish)! Mach-E there charging now.

 

[Aka-none]

My only real complaint about the current and planned Ionna chargers in SoCal is that most of them aren't near the major highways at all. The one in Vista is about a 15-20 minute drive east of the I5 (the main north/south highway from San Diego to L.A.) and about 25 minutes west of the I15 (the other major N/S highway) off of a smaller E/W road (SR78). The second one they're putting in here is, inexplicably, about 5 exits further east also on SR78 and then a third one is going to be just north of the first one but back in amongst surface streets.

Unless you live in that area none of them are convenient as the 78 is a smaller highway and kind of a pain because of traffic.

The ones coming to Orange County and Los Angeles all seem similar in placement off of smaller roads with the only exception I see being one on the 405 freeway in Orange County.

So great if you're local to it but not really ones I'd travel out of my way for as the extra time to get to it for the faster charging isn't worth it for most majorly travelled routes. You'll waste more time getting to them than you'll save in the faster charging times.

Or maybe you’ll navigate differenty and see more of the country? Just a thought.

 

[Aka-none]

Same with the north, really. Not a single station in ID, MT, WY, ND, SD, NE, IA, MI, NY, ME. I have to imagine this is because they've done their research on the highest ROI corridors, and these lower-ROI areas are coming later. Most of these states are underserved by other networks too, so I wish they were being targeted, but I imagine it just isn't economically viable yet.

Having recently come from that way (no chargers) it seems everyone has bought into ev bad, thought process.
One charger was at a GMC dealer and they apologized for having it. They were made to put them in. They had an rv hummer and a pu, my guess is neither will sell locally

 

[Aka-none]

I've had mostly good experiences with EA. The biggest issues that I can recall is that in really cold weather (single digit F) they charge REALLY slow. I'm talking 30 - 60 kW. But I've not tried other DCFC in the same conditions so I don't have a point of comparison. We'll see what this upcoming winter brings.

Do you precondition the battery each time?

 

[martinjlm]

Do you precondition the battery each time?

The times I'm referring to, where EA reduced output at chargers in single digit temperatures, I most definitely pre-conditioned.