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BrianBigNFun said:
still nice to see upcoming stations
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Also on PlugShare :)
Make sure your filter is set to "Include Coming Soon" or "Show Only Coming Soon" - also clear your kW range filter if you have one, the upcoming stations don't have details like that filled in.
 
I finally had a chance to try the one Ionna Rechargery in the San Diego area (Vista, CA) yesterday as I was up near it and am going to be doing a fair bit of driving the next few days. I was surprised when I searched for it in the Gravity's nav that not only was it listed but it triggered the battery pre-conditioning when navigating to it.

I was the only car there for most of the time (a Kia EV6 stopped for about 5 minutes, he plugged in and ran into the FedEx Office that's there and left as soon as he came back out).

I started at 26% SOC and charged to 95%. Highest session power delivery was "only" 326 kW but it held above 300 for a while. From 26% to 95% took around 37 minutes, 85.22 kWh total at $0.39/kWh ($33.24 in energy cost plus $2.74 tax, so $35.98 total).
 

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RandomDesign said:
I started at 26% SOC and charged to 95%. Highest session power delivery was "only" 326 kW but it held above 300 for a while. From 26% to 95% took around 37 minutes, 85.22 kWh total at $0.39/kWh ($33.24 in energy cost plus $2.74 tax, so $35.98 total).
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That's not shabby at all.

Honestly I've always had good experience with EA chargers. Even when road tripping, taking a half hour break every 350 miles isn't a bad thing to do. Tesla usually puts their small town chargers near other ammenties or museums or points of interest I wouldn't otherwise see. And the smoothness of having an EV on a roadtrip is well worth it.
 
socktucker said:
That's not shabby at all.

Honestly I've always had good experience with EA chargers. Even when road tripping, taking a half hour break every 350 miles isn't a bad thing to do. Tesla usually puts their small town chargers near other ammenties or museums or points of interest I wouldn't otherwise see. And the smoothness of having an EV on a roadtrip is well worth it.
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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.
 
I'll be giving it a go tomorrow in Gaithersburg MD - unfortunately its just a charger in a strip mall lot, would love to see one with the indoor facilities
 
so if I navigate to the ionna charger does the Gravity siftware recognize it as a charger and will automatically precondition the battery or do I have to do it myself and how far out if so?
 
I've been planning to use Ionna for the Gravity in my most common road trip route (Denver to Vegas). They added 2 stations that are almost perfectly spaced along the 785 mile route (Fruita CO and Beaver UT). I might be able to do the whole drive in just 2 DCFCs (just like a gas car). Although the 272 mile gap between the two might be a tad much unless I charge really high at the first one, so I might need to top up at an EA or SC in the middle.

Ionna prices are usually reasonable too.
 
Smorgasbord said:
Does Ionna really not have an App?
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Visit State of Charge YouTube channel. Tom M. has a really nice video on the iONNA campus including a Q&A with iONNA leadership team. They explain why they do not have an app. It's also a very good. Link --> iONNA discusses strategy It's a lonnnngg video, but taken in chunks it is very interesting.

Actually, I just found a shortened version where the question of why no app is addressed. Link --> Yo...where's my app?
 
plus there's plug and charge with certain makes (namely the automakers who jointly fund and own ionna- like Hyundai for example)
 
BrianBigNFun said:
so if I navigate to the ionna charger does the Gravity siftware recognize it as a charger and will automatically precondition the battery or do I have to do it myself and how far out if so?
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Mine did pre-condition when navigating to the Ionna charger but of course YMMV.
 
blagar1000 said:
I hadn't seen this thread yet but I emailed Ionna about this earlier this evening, hopefully encouraging more outreach to Lucid.

Big fan... however, I noticed at an Ionna station at a Wawa's in Ashland, Virginia, a few days ago that when a Rivian R1S parked next to me at the same charger and used the other port, I immediately dropped from 364 kW to 175 kW and was informed that the charging was limited by the station. Is that typical/have others experienced that?
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The Ionna equipment plate photo seems to show a rated capacity of 600kW (600A @ 1000V), so it's interesting that you dropped to 175kW with two vehicles charging. Naively, I'd expect it to do better. I wonder if that's partly a product of the R1S being a 400V architecture, and I'd be fascinated to know if better results are achieved when two Gravities try and charge at the same time.
 
RandomDesign said:
Mine did pre-condition when navigating to the Ionna charger but of course YMMV.
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30 minutes away it didn’t precondition so to be Safe I did it myself - it was a cold day
 
Today, I charged at a brand new Ionna Rechargery in Oakdale MN that is not yet in the native nav. -4 degrees outside and arrived at 3% SoC. I manuallly preconditioned for about 10 min before it automatically turned off as the SoC dropped below 5%. I plugged in and hit 400 kw in 26 seconds - see the bad quality pic. I got to 50% SoC in just over 12 minutes. Great charging session and happy to support Ionna and their cheaper no subscription rates with better dispensers, charging speeds, and amenities.
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I need to find the magic words to get Ionna to work for me. It works fine when I test it, when I don't actually need it, but on 2 separate road trips when I did need it, the car would never establish a connection, stating to try another charger/cable.

I'll try again, this time with my left hand behind my back. Maybe that's the secret move.
 
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