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PGT said:
We have a few 325kW superchargers nearby but I never see anything close to that; I think Tesla throttles them back for whatever reason. The nearest Ionna is about 40min away but can be on the way to a friend’s farm; I’m going to check it out one day when headed near
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Gravity will only do 220 kw on those Tesla. sc unless it’s a true V4. There are only a few of those around.
 
PGT said:
We have a few 325kW superchargers nearby but I never see anything close to that; I think Tesla throttles them back for whatever reason. The nearest Ionna is about 40min away but can be on the way to a friend’s farm; I’m going to check it out one day when headed near
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They're not limiting, the older (pre-V4) Superchargers are 325kW but at 500V (and 400V for the 250kW dispensers I believe). The Gravity uses it's internal voltage boosting to get more out of them but even with that it caps out at 225kW (real world 220kW usually). Once there are more true V4 Superchargers they'll be able to provide the full voltage and charge as fast as the newer Alpitronic chargers that Ionna uses (and Rove too I believe but I haven't been to one yet).
 
Pragmatic said:
And Mecedes charging which (I've read) are all Alpitronic either 400kw or 600kw.
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Electrify America is using them now too, I used one at a Walmart parking lot recently.
 
Pragmatic said:
I believe Walmart (non EA) is also using them.
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I read or saw somewhere (State of Charge?) that Walmart is buying their chargers from two manufacturers, one of them being Alpitronic. The other is ABB.
 
HC_79 said:
4 to 6 chargers simply isn't enough for road tripping EV's, especially on long weekends etc. but building a 40 station locations on an interstate that only gets busy on weekends or holidays probably isn't sustainable at the moment.
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Depends on where. Probably not enough in most of CA. Although we've never had a problem getting on EA chargers in Bishop and Bridgeport. That's like a whole different state over there on that side of the mountains. It's more like NV. (That's the only reason we dip into CA for our Vegas-to-Reno drives, because US-95 has insufficient coverage.) For our frequent I-70/I-80/I-15 drives across CO/UT/NV/WY, 4-6 chargers is usually enough at an EA station. More is always nicer for us, of course, but they'd need the usage to justify the high cost for more and so far it's usually not there in the less populated parts of the country (although granted, we drive all days of the week, not mostly weekends).

The heavily populated areas definitely need more than 4-6 per station. Although jumping all the way to 40 seems excessive to me too.
 
erigion said:
With 8 more planned, mostly around Phoenix
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Is there a good source for future locations? The map on their website only seems to show current locations and (presumably) soon-to-open stations.
 
dbsb3233 said:
Is there a good source for future locations? The map on their website only seems to show current locations and (presumably) soon-to-open stations.
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Plugshare. Filter for ionna and have it show coming stations.

People have been good at locating applications for permits for future locations far sooner than ionna announces them. But those locations may sit undeveloped for months and months while permits wait to be approved.
 
IONNA is offering 0.20 per kWh charging across their network until Monday.
 

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I'm a big fan of Ionna. Easily max'd my AT on several occasions. If I could pick a single network for Lucid to turn up plug-n-charge with it'd be Ionna.
 
I officially have 6 IONNA stops planned for our next trip to Phoenix from Chicago as follows:

Stop #1, Pontiac, IL (at Wally's-- lol)
Stop #2, Springfield, IL (hopefully not in 'da hood'
Stop #3, Fenton, MO (Wally's again-- haha)

...then skipping all the way to

Stop #8, OKC, OK (Casey's)

Then over to New Mexico for

Stop #12 Tucumcari, NM

finally,

Stop #14 in Gallup, NM


^ after reading so much positivity about them, I feel like these will be our favorite fast chargers!

So far the fastest I've ever witnessed (briefly) at Electrify America was 266kWh so I hope to break that EA record on this upcoming trip!
 
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Adnillien said:
There is one in Wilcox but that is a bit far to drive. There is one coming soon to Tempe and to Flagstaff. They should be here by the end of the year.
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Flagstaff certainly needs something better than that pathetic and poorly located EA station so that will be very welcomed! If Tempe is operational by December, I can use it as well when visiting! (although I'll likely charge in the garage there mostly)
 
Let us know how it goes. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
 
Macgreiner said:
Let us know how it goes. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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Ionna is quickly becoming the first choice for many. To the point where it's already starting to get pretty busy. We used Fruita CO and Beaver UT last week. All the CCS chargers in Beaver were full. Fortunately we have an advantage in the Gravity with the NACS port. Teslas still almost exclusively charge at SCs, and most non-Teslas are CCS, so the Ionna NACS stalls are the 2nd choice for most. Best of both worlds for us right now.

Plug&Charge would make it even better but the credit card tap on the Ionna chargers works well (simple like a gas pump).
 
dbsb3233 said:
Ionna is quickly becoming the first choice for many. To the point where it's already starting to get pretty busy. We used Fruita CO and Beaver UT last week. All the CCS chargers in Beaver were full. Fortunately we have an advantage in the Gravity with the NACS port. Teslas still almost exclusively charge at SCs, and most non-Teslas are CCS, so the Ionna NACS stalls are the 2nd choice for most. Best of both worlds for us right now.

Plug&Charge would make it even better but the credit card tap on the Ionna chargers works well (simple like a gas pump).
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Now I'm looking forward to trying them out on my next trip.. this might become a game changer for our Chicago/Phoenix trip!
 
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