Ionity has just announced a new financing operation, with €450 million in green loans, in addition to an additional €150 million option. Its goal, after launching a plan to establish itself in city centers, will be to offer 13,000 charging points, compared to 5,000 today. This will aim to reach 1,300 stations across Europe by 2030.
It is not yet known where these stations will be located in the coming years, but Ionity has already mentioned its interest in catering to new models based on 800-volt architecture, which can charge at very high power levels. Thus, with orders for Alpitronic's HYC1000 charging station model, Ionity will offer charging points capable of reaching 600 kW "for recharges in less than 10 minutes."
Alpitronic's system has the advantage of offering steles that remain particularly thin despite the increased power level of the charging cables. This allows Ionity to continue to offer stations with a sufficient number of charging terminals. Ionity will be the first operator to benefit from this new equipment, which is expected to arrive in the second half of 2025. This May, the final tests are being carried out in Munich, Germany, where the joint venture has a test center.
Ionity nevertheless mentioned that the consortium would still focus on stations and charging points along highways in its 24 European countries where the joint venture is present. In a press release, it mentioned the number of 30 million electric cars on the roads of the Old Continent by 2030, the year in which the work on this 600 million euro contract signed this May is expected to be completed.
To date, the Ionity network already offers ultra-fast charging stations, which can, at a minimum, recharge up to a power of 350 kW, or 300 kilometers recovered between 10 and 15 minutes of stopping. But the Ionity service quickly lost appeal among electric car drivers, particularly due to its prices, and its competitors, such as TotalEnergies, Fastned, Electra, and Carrefour, are also making progress. Obviously, the opening of Tesla Superchargers to other electric car models hasn't helped.
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