A start-up called Ionna, based in North Carolina, hopes to shake things up by rapidly rolling out what’s set to become a nationwide network of 30,000 charger bays.
A critical goal is to keep its chargers running at all times, no easy task considering the industry up-time averages barely 70%. Ionna aims to deliver the dependability owners of gas vehicles expect at the pump.
“Our uptime is 99.5%” at the first 97 sites that went live,” Ionna CEO Seth Cutler reported. Just as importantly, added Cutler, when there is an issue, the company has set up methods to make sure it’s immediately identified, with technicians quickly dispatched to get the problem resolved.