Ionity

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Ionity GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding October 31, 2017
Seat Munich , Germany
management Michael Hajesch (CEO), Marcus Groll (COO)
Branch Automotive industry
infrastructure
Website ionity.eu/de

Ionity is a company that operates a network of charging stations for electric cars along European motorways. Several automobile manufacturers founded Ionity in 2017 with the aim of making electric mobility suitable for long distances . According to the company's plans, the network that is currently being set up will be expanded to 400 locations by the end of 2020, at which several vehicles can be charged at the same time with up to 350 kW charging power at charging stations for so-called high-power charging (HPC)  .

history

At the end of 2016 it became known that the largest German automobile manufacturers were planning to set up a European charging network for electric cars together with Ford. The network should include 400 stations in 18 countries and be completed by the end of 2020. The average distance of the charging stations along these routes should not be more than 120 km. In April 2017, the EU Commission approved the establishment of a joint venture . The BMW Group , Daimler AG , Ford Motor Company and the Volkswagen Group with the Audi and Porsche brands participated in the establishment . The Hyundai Motor Group joined in September 2019 .

The company name was announced in November 2017. The name is a suitcase word from Unity (unity) and Ion (electrically charged atom). This name was previously used by the Kamenz-based lithium polymer battery company Ionity AG, which went bankrupt in 2004 and was continued in various successor companies.

Under the name EUROP-E , the stations that are set up along the TEN-T corridors are funded by the European Union with 20 percent of the costs of a maximum of 195 million euros . The first charging station with six 350 kW charging stations was set up in December 2017 in Aabenraa , Denmark . The first charging station in Germany, at the Brohltal Ost location on the A61 motorway , was opened for public use on April 17, 2018.

Tariff

In the test operation with the first charging stations, charging was initially free until September 2018 and was then offered in the euro zone for a period of time at a flat rate of 8 euros. Since February 2020, there has been a consumption-dependent price model with several tariffs.

Ionity charging station on the A9 motorway; September 2019

Locations

By the end of 2020, 400 locations in Europe, each with several parallel charging stations, are to be put into operation. With 45 openings in seven countries by the end of 2018, the realization was way behind the plan of 80 locations. At the end of May 2019, the 100th location was opened in Rygge (Norway). At the end of 2019, 202 locations were in operation in 17 countries.

The locations of the charging stations are at partner companies, for example Q8 , Shell , MRH , OMV , Tank & Rast or Circle K , with whom cooperation agreements have been concluded. There are two to ten charging points at each location , with future expansions already being planned at some locations.

Charging stations

Ionity charging stations always have charging plugs according to the Combined Charging System (CCS type 2) defined as the standard by the European Union . Type 2 and CHAdeMO charging connections, which are also offered in some cases, are limited to 43 kW and 50 kW, respectively.

Three different manufacturers supply the charging stations for Ionity:

  • ABB (type: Terra HP),
  • Porsche Engineering,
  • Tritium (Veefil-PK).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ High Power Charging: How fast will be fast in the future? In: National Platform for Electric Mobility. Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften eV , accessed on November 1, 2019 : "High Power Charging is fast charging with high charging capacities of up to 400 kW in perspective."
  2. ↑ German car manufacturers plan fast charging network for e-cars , accessed on December 30, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Funding within the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) . Description (English) at INEA : EUROP-E: European Ultra-Charge Roll Out Project - Electric . Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ EU allows four car manufacturers to cooperate with rapid charging networks. Accessed December 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ IONITY welcomes Hyundai Motor Group as a further shareholder. ionity.eu, September 9, 2019
  6. ↑ Hyundai joins Ionity at electrive.net, September 9, 2019. Accessed September 11, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b Max Hägler and Stefan Mayr: What drivers need to know about the new fast charging network Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 3, 2017. Accessed April 24, 2019.
  8. ↑ Hans Schürmann: Saxon company attacks Japanese on the battery market . Handelsblatt, August 12, 2002.
  9. ↑ IONITY's first HPC charging park is being built in Denmark . Accessed December 30, 2017.
  10. ↑ IONITY puts first German HPC location into operation . Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  11. ↑ IONITY is now calling eight euros per charge on electrive.net on September 3, 2018. Accessed October 5, 2018.
  12. ↑ Franz W. Rother: “It was time to take the next price step.” Conversation with Ionity boss Michael Hajesch. In: Edison . Handelsblatt Media Group , January 16, 2020, accessed on January 19, 2020 : "In 2019 we already recorded more than 200,000 charging processes in our European HPC network."
  13. ^ A b Sebastian Schaal: Ionity boss Hajesch: "Fast charging in the city is an interesting scenario". In: Edison . Handelsblatt Media Group , October 19, 2018, accessed on October 20, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Gerhard Mauerer: Ionity puts 100th fast-charging park into operation. In: Automobilwoche.de. May 28, 2019, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  15. ↑ a b IONITY HPC Statistics. Retrieved January 4, 2020
  16. ↑ for example at the Hohenems motorway service station