Herbert Diess criticizes the IONITY charging network

About the infrastructure for charging & # 39; much work still needs to be done. All manufacturers agree on this point. If you really want to adequately support the diffusion of electric cars & egrave; need to make more capillary energy supply infrastructure. More capillary but also much more; reliable and with services that allow people to pass the time while the car finishes filling up on energy. The CEO of the Volkswagen Group, Herbert Diess , wanted to reiterate the concept of the importance of a quality charging network, criticizing the experience he had with IONITY on a trip to Italy.

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This is an even more criticism; significant if you remember that Volkswagen & egrave; one of the founders of the IONITY joint venture. DIESS explained that he did not find a free column inside the station which is located at Brenner . At that point, it & egrave; directed to the next one in Trento. Here, one of the 4 available columns was not working and there were no services (no bathroom or coffee). In short, for the CEO of the Volkswagen Group, a charging experience far from being Premium .


DIESS praised the ID.3 Pro S with which he traveled, which if driven sparingly would be able to cover the section between Lake Constance and Lake Garda without intermediate stops. Shortly after the criticism of DIESS & egrave; arrived the reply of Marcus Groll , COO of IONITY, who ensured that the Brenner station will be & agrave; enlarged and that the column fails in Trento & egrave; been repaired.

It is not; however, the first time that IONITY has been criticized by the partners of the joint venture due to high charging prices and delays in the station development plan. The Premium experience that DIESS mentions could perhaps in the future be offered precisely by the Volkswagen Group which already has; announced several very interesting projects. We recall, in particular, the one with Enel X which envisages 3,000 HPC recharging points in Italy in approximately 700 locations; by 2025.

In any case, it seems that next month IONITY will present & agrave; the new expansion plan . It will be certainly the opportunity to respond concretely to criticism. All that remains is to wait to find out more.

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