Charged EVs | Toyota joins US public EV charging network IONNA

As common Charged readers know, Toyota’s electrification technique blows cold and warm—in Q2 2024, its EV share of total US brand sales was abysmal—under 2%, decrease than some other main automaker save fellow laggard Honda/Acura. Nevertheless, even because it continues to lobby against emissions standards and unfold misinformation about EVs, the large automaker is researching new battery and charging tech.

The newest welcome information is that Toyota has (a bit belatedly) joined seven different automakers as an investor in public charging community IONNA. Toyota and Lexus clients will now have entry to the general public community of DC quick chargers IONNA that plans to start deploying later this 12 months. IONNA hopes to put in a minimum of 30,000 charging ports in North America by 2030, and its stations will embody each NACS and CCS connectors.

“We’re excited to announce our assist of IONNA to deploy DC quick chargers all through the U.S. and Canada,” mentioned Ted Ogawa, President and CEO of Toyota Motor North America. “We imagine this is not going to solely promote the adoption of BEVs and enhance buyer confidence within the know-how, however it is going to present our Toyota and Lexus clients with entry to IONNA’s quickly rising charging community in North America.”

Toyota at present provides two BEV fashions within the US and Canada—the Toyota bZ4X and the Lexus RZ. It not too long ago introduced plans to provide two new electrical three-row SUVs in Kentucky and Indiana. By 2030, the corporate aspires to supply 30 BEV fashions globally (learn: principally in Europe and Asia).

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