u/Moto909

The first Rechargery Relay at a Circle K has opened in Peotone, IL. One month after the press release announcing the imminent turnover of approximately 85 existing Circle K charging sites to Ionna. That's good news.

Interestingly, it's not on the Ionna website and has never been announced. The social media posts claimed they would announce five sites this week like they did the prior week. They have also not updated the website to include the St. Charles, IL site they announced last week.

Overall, the Ionna media team has been slacking in their announcements and website map. They aren't the only ones on the team slacking either. Ionna is way off the pace to hit their goal of 30,000 ports by the end of 2030. Right now they should be opening 12 stations with an average of 10 stalls every single week. That station number obviously keeps growing every week they don't hit it.

Video is from State of Charge.

Here is the IONNA press release.

TLDR = 85 existing Circle K sites taken over rapidly. Eventually 350 sites.

"The collaboration is centered around a strategic ambition to expand to more than 350 sites featuring Rechargeries @ Circle K, combining IONNA’s charging technology and driver-first experience with Circle K’s nationwide footprint. IONNA, which will assume operation of sites across Circle K’s existing U.S. charging portfolio, will rapidly convert and upgrade approximately 85 existing Circle K charging sites. Additionally, IONNA will accelerate new deployments at premium, high-traffic Circle K locations where no chargers currently exist. The first Rechargeries @ Circle K will begin serving customers by the end of 2026, followed by additional scale in 2027."