Late last year, seven automakers — BMW, Honda, General Motors, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, and Stellantis — announced plans for a joint venture to build easy-to-access public DC fast charging infrastructure in the US and Canada.
. Chief product officer Ricardo Stamatti hails from the OEM side of the industry and is a founding member of Ionna. Prior to joining the company, he spent 10 years working through the layers of business units at Stellantis and spent a year as SVP and global head of Stellantis Energy. Other members of the C-suite include former BP CFO Derek Rush and Shankar Muthukumar, who comes from Mortenson, a builder, developer and provider of energy and engineering services.
funds are administered by the states, and critics point to that as one of the many factors delaying the rollout. Plans for Ionna to leverage has come under political fire recently' The billions of federal dollars available through the