Hyundai is the most recent main automaker to announce a swap to Tesla’s North American Charging Customary (NACS) on its automobiles beginning in late 2024, giving homeowners entry to Tesla’s large charger community.
Hyundai introduced this morning that its new or refreshed electrical automobiles in america will come solely with a NACS charging port starting within the fourth quarter of 2024; Canada will observe within the first half of 2025. This implies Hyundai EVs with NACS connectors will achieve entry to greater than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers throughout america, Canada, and Mexico. The transfer will successfully double the scale of the DC quick charging community that is at present out there to Hyundai EV prospects.
“Our collaboration with Tesla marks one other milestone in our dedication to delivering distinctive EV experiences to our prospects,” mentioned José Muñoz, the president and CEO of Hyundai Motor North America. “This new alliance will present Hyundai EV homeowners confidence of their skill to conveniently cost their automobiles and enhances our three way partnership firm to create a brand new, high-powered charging community with a minimum of 30,000 stations throughout North America.”
Hyundai Ioniq 6 at Tesla Supercharging station in San Clemente, California
Hyundai says Tesla’s Supercharging community will absolutely assist the ultra-fast charging speeds on its Electrical-International Modular Platform (E-GMP) automobiles, together with the Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6, and the upcoming Ioniq 7.
As for homeowners of current and future Hyundai EVs with the present CCS port, they’ll get entry to the Tesla Supercharging Community beginning in Q1 2025, when Hyundai will supply an adapter to those prospects. The Korean automaker mentioned it might additionally make adapters out there to cost NACS-equipped automobiles at CCS chargers.
“Opening our Supercharging community to extra electrical automobiles immediately helps our mission to speed up the world’s transition to sustainable vitality,” mentioned Rebecca Tinucci, senior director of Charging at Tesla. “We’re proud to welcome Hyundai as the most recent adopter of the North American Charging Customary.”
Along with the take care of Tesla, Hyundai is partnering with six of the world’s main international carmakers to develop a brand new, high-powered charging community in North America with a minimum of 30,000 chargers. The primary US stations on this new community are anticipated to open in the summertime of 2024, with Canada to observe at a later stage.
Increasingly automakers, fed up with the lackluster charging expertise provided by many third-party firms being a identified barrier to EV adoption, are merely partnering with Tesla as a substitute. Tesla’s Supercharger community is thought to be the biggest and arguably greatest charging ecosystem, and now Hyundai—which has very bold EV plans—is about to offer its prospects much more charging comfort. It additionally means they’ll have the ability to use a a lot slimmer, lighter plug than the cumbersome CCS. Moreover, SAE Worldwide is within the technique of turning Tesla’s NACS connector design into a real customary, making NACS look an increasing number of like the way forward for EV charging in North America now.
Hyundai is the most recent carmaker to undertake Tesla’s NACS charging port, following within the footsteps of Ford, Basic Motors, Rivian, Volvo Automobiles, Polestar, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Infiniti, Jaguar, Honda, Acura, Fisker, and Aptera. An identical announcement from Hyundai Motor Group subsidiaries Kia and Genesis are prone to occur quickly.
Hyundai Ioniq 5 at Tesla Supercharging station in San Clemente, California