Lucid mentioned the Gravity SUV will get a NACS cost port in 2025
Preliminary deliveries of the electrical Gravity SUV may have a CCS cost port
Lucid hasn’t mentioned when the Air sedan will get a NACS cost port
Lucid simply put a timeline to its transition to Tesla’s North American Charging System (NACS) cost port.
On Tuesday, through the automaker’s manufacturing and expertise day, Lucid posted on Twitter (now often known as X) that the upcoming Gravity electrical SUV will include Tesla’s NACS cost port beginning in 2025.
The announcement got here with two photos displaying that the NACS port will probably be mounted on the driving force’s aspect rear fender. The placement of the cost port is completely different than the pre-production Gravity models rolling off the meeting line in the present day, which characteristic a CCS cost port on the driving force’s aspect entrance fender.
The brand new cost port location is identical space on the car the place Tesla locations its cost ports, which permits autos to neatly again into parking spots at Tesla Superchargers.
Lucid Gravity with Tesla NACS cost port
Twitter customers had been fast to notice the brand new cost port door and housing is giant in comparison with what’s mandatory for the smaller NACS port, however the reasoning might be to simply permit house for a CCS2 port, which is the fast-charging commonplace in Europe
Lucid has mentioned deliveries of the Gravity SUV will start later this 12 months, which implies the primary automobiles off the road going to clients will nonetheless have a CCS cost port, probably on the entrance fender as initially proven and seen on prototypes.
Lucid hasn’t mentioned when the Air sedan will make the change to a NACS cost port, or whether or not the cost port location will transfer on the sedan. The automaker additionally did not present full photos of the Gravity with the NACS port. Lacking is the entrance half of the automotive, which is the place in the present day’s CCS cost port is positioned.
Lucid dedicated to undertake Tesla’s NACS cost port on Nov. 6, 2023. The announcement on Tuesday is the primary time the automaker’s given a timeline to the transfer.
In the course of the occasion Lucid tweeted a picture of its upcoming midsize electrical SUV that will probably be concerning the measurement of the Tesla Mannequin Y. The automaker mentioned the SUV will arrive late in 2026 and value lower than $50,000.