Nissan Ariya Owners Will Get Tesla Supercharger Access Later This Year

Nissan partnered with a number of charging operators within the U.S. to present Ariya homeowners entry to over 90,000 quick chargers.
Later this yr, Nissan EVs will even get entry to the Tesla Supercharger community within the U.S. and Canada.

Nissan Ariya homeowners in america and Canada will acquire entry to the Tesla Supercharger community later this yr, with the corporate providing a North American Charging Normal (NACS) adapter. It’s unclear if the adapter will probably be free or paid.

Subsequent yr, Nissan stated it would provide electrical automobiles in america and Canada with a NACS charging port from the manufacturing facility, following within the footsteps of Ford, Normal Motors, Rivian, Hyundai, Kia and others.

Till that occurs, nevertheless, the Japanese automaker partnered with a number of charging operators in america to present Ariya homeowners entry to greater than 90,000 quick chargers throughout the nation by way of a brand new digital charging community referred to as the Nissan Power Cost Community.

Drivers can use the MyNissan app to search out chargers, see real-time charger availability and pay for charging, so long as a cost methodology is about up within the app. The practically 100,000 DC quick chargers are operated by Electrify America, Shell Recharge, ChargePoint and EVgo, with extra networks to be integrated sooner or later, together with the Tesla Supercharger community.

The Nissan Leaf, the unique mass-market EV, can’t be part of the social gathering. That’s as a result of it makes use of a CHAdeMO charging connector for quick charging, which has largely been deserted all over the place on this planet besides Japan. Nissan stated Leaf homeowners can discover charging stations by way of the NissanConnectEV and Providers app.

The Ariya electrical crossover and nearly all the opposite non-Tesla EVs bought within the U.S. include a Mixed Charging System Combo 1 (CCS1) port from the manufacturing facility. Teslas have a NACS port and the Tesla Supercharger community has NACS cables, which is why a charging adapter is required to top-up something that isn’t a Tesla.

Nissan plans on releasing no fewer than 16 new electrified fashions globally by the tip of the fiscal yr 2026.