Hyundai will offer its EV customers free NACS adapters starting next year

Hyundai is an offer Select EV buyers with a free CCS to NACS (North American Charging Standard) adapter so they can charge existing models at Tesla’s Supercharger stations. This will allow owners to charge Hyundai models with a CCS port in Tesla’s 20,000-strong Supercharger network, once charging begins in the first quarter of 2025.

Hyundai is offering the free adapter to owners of 2024 and earlier Kona Electric, Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6 and Ioniq hatchback models, as well as 2025 Ioniq 6, Ioniq 5N and Kona Electric Genesis EVs. You will be able to get the free converter through MyHyundai owner website. The adapters will be offered to anyone who purchased a Hyundai EV before January 31, 2025. Sister brand Kia is also offering free NACS adapters to select customers starting next year, with a full list of supported models arriving soon.

The automaker joins Ford In providing excellence to its users, other manufacturers are likely to do the same in the near future. This is because recently the US government Announce NACS is becoming an open industry standard and will likely be widely used in shipping networks across the continent.

Future models won’t need the adapter, as Hyundai has joined a host of automakers in changing their charging ports to NACS. That will start with the 2025 Ioniq 5, which will have access to Tesla Superchargers once it charges, according to Tesla. Older CCS-based models don’t currently have access, but Tesla will likely enable this once the Switch ships.

The news is important because Hyundai It became recently The second largest seller of electric vehicles in North America after Tesla. The company currently sells four models: the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 5N crossovers, the Ioniq 6 sedan and the Kona Electric SUV. Meanwhile, Kia offers the EV6 crossover, EV9 SUV, and Niro EV.