- Complimentary NACS adapter will allow Supercharger access to CCS EVs
- Details coming early in 2025; Genesis also participating
- 2025 Ioniq 5 has NACS port, needs opposite adapter from CCS connector for max rate
Hyundai on Monday provided more details about when it is going to start providing adapters good for charging its EVs at Tesla Superchargers—and which Hyundai EVs are eligible for a free adapter.
Drivers will find a way to request a complimentary adapter, shipping included, starting in the primary quarter of 2025, Hyundai said, with “details, instructions, and terms and conditions” all yet to be revealed.
Those that own or lease a Hyundai EV by January 31, 2025—and currently have the vehicle—will probably be eligible to receive the NACS adapter.
2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6
Especially of note is that Hyundai isn’t picking and selecting on eligibility; it’s essentially offering drivers of all of its U.S.-market EVs the adapter. Here’s the eligibility list:
Hyundai Kona Electric (model yr 2018-2025)
Hyundai Ioniq Electric (MY 2017-2022)
Hyundai Ioniq 5 (MY 2022-2024)
Hyundai Ioniq 5 N (MY 2025)
Hyundai Ioniq 6 (MY 2023-2025)
Hyundai’s Genesis luxury brand can be included in this system, it said, with details set to be revealed in early 2025.
It’s shaping as much as be quite different than Hyundai’s Kia corporate cousin, which is just offering a NACS-to-CCS adapter just for EV6 and EV9 models delivered after September 4, 2024—simply to the EV6 from the 2024 model yr or the EV9 from the 2024 or 2025 model years. It’s skipping Niro EV buyers entirely on this and it’s not yet clear of the retail price of them to earlier buyers of models including the EV6.
2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5
The fast-charge adapter dance: NACS-to-CCS, CCS-to-NACS
Kia, Hyundai, and Genesis also face an adapter issue in the opposite direction. A lot of the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 lineup gets a native NACS port, and it’s the primary mass-market, non-Tesla vehicle to achieve this. The one exception in that lineup is the Ioniq 5 N, which stays inbuilt South Korea for at the very least this model yr. And Hyundai has already confirmed that when it’s introduced later this yr, the 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 may also have a NACS port, not CCS.
The 2025 Kia EV6, which is built on the identical 800-volt E-GMP underpinnings, may also get a much bigger battery pack for more range, plus a native NACS port and U.S. assembly. And the Alabama-made 2026 Genesis Electrified GV70 also gets a spread boost and NACS port.
2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9
As Hyundai has made clear, though, the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 9 will charge slower with NACS on the Tesla Supercharger network than with their CCS adapter, which is required to tap into the Ioniq 5’s maximum rate and 20-minute 10-80% fast-charging stops. That’s not due to vehicles but due to Supercharger network, which is finally attributable to get upgraded V4 Cabinets in 2025 that may allow full-rate charging of 800-volt EVs just like the Cybertruck and these from Hyundai.
So for a time all of us could also be juggling loads of adapters—all for the sake of consolidating on one, eventually.
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