Free NACS adapters will soon enable Supercharger access for Hyundai EVs
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 information about when it will start providing adapters good for charging its EVs at Tesla Superchargers—and which Hyundai EVs are eligible for a free adapter.
Drivers will be able to request a complimentary adapter, shipping included, starting in the first quarter of 2025, Hyundai said, with “details, instructions, and terms and conditions” all yet to be revealed.
Those who own or lease a Hyundai EV by Jan. 31, 2025—and currently have the vehicle—will be eligible to receive the NACS adapter.
2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6
It's noteworthy that Hyundai isn’t picking and choosing 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 year 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 is also included in the program, it said, with details set to be revealed in early 2025.
It’s shaping up to be quite different than Hyundai’s Kia corporate cousin, which is only offering a NACS-to-CCS adapter only for EV6 and EV9 models delivered after Sept. 4, 2024, and only to the 2024 model year EV6 and the 2024 and 2025 EV9. It’s skipping Niro EV buyers entirely, and the adapter's retail price for buyers of early models, including the EV6, is not yet clear.
2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5
Kia, Hyundai, and Genesis also face an adapter issue in the other direction. Most of the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 lineup gets a native NACS port, and it’s the first mass-market, non-Tesla vehicle to do so. The only exception in that lineup is the Ioniq 5 N, which is still built in South Korea for at least this model year. Hyundai already confirmed that when it’s introduced later this year, the 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 will also have a NACS port, not CCS.
The 2025 Kia EV6, which is built in the U.S. on the same 800-volt E-GMP underpinnings, will also get a bigger battery pack for more range, plus a native NACS port. The Alabama-made 2026 Genesis Electrified GV70 also gets a range boost and a 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 needed to tap into the Ioniq 5's maximum charging rate and 20-minute 10-80% fast-charging stops. That’s no fault of the vehicles but is instead due to the limits of the Supercharger network, which is finally due to get upgraded V4 Cabinets in 2025 that will allow full-rate charging for 800-volt EVs like the Cybertruck and these from Hyundai.
For a time, EV owners may have to juggle adapters for the sake of consolidating on one, eventually.
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