Free NACS adapters quickly enabling Supercharger entry for Hyundai EVs

• Complimentary NACS adapter will permit Supercharger entry to CCS EVs
• Particulars coming early in 2025; Genesis additionally collaborating
• 2025 Ioniq 5 has NACS port, wants reverse adapter from CCS connector for max price

Hyundai on Monday offered extra details about when it would begin offering adapters good for charging its EVs at Tesla Superchargers—and which Hyundai EVs are eligible for a free adapter. 

Drivers will be capable of request a complimentary adapter, transport included, beginning within the first quarter of 2025, Hyundai mentioned, with “particulars, directions, and phrases and situations” all but to be revealed. 

Those that personal or lease a Hyundai EV by January 31, 2025—and at the moment have the car—can be eligible to obtain the NACS adapter. 

Particularly of notice is that Hyundai isn’t selecting and selecting on eligibility; it’s basically providing drivers of all of its U.S.-market EVs the adapter. Right here’s the eligibility record:

Hyundai Kona Electrical (mannequin 12 months 2018-2025)
Hyundai Ioniq Electrical (MY 2017-2022)
Hyundai Ioniq 5 (MY 2022-2024)
Hyundai Ioniq 5 N (MY 2025)
Hyundai Ioniq 6 (MY 2023-2025)

Hyundai’s Genesis luxurious model can also be included in this system, it mentioned, with particulars set to be revealed in early 2025. 

It’s shaping as much as be fairly completely different than Hyundai’s Kia company cousin, which is barely providing a NACS-to-CCS adapter just for EV6 and EV9 fashions delivered after September 4, 2024—simply to the EV6 from the 2024 mannequin 12 months or the EV9 from the 2024 or 2025 mannequin years. It’s skipping Niro EV consumers totally on this and it’s not but away from the retail worth of them to earlier consumers of fashions together with the EV6. 

2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5

The fast-charge adapter dance: NACS-to-CCS, CCS-to-NACS

Kia, Hyundai, and Genesis additionally face an adapter challenge within the different route. Many of the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 lineup will get a local NACS port, and it’s the primary mass-market, non-Tesla car to take action. The one exception in that lineup is the Ioniq 5 N, which stays in-built South Korea for at the least this mannequin 12 months. And Hyundai has already confirmed that when it’s launched later this 12 months, the 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 can even have a NACS port, not CCS. 

The 2025 Kia EV6, which is constructed on the identical 800-volt E-GMP underpinnings, can even get a much bigger battery pack for extra vary, plus a local NACS port and U.S. meeting. And the Alabama-made 2026 Genesis Electrified GV70 additionally will get a spread increase and NACS port. 

2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9

As Hyundai has made clear, although, the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 9 will cost slower with NACS on the Tesla Supercharger community than with their CCS adapter, which is required to faucet into the Ioniq 5’s most price and 20-minute 10-80% fast-charging stops. That’s not due to the automobiles however due to the Supercharger community, which is lastly as a result of get upgraded V4 Cupboards in 2025 that may permit 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 plenty of adapters—all for the sake of consolidating on one, ultimately.