Free NACS adapters soon enabling 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 January 31, 2025—and currently have the vehicle—will be eligible to receive the NACS adapter. 

Especially of note is 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 September 4, 2024—just to the EV6 from the 2024 model year or the EV9 from the 2024 or 2025 model years. It’s skipping Niro EV buyers entirely in this and it’s not yet clear of the retail price of them to earlier buyers of models including the EV6. 

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

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 remains built in South Korea for at least this model year. And Hyundai has 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 on the same 800-volt E-GMP underpinnings, will also get a 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 range boost and NACS port. 

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 rate and 20-minute 10-80% fast-charging stops. That’s not because of the vehicles but because of the Supercharger network, which is finally due to get upgraded V4 Cabinets in 2025 that will allow full-rate charging of 800-volt EVs like the Cybertruck and these from Hyundai. 

So for a time we all may be juggling a lot of adapters—all for the sake of consolidating on one, eventually.