Lucid also switches to NACS for North American models
For Lucid electric vehicles with a CCS connection, the Supercharger network in North America will be accessible via an adapter from 2025. Lucid also wants to integrate the Tesla charging port into its new electric cars from then. The carmaker says it wants to increase convenience for its North American customers.
Lucid is thus joining the long list of American and international car manufacturers who will be using the NACS in their models for the USA and Canada from 2024/2025. Almost all US manufacturers have a historically complicated relationship with Tesla – large corporations such as Ford and GM, in particular, have long ridiculed the EV maker. The situation is different with Lucid: the company was born out of a vision to build a better electric car than Tesla. Peter Rawlinson, CEO and CTO of Lucid Motors, helped develop the Tesla Model S.
Adopting NACS is an important next step to providing our customers with expanded access to reliable and convenient charging solutions for their Lucid vehicles,” says Rawlinson. “We believe that a unified charging standard, backed by the nationwide rollout of future-ready higher-voltage charging stations, will be a critical step in empowering American consumers to adopt electric vehicles.”
Tesla released the design of its proprietary Supercharger charging plug in the US in November 2022 and renamed it the “North American Charging Standard” or NACS – although it is not yet a certified standard. The NACS bandwagon only got rolling this year after two US car giants, Ford and GM, announced that they would be switching to Tesla’s charging port.
This was followed by a number of other manufacturers (including Volvo, Polestar, Nissan, Honda and Jaguar), two German carmakers, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, and most recently, in October, a number of manufacturers from Asia: the Hyundai Motor Group with its Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands will be using NACS in future, while industry giant Toyota and the small Japanese carmaker Subaru have also decided to switch to NACS.
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