Volvo and Polestar — 2 Swedish car brands owned by China’s Geely — are now offering their electrical conveyance customers entree to Tesla’s Supercharger network. The companies are taking orders for adapters that will let its EV customers to complaint astatine complete 17,800 Supercharger stalls crossed the country.
Tesla’s superior charging acquisition and the ubiquity of its Superchargers has spurred the full car manufacture to denote support for the company’s North American Charging Standard (NACS). All non-Tesla EVs will require adapters astatine first, but automakers person said they intend to commencement producing vehicles pinch autochthonal NACS ports installed astatine the mill starting arsenic soon arsenic 2025.
All non-Tesla EVs will require adapters astatine first
Ford, GM, Nissan, and Rivian person each started rolling retired Supercharger entree to their customers. And now it’s Volvo and Polestar’s turn. Both Ford and Rivian gave retired free adapters for a constricted clip earlier making customers bargain them, while GM declined to connection immoderate complimentary period.
Volvo is doing things somewhat different. The Swedish automaker says the NACS adapter will beryllium included free-of-charge to anyone who buys a 2025 EX90, EX40, aliases EC40. But existing Volvo EV owners will person to bid an adapter from immoderate Volvo dealership aliases work halfway for $230.
Polestar says it will beryllium trading adapters done its Service Points, but made nary mention of including them successful the acquisition of a caller Polestar 2 aliases 3. Volvo said that orders will commencement shipping connected November 18th, and Polestar conscionable said “mid-November.”
Both companies are updating their Android-powered infotainment package truthful Tesla Supercharger stations show up successful their vehicle’s navigation. The update will besides see real-time readiness of each station, arsenic good arsenic a seamless measurement to salary for each charging session.
The adapter rollout hasn’t been precisely problem-free. Ford had to show immoderate of its customers to extremity utilizing their adapters amid reports of reduced charging speeds complete time. Supply constraints person besides delayed immoderate customers from receiving their adapters.
Tesla has said it is ramping up production of adapters retired of its Buffalo, NY gigafactory. And immoderate third-party suppliers of NACS adapters are besides attempting to reside lingering design flaws and different information issues truthful they tin besides jump successful the fray and thief meet demand.