NACS Appears on Hyundai and Lucid Vehicles

While we've been promised NACS (SAE Standard J3400) vehicles this year, outside of Tesla none have materialized. Well, that's about to change. 

Hyundai recently announced that the updated 2025 Ioniq 5 would ship with a NACS port and Supercharger support by the end of this year. The automaker's best-selling EV has garnered nearly universal praise from the automotive press and now it's on the forefront of the transition to NACS. 

In luxury EV news, Lucid announced that its upcoming Gravity electric SUV would ship with the NACS port. The vehicle is slated for production later this year and will land in showrooms sometime in 2025. 

Other automakers will also be adding the NACS ports to their vehicles in the near future. While not incredibly surprising, it is important for the adoption of the SAE J3400 standard. CCS will not disappear anytime soon, but the quicker we transition to the new standard, the quicker we'll see an increase in EV adoption. 

One of the largest roadblocks to EV adoption is charging anxiety. While the Tesla Supercharger network is not perfect, it is the bar by which all other charging networks should aim to mimic with impressive reliability and availability. 

It's not uncommon to find a Supercharging location with dozens of open slots near another charging network's location with only six chargers and a line of electric vehicles waiting to charge. 

Fortunately, nearly all of the charging networks have pledged to add NACS stations to their locations. To reduce confusion, ChargePoint has unveiled its Omni port stations that have both CCS and NACS on the same cable so regardless of your vehicle's charging port, you can feel confident that you'll be able to plug it in. 

The end result of all this is that an entire industry is moving to a single port that benefits not only those companies but also drivers.