Lucid Motors introduced that its Air house owners will acquire full entry to Tesla’s Supercharger stations in North America beginning July 31.
However there’s a giant caveat.
House owners of the newly obtainable Lucid Gravity have already got entry to Tesla’s Supercharger community because the car is provided with a local NACS cost port.
Nevertheless, the Lucid Air, Lucid’s luxurious electrical sedan, continues to be outfitted with the CCS1 port and requires an adapter to make the most of the Supercharger community.
Lucid introduced in the present day that Air house owners will acquire entry on July 31:
All Lucid Air house owners, no matter mannequin or mannequin yr, will acquire entry to the North American Tesla Supercharger community beginning July 31, 2025. In contrast to the Lucid Gravity, with its native NACS cost port and high-tech enhance charging capabilities, Lucid Air makes use of a NACS adapter obtainable from Lucid to plug into appropriate Tesla Superchargers (V3 and above). The DC NACS to CCS1 adapter might be priced at $220 US excluding taxes.
The one drawback is that Air house owners are going to be restricted to only a 50 kW peak cost price utilizing this adapter. Lucid wrote within the launch:
Utilizing this resolution, the Air can cost at as much as 50 kW and acquire as much as 200 miles of vary per hour of charging, giving house owners further peace of thoughts whereas on the highway. With the adapter, house owners will be capable of provoke charging on Tesla Superchargers by way of the Lucid App, with a bank card saved to their Lucid Pockets.
It will considerably restrict the community’s usefulness for Air house owners and improve visitors attributable to longer charging periods. The rationale for the limitation is at the moment unclear.
Nevertheless, many Lucid house owners are probably to decide on stations the place they’ll make the most of the 300 kW peak cost price of the Air.
Emad Dlala, Senior Vice President of Powertrain at Lucid Motors, commented on the announcement:
“Along with providing the longest-range electrical car obtainable, Lucid is dedicated to providing our prospects seamless and large entry to public charging. Entry to the Tesla Supercharging community for the Lucid Air is yet one more main milestone.”
Electrical automakers have all been transitioning their autos to the NACS connector in North America to standardize cost connectors and make the most of Tesla’s Supercharger community, which is probably the most extensible and dependable EV fast-charging community in North America.
