South Korean automakers Kia, Hyundai and luxury auto brand Genesis announced Thursday that their electric vehicles in the United States will have Tesla-style charging ports, starting in the last quarter of 2024. This will allow owners of those vehicles to seamlessly use Tesla chargers.
The brands join Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Honda and others in pledging to switch over to Tesla’s North American Charging Standard.
In 2025, Hyundai will begin providing adapters to owners of older Hyundai models with the Combined Charging System ports their EVs are currently built with. The adapters will allow these EVs to also use the Tesla-style chargers.
The three South Korean automakers are all part of Hyundai Motor Group, although Hyundai and Kia operate as separate companies in the United States.
This marks an especially significant development for the Tesla charging system. Counted together, Hyundai, Kia and Genesis would be the second-best-selling EV manufacturer in the United States after Tesla, according to figures from Kelley Blue Book. The three brands together sold 37,800 EVs in the first half of 2023. (Tesla sold more than 330,000 in that period.)
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