Hyundai just announced more details of 2025 Ioniq5 (USA made with native NACS port). It comes with 135kw converter for 400V, making it a bit more faster at Tesla V3 stations.
“Owners can plug in natively at a Tesla Supercharger station just a Tesla Model Y or Cybertruck owner would. When they do, the peak charging rate they will see on most Superchargers (the V3 ones, specifically, so all of them) they will see maximum speeds of 135 kW.
Using the CCS adapter, Ioniq 5 owners will see speeds of up to 257 kW when they use a 350 kW DC fast charger. That should take the car from 10% to 80% in 20 minutes, regardless of their battery size. And it's right in line with the performance of the previous Ioniq 5 on a CCS fast-charger.”
This is of course good news (135kW > 95kW), but it's still funny to me you get better speeds if you use a CCS -> NACS adapter at a 350kW EA charger.
And it looks like the charging at high-voltage chargers (like EA's 350s) is improved over previous model years too, given that it will hit 257kW now.
This is all still just auto manufacturers trying to deal with the fact that Tesla’s charging stations are old and outdated. None of this will matter in a decade because either a) Tesla will get off their ass and actually build 1kV cabinets, or, b) Tesla superchargers will never be 1kV and we all switched to NACS for no reason but at least the plug is smaller I guess.
Don’t really care which one it is. But I don’t plan on charging at superchargers unless I either a) have no other option, or b) they have 1000kV cabinets and I don’t feel like I’m wasting my and everyone else’s time. I don’t want to be the Bolt at the chargers, just because Tesla’s stuff is old.
There are plenty of CCS chargers wherever I go. They are fast af.
If I’m driving through the middle of the country? Sure, the three times I do that I might use a supercharger.
Obviously, YMMV.
