Volvo is the primary overseas automaker to announce the adoption of Tesla’s NACS EV charging customary. 

With a Tuesday affirmation, Volvo stated that future Volvo fashions, beginning in 2025, will get the NACS connector for North America. 

Volvo appeared to point that the upcoming $35,000 EX30 EV and U.S.-made EX90, that are each as a result of arrive for first U.S. deliveries earlier than 2025, will nonetheless have the CCS interface. It stated these fashions—in addition to the XC40 and C40 Recharge already provided, will be capable of be charged on the Tesla Supercharger community with an adapter that will probably be accessible within the first half of 2024. At the moment, the Supercharger community may also be included within the Volvo Vehicles app.

Volvo EX30 charging

The sheer variety of extra charging choices is the benefit this announcement brings to homeowners. Volvo drivers may have entry to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers within the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, the corporate stated. Though it bears emphasis that within the U.S., whereas there are extra Tesla connectors, there are extra CCS areas. 

Inexperienced Automobile Reviews has reached out to Volvo to make clear how this may have an effect on its plug-in hybrid fashions, which have been a big and necessary portion of the lineup, topping 20% of U.S. gross sales for the previous couple years within the transition towards full-electric automobiles.

Volvo doesn’t at present have any fashions that cost at 800 volts—a possible challenge for automakers equivalent to GM as Tesla’s present Supercharger V3 customary doesn’t enable that. V4 of the interface, which is simply beginning to arrive, will. 

Tesla Supercharger

Volvo follows Ford, GM, and Rivian—all U.S.-based automakers—in adopting the NACS customary. It is shift that has acted as a wake-up name for the charging trade, which has, as an entire, did not act shortly sufficient amid widespread technical points and downtime. Volvo plugged into CCS in 2016 and was the final main European automaker that sells automobiles in North America to leap on the CCS bandwagon.