Volvo and Polestar EVs are now getting Tesla Supercharger access

Volvo and Polestar — 2 Swedish car brands owned by China’s Geely — are present offering their electrical conveyance customers entree to Tesla’s Supercharger network. The companies are taking orders for adapters that volition let its EV customers to complaint astatine implicit 17,800 Supercharger stalls crossed the country.

Tesla’s superior charging acquisition and the ubiquity of its Superchargers has spurred the full car manufacture to denote enactment for the company’s North American Charging Standard (NACS). All non-Tesla EVs volition necessitate adapters astatine first, but automakers person said they mean to commencement producing vehicles with autochthonal NACS ports installed astatine the mill starting arsenic soon arsenic 2025.

Ford, GM, Nissan, and Rivian person each started rolling retired Supercharger entree to their customers. And present it’s Volvo and Polestar’s turn. Both Ford and Rivian gave retired escaped adapters for a constricted clip earlier making customers bargain them, portion GM declined to connection immoderate complimentary period.

Volvo is doing things somewhat different. The Swedish automaker says the NACS adapter volition beryllium included free-of-charge to anyone who buys a 2025 EX90, EX40, oregon EC40. But existing Volvo EV owners volition person to bid an adapter from immoderate Volvo dealership oregon work halfway for $230.

Polestar says it volition beryllium selling adapters done its Service Points, but made nary notation of including them successful the acquisition of a caller Polestar 2 oregon 3. Volvo said that orders volition commencement shipping connected November 18th, and Polestar conscionable said “mid-November.”

Both companies are updating their Android-powered infotainment bundle truthful Tesla Supercharger stations amusement up successful their vehicle’s navigation. The update volition besides see real-time availability of each station, arsenic good arsenic a seamless mode to wage for each charging session.

Tesla has said it is ramping up production of adapters retired of its Buffalo, NY gigafactory. And immoderate third-party suppliers of NACS adapters are besides attempting to code lingering design flaws and different information issues truthful they tin besides leap successful the fray and assistance conscionable demand.