Kia has introduced that house owners of the EV6, EV9, and Niro EVs have formally gained entry to over 21,500 Tesla Supercharger places in North America.
Nevertheless, its announcement additionally contained an apology to Tesla.
First, Kia stated that its three EV choices may have entry to Tesla’s expansive Supercharger Community. Greater than 40,000 DC quick chargers can be found to Kia EV drivers, a serious uptick as Tesla Supercharger entry practically doubles the variety of accessible piles.
Sean Yoon, President of Kia North America and Kia America, stated:
“Kia is dedicated to an distinctive possession expertise, and increasing the community of obtainable DC quick chargers to our EV clients is a crucial element to sustaining the model’s management in electrified mobility. Now, with entry to the Tesla Supercharger community of DC quick chargers, our EV house owners can really feel much more assured of their resolution to buy or lease a completely electrical Kia automobile.”
Kia house owners who’ve a CCS1 Charging Port may have entry to an NACS adapter by means of dealerships. This can allow compatibility, as present inlets usually are not NACS, the port that Tesla makes use of.
Nevertheless, Kia will eradicate the necessity for this adapter beginning with the 2025 EV6 and 2026 EV9. These will come commonplace with NACS inlets.
We talked about Kia included considerably of an apology to Tesla, which is expounded to social media posts from “sure Nordic distributors,” as the corporate places it:
Kia paid for a entrance web page advert on Finland’s largest newspaper to mock Elon Musk and Tesla.
Translation: “Oh, These Days of Life. In the event you’re not sure about driving an american electrical automotive, welcome to the Helsinki Exhibition Centre to admire the automobiles of the brand new age.”
It’s a play on… pic.twitter.com/XfwOJVIGll
— Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) April 5, 2025
Kia stated in its announcement:
“Kia America is conscious of promoting posts by sure Nordic distributors. These initiatives have been developed fully independently by these distributors, with out path from Kia America, Kia Europe or Kia World. We would like it to be clear that these posts don’t replicate the place of Kia America, and we stay dedicated to clear {and professional} communication that displays our values.”
The corporate additionally stated that it “condemns the current assaults that disrupt the provision of handy and reasonably priced charging for our clients.”
