Kia has introduced that house owners of the EV6, EV9, and Niro EVs have formally gained entry to over 21,500 Tesla Supercharger areas in North America.
Nonetheless, its announcement additionally contained an apology to Tesla.
First, Kia stated that its three EV choices could 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 almost 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 accessible DC quick chargers to our EV prospects is a vital part 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 choice to buy or lease a completely electrical Kia car.”
Kia house owners who’ve a CCS1 Charging Port could have entry to an NACS adapter by way of dealerships. This may allow compatibility, as present inlets aren’t NACS, the port that Tesla makes use of.
Nonetheless, Kia will get rid of the necessity for this adapter beginning with the 2025 EV6 and 2026 EV9. These will come normal with NACS inlets.
We talked about Kia included considerably of an apology to Tesla, which is said 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. If you happen to’re not sure about driving an american electrical automobile, welcome to the Helsinki Exhibition Centre to admire the vehicles 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 latest assaults that disrupt the provision of handy and inexpensive charging for our prospects.”
