- Lucid said the Gravity SUV will get a NACS charge port in 2025
- Initial deliveries of the electric Gravity SUV will have a CCS charge port
- Lucid hasn’t said when the Air sedan will get a NACS charge port
Lucid just put a timeline to its transition to Tesla’s North American Charging System (NACS) charge port.
On Tuesday, during the automaker’s manufacturing and technology day, Lucid posted on Twitter (now known as X) that the upcoming Gravity electric SUV will come with Tesla’s NACS charge port starting in 2025.
The announcement came with two images showing that the NACS port will be mounted on the driver’s side rear fender. The location of the charge port is different than the pre-production Gravity units rolling off the assembly line today, which feature a CCS charge port on the driver’s side front fender.
The new charge port location is the same area on the vehicle where Tesla places its charge ports, which allows vehicles to neatly back into parking spots at Tesla Superchargers.
Lucid Gravity with Tesla NACS charge port
Twitter users were quick to note the new charge port door and housing is large compared to what’s necessary for the smaller NACS port, but the reasoning could be to easily allow space for a CCS2 port, which is the fast-charging standard in Europe
Lucid has said deliveries of the Gravity SUV will begin later this year, which means the first cars off the line going to customers will still have a CCS charge port, likely on the front fender as originally shown and seen on prototypes.
Lucid hasn’t said when the Air sedan will make the switch to a NACS charge port, or whether the charge port location will move on the sedan. The automaker also didn’t show full images of the Gravity with the NACS port. Missing is the front half of the car, which is where today’s CCS charge port is located.
Lucid committed to adopt Tesla’s NACS charge port on Nov. 6, 2023. The announcement on Tuesday is the first time the automaker’s given a timeline to the move.
During the event Lucid tweeted an image of its upcoming midsize electric SUV that will be about the size of the Tesla Model Y. The automaker said the SUV will arrive late in 2026 and cost less than $50,000.
