Polestar and Volvo on Tuesday confirmed details of its rollout of Tesla North American Charging Standard (NACS) adoption, which the automakers claim will give customers access to more than 17,800 Tesla Supercharger DC fast-charging stations.
Current Polestar owners can now order a $230 NACS adapter through their local service center, with deliveries planned for mid-November, the automaker said in a press release. Volvo will also offer adapters to existing customers through its dealers for the same price, and will include free adapters with new EX90, EX40, and EC40 purchases or leases. Adapters for the China-made Volvo EX30, currently in limbo due to steep tariffs on EVs imported from that country, will be announced later.
2025 Volvo EX90
Future EVs from both brands will adopt the NACS port as standard equipment. When they announced Supercharger access in 2023, both Volvo and Polestar said this would happen starting in 2025, but didn’t provide any updates with this announcement.
Most major EV brands have at this point committed to NACS, but are adopting the Tesla charge port at varying speeds. Ford was the first to announce, in May 2023, and became the first to provide Supercharger access when it began shipping free adapters in February. Rivian followed with its own free adapters in March, and General Motors announced adapters in September. But GM charges $225 for them.
Polestar 3 at a Tesla Supercharger station
Hyundai has so far skipped over the Tesla adapter phase, announcing in September that the 2025 Ioniq 5 would be built with an NACS port. The automaker will instead offer adapters for the Combined Charging Standard (CCS) port the Ioniq 5 previously used, maintaining access to the considerable number of CCS stations also in operation.
Polestar began as a racing team closely aligned with Volvo, evolving into a performance brand for Volvo before the latter’s parent company, Chinese automaker Geely, repurposed it as a standalone brand in 2017. While the two brands share resources and vehicle platforms, Polestar has been pulling in its own direction with plans to make its own motors and other components, while Volvo earlier this year lessened its funding commitment to Polestar.
