Lucid Air owners will be able to use Tesla Superchargers from July 31

Owners of Lucid Air Sedan will be able to charge their luxury EV at thousands of North America’s Tesla Supercharger stations, starting from July 31, about two years after the automackers arrived at an agreement. However, there is a significant warning: Lucide Air Vehicles will not be able to charge faster like Tesla vehicles.

Lucid said on Tuesday that all Lucid Air Cedans, regardless of the model year, will be able to access the network of Tesla quickly, which cost $ 220 with the approved adapter. Tesla V3 (and above) Supercharger stations are compatible with Lucid Air adapter.

However, the air will only be able to charge 50 kW, these superchargers are much lower than the 250 kW peak rate. The subject is derived from Lucid’s 924-volt charging system and an dissimilarity between the 400V Tesla Superchargers. Lucid, and any other EV, including 800-volt charging systems, simply cannot charge as soon as they are designed for charger designed for them Customer Report Note.

Lucid spokesman Andrew Hassy explained that engineers re -expressed the hardware in the air integrated charging system known as the Wonderbox, so that the system was to work and activate 50 kW boost charging while using the supercharger. He also added that the owners of the Lucid Roadtripes or work close to the superchargers or the owners who do or work have seen 50 kW charging for the air as another alternative.

Unlike the Lucid Gravity SUV, which was launched earlier this year, the wind is still built with the Combined Charging System (CCS). CCS was considered as Go-to-EV Charging Standard in North America and all automackers with a significant exception. Tesla has created its own charging standard, which includes the built -in charging port as well as an EV charging connector. In 2022, Tesla shared it EV charging connector design In an attempt to encourage network operators and automaker to adopt the technology and to help create a new North American value.

Tesla calls Standard North America Charging Standard or Nax. In May 2023, Ford became the first automaker to reach an agreement with Tesla that would give its EV owners access to the supercharger network. Existing Ford EV owners will use an adapter to use the Tesla Network. However Ford – and soon almost every automaker, including GMRivian, Honda, MercedesHyundai, Kia, Toyota – also agreed that the NACS charging port will be built on its vehicle in its future EVSs.

Lucid was among the latest companies Make a deal with TeslaThe And like others, Lucid declared that the next EV, Gravity SUV, would have a built-in NACS charging port.