Fisker Becomes the 8th Automaker to Adopt Tesla Charging Standard

• Fisker says it will adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard starting in 2025, with NACS adapters to be available for Fisker models starting that year.
• NACS ports will be installed on Fisker models as a standard feature at a later point, the company said, without providing specific timing.
• Fisker becomes the eighth automaker to announce plans to adopt NACS, after a number of other major automakers revealed similar plans, albeit on a closer timeline.

Fisker became the latest automaker to reveal plans to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS), permitting owners of its vehicles to use Tesla Superchargers in the near future.

If you’re keeping track of the number of automakers that have decided to adopt NACS, Fisker brings that number up to eight, not counting EV charging companies that have also announced plans to add NACS connectors. So far, this includes General Motors, Ford, Volvo, Polestar, Nissan, Rivian, and Mercedes-Benz.

Out of all of these manufacturers, Rivian has been the only one that has invested in building up its own Adventure Network, while others have inked agreements with myriad third-party charging networks for the benefit of their vehicle owners.

But unlike other automakers, Fisker owners will only be able to start using Superchargers via NACS adapters in the first quarter of 2025, rather than in 2024. This represents a later timetable for the start of Supercharger availability.

“Fisker will later update vehicle engineering to include an NACS inlet,” the company said, without mentioning timing.

By comparison, several other automakers had announced plans to integrate NACS ports in 2025, and will plan to provide their owners with CCS connectors to assure access to existing CCS stations in 2024.

One possible explanation for this later timing is that the Fisker Pear is itself delayed until 2025, so it will likely get NACS ports right from the start. This will leave Fisker only with a year and a half of Ocean SUV production with CCS ports.

“The move will provide Fisker owners with additional charging options, taking advantage of Tesla’s 12,000 Supercharger stations in the United States and Canada,” Fisker said, thus suggesting the plans won’t extend to Europe and other markets that will continue to use CCS connectors. Tesla vehicles in Europe use CCS connectors, we should add, so that’s not unusual per se.

In a couple of years, Tesla’s Supercharger stations are bound to see quite a few different EVs lined up to use the chargers.

Could other automakers’ adoption of NACS eventually erode the appeal of the once-exclusive Supercharger network for Tesla owners? Let us know in the comments below.