The Volkswagen ID.4 and ID.Buzz will Gain Access to the North American Tesla Supercharger Network on November 18th

• This will open up 25,000 additional DC fast charging stations across North America for Volkswagen EV drivers.

• Since these models still have a CCS charging port, an adaptor will be required.

• This part will be available online or at VW dealers for purchase by ID.4 owners and free of charge for ID.Buzz owners.

Volkswagen is the latest automaker to gain access to the Tesla Supercharging network for its electric vehicles in North America, following behind a number of its competitors.

Indeed, the German automaker announced today that owners of the ID.4 and ID.Buzz EVs will be able to stop for a charge at one of the 25,000 Supercharger locations across Canada and the United States starting on November 18^th.

To do so, drivers will need to obtain an NACS (Tesla) to CCS DC fast charging adaptor in order for the Tesla charging cable to connect to their vehicles, which don’t yet feature the NACS charging port.

This adapter will be available for free to owners of the ID.Buzz electric minivan, but those who drive an ID.4 crossover will have to purchase the item, either from a dealership’s parts department, or from the online Volkswagen Canada Parts Counter.

Since this is only meant to allow DC fast charging, Volkswagen EVs will remain incompatible with Tesla destination chargers and NACS-only home chargers.

Sources claimed that some 2025 Volkswagen electric models would come with an NACS port from the factory in North America, but at the time of writing in November 2025, all ID.4 and ID.Buzz units destined for Canada and the United States still come with a CCS plug.

The decision to allow access to the Tesla network to Volkswagen EVs means that it will now be much more convenient for ID.4 and ID.Buzz owners to take their electric vehicle on a road trip, especially in the United States, where CCS fast-charging stations are sometimes few and far between.

Tesla Superchargers also have a better reputation in terms of reliability than their main competitors, including Electrify America (and Electrify Canada), which is a subsidiary of Volkswagen that was setup in the wake of the Dieselgate scandal a decade ago.

After Ford announced its electric vehicles would be compatible with the North American Charging Standard, most other major automakers followed suit in a matter of weeks, not wanting to be left behind on a matter that is still a major obstacle to EV ownership.

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Indeed, driver surveys consistently place charging and affordability as two of the main reasons why drivers who bought a new gas-powered vehicle didn’t choose an electric model instead.

With 25,000 new charging locations, in addition to all of the existing CCS chargers that remain accessible to VW EVs, charging concerns could become less of a roadblock for the purchase of an ID.4 or an ID.Buzz.

Audi and Porsche, other VW Group brands, already have access to Tesla Superchargers through an adapter, and we know that the Scout terra and Traveller will come equipped with an NACS port once they arrive in 2027 or 2028.