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Tesla Model X charging

The Tesla Model X is an electric suv. You fill it from a NACS plug at home and from a NACS plug on a long drive, and its longest 2026 version is rated at 352 miles on a full battery. Every number below says which version of the car it belongs to, and the two sliders below turn a charge into a time and a price.

Official range (EPA)

352 mi

2026 Model X

How far a full battery is rated to go on the US test.

Battery size

95 kWh

Tesla Model X AWD (MY26)

The size of the tank. Bigger means more miles between stops.

Fastest charge

250 kW

10–80% in 30 min

How wide the hose is at a fast charger.

Plugs it uses

NACS

NACS at home and slow posts

The shape that has to fit the socket.

Price from

$99,990

2026 Long Range AWD

Before tax, delivery and incentives. 2 versions priced, up to $114,990.

The range and battery cards name different versions on purpose. One is the longest 2026 row the EPA tested, the other is the catalogue's charging record — because the EPA lists a range per trim and the catalogue lists one battery per trim. The price is a third source again: the cheapest version on the price sheet, which is not always the version the other two cards describe. Nothing below quietly mixes them.

Tesla Model X (2026 model year)

SUV · 2016–2026 · AWD

7 seats. 425 L of boot space plus a 183 L front trunk. The photo is the model the catalogue lists, not a photo of a particular car for sale.

Start here

Six terms, in plain words

None of this needs a physics degree. Each term on a window sticker is one idea, and here they are in the order they turn up.

EPA range

A score from one official test.

The car runs on a rolling road until the battery is empty. Every car sits the same test, so the numbers compare fairly. It is a lab score, not a promise: a cold morning or a steady 75 mph uses more energy than the test did.

US trim

A version of the same car.

The body is the same; the wheels, motors or battery are not. A model is usually sold in several versions — Pure, Touring and Grand Touring on this car — and the EPA publishes a range for each one it tested, which is why one model carries several numbers for one year.

kWh

The size of the tank.

A kilowatt-hour is a unit of energy. A bigger battery holds more of it and goes further. This page shows the usable figure where the data says so, because a pack never gives up every last bit.

kW

How wide the hose is.

A kilowatt is a rate: energy per second. The same battery fills from a 1.4 kW wall socket or a 200 kW-plus fast charger. Wide hose, quicker fill — as long as the car and the station both agree.

AC and DC

Two kinds of electricity.

Home wiring supplies AC, and the car's own charger turns it into DC. A fast charger does that conversion in the station and feeds the battery directly, which is why it is many times quicker.

10–80%

The happy middle of a battery.

Packs accept full power in the middle and slow right down past 80% to protect the cells. That is why a road-trip stop is usually 10% to 80%: the last fifth can take as long as the first half.

Range

How far can it go on one charge?

The Tesla Model X is rated between 335 and 352 miles on a full battery, depending on the version; the highest belongs to the 2026 Model X.

The official figure comes from the EPA, the US agency that scores every car the same way: a full battery, a rolling road, and a number of miles at the end. It is the fair way to compare two cars, and still only a lab score — wind, hills, heaters and speed all take a bite out of it.

Check any car on fueleconomy.gov
Model year

In 2026, the Tesla Model X was rated between 335 mi and 352 mi on a full battery, depending on the version.

  1. Model X

    352 mi

     
  2. Plaid

    335 mi

    −17 mi

Trim names are the EPA's own labels, unedited, so “G Touring” is short for Grand Touring. Each row is a version the EPA tested; a version it did not test has no row. Figures are miles on the EPA's lab test, not a prediction of your commute.

Charging time

How long does a charge take?

A 10–80% fast stop takes about 30 minutes at a charger that can deliver the car's peak, and a full charge on a 7.2 kW home charger takes about 15 hours.

Three things decide it, and the slowest one wins: what the station can supply, what the car will accept, and how much the battery wants at that moment. Move the sliders and the answer changes with you.

Step 1 — where are you plugging in?

The usual highway stop.

Step 2 — how full is the battery, and how full do you want it?
0%80% — most cars slow down here100%

60% of the battery, from 20% to 80%.

Step 3 — what do you pay per kWh?

Your charge

Time at this charger
26 min
Cost
$19.95
Energy
57 kWh

About a lunch stop. The session draws about 133 kW on average — a peak figure would be a promise the last part of the charge does not keep.

Times use the 95 kWh battery and 250 kW DC peak from the Tesla Model X AWD (MY26) record, and scale from its 30-minute 10–80% figure. Above 80% the estimate assumes a much slower rate; cold batteries and shared stations can be slower still.

The station

1.4–350 kW

A wall socket gives about 1.4 kW; a highway post 150–350 kW. The site's rating is a ceiling, not a promise.

The car

11 kW AC

The car takes no more than its own limit — 250 kW on DC, 11 kW on AC. A bigger charger cannot change that.

The battery

slower past 80%

Above 80% the pack asks for far less power to protect the cells, which is why trips stop at 80%.

The reasoning behind those numbers is on how long EV charging takes and Level 2 vs DC fast.

Plugs

Which plug fits this car?

Only two shapes matter: the one on the car and the one on the charger. The AC plug covers home charging and slow public posts; the DC plug covers fast stops on a trip.

A Tesla charging with the NACS (North American Charging Standard) connector.

NACS

AC and DC charging

SAE J3400 · Rate set by the station

NACS is Tesla's charging connector, now standardized as SAE J3400. It carries both AC and DC charging, and it is the inlet on Teslas and a growing number of newer EVs.

Where you meet it: tesla and nacs-native vehicles.

Photo: Steve Jurvetson · CC BY 2.0

An adapter changes the shape of the plug, not what the car can accept or what the station can supply. It can bridge a standard; it cannot create power, access or a faster session.

This page lists the connectors the model reports. The directory records the connector a station reports, so a station that carries both a J1772 post and a CCS1 fast charger appears under each — and a car is not guaranteed a free one.

Cost

What does a charge cost?

Charging is priced by the kilowatt-hour, like electricity at home. The directory's median tariff is $0.35 per kWh — the middle of the prices networks actually list, not a quote for any one station.

At that median, filling the 95 kWh battery from empty at a DC post bills about $35.00. A 10–80% stop, the usual road-trip habit, moves about 70% of it and bills about $24.50. Type your own price into the calculator above to see your number instead.

Both figures are metered energy, not battery energy: a DC post puts roughly 95% of what it draws into the pack, so the bill sits slightly above battery × price. At home the conversion is closer to 90%. What is not in either figure: session fees, idle fees, parking and taxes. The state cost table has the local medians, and cost per mile turns this into a comparison with petrol.

Sources

US figures from the October 2026 data build. How these sources are chosen, and what a figure here never claims, is on the methodology page.

Full charge

$35.00

At $0.35 per kWh at a DC post, charging losses included.

10–80% stop

$24.50

About 70% of the battery, which is what most trips use.

Cheapest state median

$0.28

Iowa, per kWh — the lowest state median with a comparable sample.

Priced stations

3,805

Stations in the directory that publish a per-kWh tariff.

CalculatorPrice a charge for your state and your tariff

Prices

What it costs, version by version

The 2026 Tesla Model X starts at $99,990 for the Long Range AWD and reaches $114,990 for the Plaid — $15,000 between the two ends of the same car. 2 versions are listed for that model year.

These are manufacturer list prices, as the price sheet records them. They are not a quote: sales tax, destination and delivery charges, options and any incentive are outside them, and a dealer's number will differ.

Price sheet · October 2026

Starts at

$99,990

Long Range AWD, 2026.

Top version

$114,990

Plaid — the dearest version listed.

Versions priced

2

Model year 2026. Earlier or later years are not in the sheet.

Per mile of range

$284

$78 above the median across every priced model here. List price divided by the sheet's own rated range on the cheapest version.

List prices by version for the Tesla Model X
VersionYearDriveBatteryDC peak0–100 km/hList price
Long Range AWDCheapest2026AWD95 kWh250 kW4.1 s$99,990
Plaid2026AWD96 kWh250 kW2.8 s$114,990

The Long Range AWD, in numbers

Price sheet
Seats
7
Cargo volume
425 L (15 cu ft)
Front trunk
183 L (6.5 cu ft)
Towing
2,268 kg (5,000.078 lb)
Curb weight
2,423 kg (5,341.794 lb)
Top speed
240 km/h (149.129 mph)
Power
504 kW (675.874 hp)
Torque
755 Nm (556.859 lb-ft)
Onboard AC charger
11 kW
Battery chemistry
NCA
Vehicle-to-load
No
Plug and charge
Yes

The table names versions, not trims the EPA tested. A price row and an EPA row can therefore differ in wording even when they describe the same car — the sheet writes “Long Range AWD” where the label may write something else. The EPA rows are listed below, unedited.

Rated range is in this sheet too, but it is not printed here: it disagrees with the EPA label on a handful of rows, and two range figures for one car on one page is a page that argues with itself. The price-per-mile figure above stays inside the sheet's own numbers. The longest-legged version in the sheet is the Long Range AWD at 352 miles of rated range (566 km).

Battery, DC peak and the 0–100 time are the sheet's own per-version figures, which is why they can differ from the single catalogue record in the specifications section: a model sold in several battery sizes has one number per size, not one number for the car. 1 mile = 1.609 km.

These are list prices, not quotes. For the whole field side by side, see every model ranked by price.

US trims

Every version, year by year

This is the list the chart above is drawn from. The names are the EPA's own labels, kept exactly as published — spelling, abbreviations and all — because rewriting a source label is how a table stops matching its source.

41 rows from fueleconomy.gov
Show every EPA row (41)Year · trim · range
US trims and EPA range for the Tesla Model X
YearTrimEPA range
2026Model X352 mi
2026Model X Plaid335 mi
2025Model X329 mi
2025Model X Plaid (20in wheels)314 mi
2025Model X Plaid (22in wheels)294 mi
2024Model X335 mi
2024Model X Plaid (20in wheels)326 mi
2024Model X Plaid (22in wheels)300 mi
2023Model X348 mi
2023Model X Plaid (20 inch wheels)333 mi
2023Model X Plaid (22 inch wheels)311 mi
2022Model X348 mi
2022Model X Plaid (20 inch wheels)333 mi
2022Model X Plaid (22 inch wheels)311 mi
2021Model X Long Range Plus371 mi
2021Model X Performance (20in Wheels)341 mi
2021Model X Performance (22in Wheels)300 mi
2020Model X Long Range328 mi
2020Model X Long Range Plus351 mi
2020Model X Performance (20in Wheels)305 mi
2020Model X Performance (22in Wheels)272 mi
2020Model X Standard Range258 mi
2019Model X 100D295 mi
2019Model X 75D238 mi
2019Model X Long Range325 mi
2019Model X P100D289 mi
2019Model X Performance (22in Wheels)270 mi
2018Model X 100D295 mi
2018Model X 75D238 mi
2018Model X P100D289 mi
2017Model X AWD - 100D295 mi
2017Model X AWD - 60D200 mi
2017Model X AWD - 75D238 mi
2017Model X AWD - 90D257 mi
2017Model X AWD - P100D289 mi
2017Model X AWD - P90D250 mi
2016Model X AWD - 60D200 mi
2016Model X AWD - 75D238 mi
2016Model X AWD - 90D257 mi
2016Model X AWD - P100D289 mi
2016Model X AWD - P90D250 mi

EPA figures are the US label; they are not converted from WLTP. A trim the EPA does not list has no row, and an all-wheel-drive version of a rear-drive model appears as its own row because the EPA tested it separately.

Catalogue detail

Specifications

From the European catalogue trim Tesla Model X AWD (MY26) (2026). US trims, EPA range and connectors are above; equipment and dimensions can differ by market.

Performance

Performance from the European catalogue trim
Power504 kW (676 hp)
0–100 km/h3.9 s
Top speed240 km/h (149 mph)
DrivetrainAWD
PlatformTesla S/X

Battery, range and V2X

Battery, range and V2X from the European catalogue trim
Usable battery95 kWh
Nominal battery100 kWh
ChemistryLithium-ion
Nominal voltage407 V
Cell count7,920 cells
Pack configuration110s72p
Warranty8 years / 240,000 km
WLTP range (EU)490 km (304 mi)
Efficiency (WLTP)19.4 kWh/100 km
Cold highway (catalogue estimate)319 km (198 mi)
Mild urban (catalogue estimate)564 km (350 mi)
V2HNot supported
V2GNot supported

WLTP and catalogue estimates describe the European trim; EPA range is above. V2X rows are the maker's catalogue equipment.

Dimensions and practicality

Dimensions and practicality from the European catalogue trim
Length5,063 mm (199.3 in)
Width (with mirrors)2,271 mm (89.4 in)
Height1,680 mm (66.1 in)
Wheelbase2,965 mm (116.7 in)
Curb weight2,423 kg (5,342 lb)
GVWR2,780 kg (6,129 lb)
Payload432 kg (952 lb)
Turning circle12.4 m (40.7 ft)
Boot425 L (15 cu ft)
Max cargo2,675 L (94.5 cu ft)
Frunk183 L (6.5 cu ft)
Towing (braked)2,300 kg (5,071 lb)
Towing (unbraked)750 kg (1,653 lb)
Seats7
SegmentJF - Luxury
ISOFIXYes, 2 seats
Roof railsNo
Heat pumpStandard Equipment

Questions

Answers, briefly

Short answers first, the reasoning below each. Every figure here comes from the same data as the rest of the page.

Still unsure about a term? The charging glossary covers the rest of them.

What connector does the Tesla Model X use?

It lists NACS for AC charging and NACS for DC fast charging. NACS is what a home charger and a slow public post use; NACS is the fast plug for a longer trip. An adapter may bridge another standard, but support varies by vehicle and station.

How long does it take to charge a Tesla Model X?

The catalogue's 95 kWh usable battery and 250 kW DC peak give a 10–80% session of about 30 minutes at a station that can deliver the power. AC charging peaks at 11 kW, which suits overnight charging rather than a trip stop.

What is the EPA range of the Tesla Model X?

The 2026 Tesla Model X is rated between 335 and 352 miles, depending on the trim. The highest figure belongs to the Model X; every model year the EPA tested is listed on the page, and each row is a different version of the same car.

What does "US trim" mean on this page?

A trim is a version of the same car: same body, different wheels, motors or battery. The EPA tests each version separately, so one model can carry several range figures for the same year. Bigger wheels are the usual reason two rows differ, because they add drag and rolling resistance.

How much does it cost to charge a Tesla Model X?

At the directory's median of $0.35 per kWh, filling the 95 kWh battery from empty at a DC post bills about $35.00, and a 10–80% session about $24.50. Both are metered energy, so the charging loss is inside them. The median is the middle of the per-kWh tariffs networks list; session fees, idle fees and parking are excluded, and a home tariff is often cheaper.

Can a Tesla Model X use a Tesla Supercharger?

The Tesla Model X's fast-charge plug is NACS. Some Tesla sites in this directory report a NACS plug; whether a particular site accepts an adapter is not recorded, so filter the map for NACS before you rely on one.

How much does a Tesla Model X cost?

The 2026 Tesla Model X is listed from $99,990 for the Long Range AWD up to $114,990 for the Plaid. Those are manufacturer list prices before sales tax, destination and delivery charges, options and any incentive, and a dealer's number will differ. 2 versions are priced for that model year.