Most home chargers deliver the charging capacity of 3kW or 7kW. Some 22kW chargers can be installed, delivering a charge of around 40 miles in roughly an hour. Note that they require a three-phase supply, rather than the single-phase most UK residential homes are built with, and not all vehicles will accept that power delivery from a home supply.

Installation takes around four hours, providing the existing RCD and electrical connections are robust enough to accommodate the charger. Installation takes around four hours and is relatively straightforward. The EO Mini Pro 2 requires a dedicated 30mA Type A RCD on the supply circuit and has integral 6mA DC leakage detection, so no Type B RCD is required.Sadly, there’s no solar charging integration or colour choice. What’s more, the Ohme Home Pro is only offered on a tethered basis, and the open cabling means it looks a bit messy. While the Ohme Home requires an additional charge for a Garo earthing device, the Home Pro gets built-in grounding technology. The Ohme Home Pro isn’t as versatile as others, but its price (alongside that screen) makes it a worthy contender for those car brands that are supported.

Built-in fuse protection guards your home circuits from shorting by isolating the car from the rest of the supply. Meanwhile, new grounding technology means physical earth rods are no longer as much of a consideration, but could be an additional cost, depending on the charge point provider. If your installation is for a workplace or commercial entity then being able to be flexible and make changes can be vital. This modular option offers a charging solution for your business to make the management of your electric vehicle fleet as easy as possible. The footprint is so small the EO Mini Pro 2 is perfect for installation on a post, like in this installation below (credit: @EvPoints): Comparable with other fast chargers on the market, the EO Mini Pro 2 offers a reasonably speedy charging time- especially considering its compact size. The single-phase connection simply means that the power flows through a single conductor instead of three. While a three-phase charger can work faster, they are not compatible with various AC suppliers, and installing an appropriate cable comes with a price.

British Gas install

The EO Mini Pro 2 doesn’t have “O-PEN” protection built-in. O-PEN detects if the earth is faulty/missing coming into the property and shuts down the charger (if the earth is faulty or missing, and there’s a fault on the charger then the car body could become live). Session details are stored in the cloud, letting you view charging sessions at all times whether the vehicle is plugged in or not. The Indra Smart PRO has the excellent Kaluza app, solar integration, and a BOOST button that overrides any schedules and charge settings for max power. Some EV chargers offer energy management systems that allow you to charge your vehicle using only the green energy generated by your solar panels, or a mix of green and grid energy. For example, Wallbox provides Eco-Smart solar EV charging as a feature in their Pulsar Max and Copper SB models. This capability lets you choose between fully green or mixed charging modes, depending on your energy production and consumption at home.

The Ohme Home Pro has something no other charging device on this list has: a digital display. Appealing to anyone who has endured the frustration of waiting for a smartphone app to connect, the display offers easy-to-read, at-a-glance information, connecting to the internet via an integrated 4G SIM card, and updating over the air rather than via your home network.We received the untethered version for our review, which isn’t as convenient but has the same features as the tethered version, bar the built-in cable. On the supply circuit, a dedicated 30mA Type A RCD is required but a Type B RCD is not required as it has an integral 6mA DC leakage detection built in. The best home EV chargers you can buy in 2023 1. Pod Point Solo 3: The best home charger for public network integration