Easee One review

The Easee One is a small, rugged 7.4kW charger with built-in PEN protection, open standards and a mobile-data backup. It suits owners who want a cheap, tidy unit, a lockable cable or two chargers sharing one circuit. The weak points are Intelligent Octopus Go (IOG) support, which is still in testing, and an after-sales record that owners rate badly.

Price and what’s included

Easee’s UK configurator sells the One from £899 with a standard installation by its partner Qvanta. That price covers an untethered unit in black, mounting, up to 10m of cable run, one wall penetration, a 32A fuse and up to 50km of travel. A charging cable is not included. In the configurator a tethered 5m cable adds £180, a 7.5m cable adds £226 and a colour cover adds £37.20. What Car? quotes £1,099 for a typical installation.

The charger alone is £449 at Qvanta, with other retailers listing more (below). Easee rates its warranty at three years. Our installation cost guide explains how to compare quotes.

Where to buy (prices seen on 10 October 2026, and they can change):

• Easee UK configurator (installed by Qvanta): From £899 including standard installation
• Qvanta: £449 charger only, £899 installed
• Smart Home Charge: £489 charger only; installed from £918; listed by Easee as a trusted UK installer
• ON-EV: £480 inc VAT, in stock
• Amazon UK: £519, third-party seller

Smart features and tariffs

The Easee app has scheduling, Bluetooth local control, a local Wi-Fi interface and an open API. The charger supports OCPP 1.6J, which few rivals here confirm and means it can be moved to another provider’s back office. It has Wi-Fi, an LTE-M eSIM for backup when Wi-Fi drops, an RFID reader and a built-in energy meter (accurate to plus or minus 2%).

On tariffs, Easee supports fixed and time-of-use rates and some smart tariffs such as Octopus Agile through its own smart charging. For IOG, Octopus lists the integration as live but in testing, and Easee says IOG and OVO Charge Anytime are not fully supported. You must switch off Easee’s schedule. See our Intelligent Octopus Go explainer for the options.

Solar and load balancing are where the extras mount up. Solar surplus charging and whole-house balancing need the Equalizer, at £129.99. UK homes without a compatible smart-meter port need a meter kit with a CT clamp. The solar modes are “Surplus only” or “Limited grid usage”, and they need at least 6A of surplus to start. Without the Equalizer, up to three Easee chargers can share one circuit via Easee Link, even offline, which suits two-EV homes. Our CT clamp guide explains the options.

Installation and safety

The One has integrated open-PEN protection to BS 7671:2018/A1:2020, tested by the Power Networks Demonstration Centre, so an earth rod is not normally needed. See our PEN fault and earthing guide for background. It also has a Type A 30mA RCD with 6mA DC detection. Easee’s installer guide says an external RCD is still required unless the circuit uses only Class II components and nothing else is on it. Several UK retailers describe a “Type B RCD”, which conflicts with Easee’s own documents.

It is IP54 and IK10, and tiny: 256 x 193 x 106mm and 1.5kg. Easee’s UK range has just this one 7.4kW model; the 22kW Charge and Charge Max are separate products. In May 2026 the Office for Product Safety and Standards published a low-risk report (2604-0019) on a small quantity of Easee One backplates with incorrect labelling.

What owners report

Easee’s owner record has slipped. In the What Car? survey (brand-level, published on a page sponsored by Pod), Easee fell from the top brand in 2024 to joint fifth, scoring 3 out of 5. Owners rated installation highly (96%) and 15% reported faults, but 37% said their problems were never fixed and some units charged below 7.4kW. A staff tester praised the compact unit, angled plug and lockable cable and reported a year without faults.

Auto Express’s Driver Power 2024 ranked Easee 2nd of 8 brands, first for build quality and second for style, but seventh of eight for reliability. Two outages in June 2026 are logged on Easee’s status page: about nine hours of cellular problems on 3 June and a partial cloud, API and app outage of around five hours on 18 June. A deal reported on 1 June 2026 has Brodrene Jensen acquiring 100% of Easee, financed by AWC, which is expected to become majority owner once approvals are granted. Easee says it will remain independent.

How it compares

The Ohme ePod is the main untethered rival at a similar fitted price. It has proper IOG integration and 4G, but no OCPP and a lower impact rating. The Wallbox Pulsar Max offers a five-year warranty and a three-phase option, but needs an extra meter for solar.

Our verdict

We score the Easee One 6.5 out of 10. Safety (9.3) is the highest in our set, flexibility (8.0) is second only to Wallbox, and its fitted price scores 7.1. It loses ground on smart features (6.0) because IOG is in testing, on reliability (5.9) and on warranty (4.3). Buy it if you want OCPP, two chargers on one circuit or a tidy lockable-cable design, and you are not relying on IOG. If you are on IOG, choose an Ohme. See the best home EV chargers roundup for the full ranking.