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Just bought my first Electric Vehicle (EV) - Which home charger is best to use with a Tesla?

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October 12, 2021
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Hi everyone,

Just recently bought my first electric car. I’m look at having a home charging port installed.

I’m currently looking at the Easee One (https://proev.co.uk/easee-one) & The Zappi (https://proev.co.uk/myenergi-zappi).

Is there any advantage of using one over the other? The car is a Tesla if that helps.

Thank you,

Sam

Best answer by Jess_OVO

Updated on 21/01/26 by Ben_OVO

Hi @ZapMyBrain and Welcome to the OVO online community!

Great first question this one - we love hearing from new EV members and you’ve come to the perfect place to get some great first hand advice from other EV owners.

If you haven’t already, we’d really recommend checking out the exclusive offers we have on EV smart chargers over here. The chargers we install are compatible with our EV package, Charge Anytime.

@tesla_model_3, any charger recommendations for a new member of the Tesla club? :red_car:

Guys!

I didn’t expect the replies and help to be this good! Thank you so much for this. From what you guys have said, I’m leaning towards the Zappi now. I spoke to the people at https://proev.co.uk today about the Zappi charger, I brought up everything you guys have said (points 1 - 8 Tim) and they pretty much said the same, the Zappi would be recommended over the Easee. They did mention the Hypervolt Home 2.0, but to save any confusion (as I’m clearly a layman with this!), I said let’s go with the Zappi if that’s what’s going to sort the Tesla out.

Thank you so much everyone!

Thanks

Sam

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tesla_model_3

Newcomer

I love it when actual people share insight into their charging preferences. Advice you can trust, @ZapMyBrain! Hope it helps :)

@tesla_model_3 my understanding from your thread was the following:

Why does the charger go up to only 31 A even in boost mode (i.e. why does it never report beyond 32A) - The charger will be limited to 30.2A after it connects to Kaluza when charging without boost. When boosting it will go to 32A. You might only see 31A if the CT clamp on the charger is miscalibrated slightly.

and

As for CT Clamp calibration, I’ve been advised that:

‘If the consumption figures appear to be incorrect by a certain factor or erratic then the house CT clamp may need to be re-calibrated.

Follow these steps to ensure the SC can re-calibrate.

Ensure an EV is available with SoC below 80% and it is able to accept charge
Ensure a RBT is set for the next morning
Disconnect the SC from the EV
Turn the SC off at the RCD for 30 minutes
Turn the SC back on and allow to boot up for 10 minutes
Plug the SC into the EV and leave it alone
CUSTOMER MUST NOT BOOST
SC will recalibrate before the RBT that has been set

What’s the latest with this?

Tried that previously and again recently but still maxed out at 31A rather than the 32A, confirmed by the car and the app.

Not a major issue just rather annoying

Jess_OVO

OVO Staff

Tried that previously and again recently but still maxed out at 31A rather than the 32A, confirmed by the car and the app.

Not a major issue just rather annoying

Sorry to hear those trouble-shooting steps didn’t resolve the issue with your charger, @tesla_model_3 - I’ve made sure to feed this one back to the team to check whether there’s any further actions we could suggest.

Bear with us as we’ll pop back with any further updates. :thumbsup:

k1ms

Newcomer

I like the podpoint charger because it has timer that can be set via app. My podpoint is only set to charge from 01:00 to 08:00 on overnight electricity. If you have large solar bank the the Zappy would be better. Sorry Ovo one well know supplier has 4 hours at £0.05 a Kwh.

Kim

Jess_OVO

OVO Staff

Some great EV charger tips there, @k1ms - Is that a shiny new ‘EV volunteer’ badge I notice there? (this is awarded to community members who offer tip-top EV advice and knowledge sharing) so Well Done!

Worth popping a quick link to our exclusive EV charging rate as part of the OVO Drive + Anytime plan which sounds like it might compete well with other suppliers over-night charging rate offers.

Had a chance to check out the other EV chargers our community members recommend over here yet?:

NathanJT

Newcomer

We’ve just joined OVO with the intention of adding Charge Anytime to our account. A smart meter is being fitted this week and I just wondered if anyone else had any experience with this set up?

I realise that the billing option requires OVO to link to our Tesla account as opposed to the charger itself, but is that possible when we have two cars? In Tesla world, the cars are owned by two different accounts and usage of them is shared cross account, however the charger resides on my account, whilst it will be my wife that will mainly be using the home charger for her car.

I presume it’s my account (which is associated with the charger) that needs to be paired with OVO?