There are roughly forty serious home chargers on sale in the UK in 2026, and a great many less-serious ones. Our buying team has spent the last three months living with every one of them: in our own driveways, on our own cars, paying our own electricity bills. This is the result.
A few rules before we start. We will not be ranking products we wouldn't install in our own homes. We have no commercial relationship with any manufacturer beyond stocking their products, and our buying decisions are made before any commercial conversation begins. Where we say a product is the best, we mean it on the merits.
We will not be ranking products we wouldn't install in our own homes. Full stop.
The home charging market is in a strange place. Hardware has largely converged: nearly every wallbox now offers 7.4 kW single-phase or 22 kW three-phase, smart-tariff sync, and an app. The differences are in the details: software quality, support response times, build durability, and how gracefully the product ages over a five-year ownership period.
The overall winner: Andersen A2
After nearly a hundred installations between us, the Andersen A2 remains our top recommendation for households that can stretch to it. The hidden-cable design is genuinely clever rather than gimmicky, the eleven hand-finished panel options mean the unit doesn't look like industrial kit on the side of your house, and the manufacturer warranty is among the strongest in the category.
It is, however, expensive. At £1,199 it is twice the price of the best budget unit we tested, and it is not the smartest charger you can buy. If you live on a smart tariff and care most about saving money on electricity, you can probably do better. If you care about a charger that will look right on your house in 2036, this is the answer.
The smart-tariff specialist: Ohme Home Pro
If you charge on Octopus Intelligent or any of the other UK smart tariffs, the Ohme Home Pro is the unit to beat. Its tariff integration is more comprehensive than any competitor we tested. The on-unit OLED display is genuinely useful (you can see exactly what the charger is doing without reaching for your phone), and at £799 it sits in a sensible part of the market.
Build quality is good rather than exceptional. The plastics are functional, the cable is fine. The app is workmanlike. None of this matters very much when you are saving £400 a year on electricity.
If you charge on a smart tariff, the Ohme Home Pro is the unit to beat. Full stop.
The honourable mentions
The myenergi Zappi remains the right answer for households with solar panels: its eco-mode diversion is unmatched, and its integration with the wider myenergi ecosystem is genuinely useful. The Easee One is the right answer for multi-car households thanks to its dynamic load balancing across up to three units. The Wallbox Pulsar Plus is the right answer if you want a 22 kW unit and you don't want it dominating the wall.
And the one we wouldn't recommend at any price? We will keep our counsel publicly, but if you ring our help desk we will tell you privately. We have removed it from our shelves and we will not be putting it back.
Jake Wardle, Founder
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