Guides & studies
No affiliate roundups, no filler. Data, measurements and plain answers from people who sell nothing but cables.
EV Charging Guides
The £20 decision that makes your EV cable last across cars, chargers, and standards, 22kW headroom, NACS in the UK, and what V2L means for your cable.
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Granny Chargers
A granny charger plugs your EV into a standard 13A socket. Here's how Mode 2 cables work, how fast they charge, and t...
Connector Types
CHAdeMO is a DC rapid-charging standard on older UK EVs. Learn which cars use it, why there's no cable to buy, and wh...
Comparisons
CCS and Type 2 are not two competing standards. They are two halves of the same system: AC for everyday charging, DC ...
Connector Types
A Type 1 cable uses the SAE J1772 standard, five pins, single-phase, legacy in the UK. Here's which cars need one and...
Connector Types
A Type 2 cable is the UK and European standard for AC charging, seven pins, defined in IEC 62196-2, fits every post-2...
Comparisons
Two connector types, one decision. This comparison covers pin count, standards, UK car compatibility, and the single-...
Buying Guides
Nearly every EV sold new in the UK uses the same connector. But there are still four decisions to get right. This gui...
Buying Guides
Our buyers spent three months living with every major UK wallbox. Here's the definitive ranking: and the one we would...
Field Notes
When we set out to design the Arc Wallbox, the brief was almost embarrassingly simple: a customer should be able to f...
Field Notes
Our team took a winter expedition north of the Arctic Circle, stress-testing portable chargers in -20°C. Here's what ...
Charging Speed & Specs
Pushing 500 amps through a hand-held connector is, on paper, an unreasonable thing to ask a piece of consumer hardwar...
Field Notes
Bidirectional charging is finally arriving in the UK. We argue it changes everything about what a wallbox is for.
