Easee One Review: The Tiny Charger That Will Not Talk to Octopus
The Easee One is about the size of a hardback book and weighs 1.5 kg, which makes it one of the smallest 7.4 kW chargers you can put on a UK wall. It is a socketed unit whose cable you can lock in from the app, it has PEN-fault protection built in, and it costs about £490 on its own or £918 fitted. What it does not do is plug into Intelligent Octopus Go.
What the three sources share
This page draws on Electrifying.com, whose editorial consultant reviewed the Easee One in July 2025; Smart Home Charge, a national installer that sells and fits it and updated its review in August 2026; and Trustpilot, where Easee as a company has between 1,407 and 1,611 reviews depending on which page you open. On the charger itself they mostly agree.
Three points recur. It is small and neat, with swappable coloured faceplates and no screen, just a strip of status lights. The cable trick is the selling point: it is a Type 2 socket, but the app can lock a cable in permanently so it behaves like a tethered charger. Smart Home Charge calls that “the killer feature”. Electrifying is cooler on it, because you then need a hook to store the lead. Smart tariffs are the weak spot: both reviewers say there is no integration with Intelligent Octopus Go or OVO Charge Anytime, and Octopus's own pages do not name Easee.
Two caveats. Easee's other chargers (the Home and Charge, not the One) were banned from sale in Sweden in 2023 over how their built-in earth-leakage protection worked. Sweden closed the case in October 2025, and a 2023 report said the UK had raised no such concern, but read the section below before you buy. And the Trustpilot reviews are mostly Scandinavian, with Easee not inviting customers, so they say little about UK installs.
The buying decision is about your tariff. If you are on a plain two-rate tariff such as Octopus Go, and you want a small, well-built box that can be tethered or not, the Easee One is good value. If Intelligent Octopus Go through the charger is the plan, buy something that supports it.
The three reviews this summary is built from
- Electrifying.comEditorial review by Tom Barnard, 28 July 2025. No score; likes the style, dislikes the lack of tariff links.
- Smart Home ChargeInstaller review by Danny Morgan, updated 21 August 2026. Five category scores, four of them 5/5. Sells and fits it.
- Trustpilot4.1/5 from 1,611 reviews of Easee on one page, 738 in a year; 1,407 on another. Not invited, mostly Nordic.
Before the review: the Swedish RCD case, and where the UK stands
In March 2023 Sweden's electrical safety authority, Elsäkerhetsverket, banned sales of the Easee Home and Easee Charge. It said the chargers had no conventional residual current device despite the paperwork claiming one: Easee used sensors and software that check at the start of each charge and every 24 hours, and the authority judged that this “may not trip when it should”. The Netherlands followed with a temporary ban in April 2023 and Easee paused its own sales in Austria. Easee appealed and said the problem was “about the paper, not the product”. On 2 October 2025 electrive reported that the Swedish authority had closed its supervision of Easee.
None of the reports we read mention the Easee One, which is a different, UK-specific product. A May 2023 electrive report said the UK had not raised such safety concerns, because the EU notification process does not cover it. Easee's UK product sheet says the One has an integrated RCD (30 mA AC and 6 mA DC), and its installation guide says a Type A device can be used for the circuit “if required by the installation method”, with the upstream decision left to local wiring rules. Three UK sellers describe the protection as “Type B RCD”. In practice, your installer decides what protection goes in the consumer unit. Ask what they are fitting.
The numbers that matter
| Spec | Figure | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Easee One, UK part 10523, single-phase. Easee says it is sold only in Norway, France, the UK and Ireland | Easee UK page and product sheet |
| Power | 1.4 to 7.4 kW (6 to 32 A), fully dynamic | Easee product sheet |
| Tethered or untethered | Type 2 socket; the app can lock a cable in permanently. Easee sells one socketed model. EV Chargers Installation Ltd describes separate tethered and untethered versions with a 5 to 6 m lead | Sources disagree on wording; check what your quote includes |
| Size (H × W × D) | 256 × 193 × 106 mm; fixing holes 160 × 125 mm apart | Easee product sheet and UK guide agree |
| Weight | 1.5 kg | Easee, TOB International and Smart Home Charge agree |
| Weather and impact | IP54, IK10; −30°C to +40°C | Easee product sheet |
| PEN-fault protection | Built in (BS 7671:2018/A1:2020), no earth rod. Active only when wired as TN-C-S | Easee product sheet and UK installation guide |
| Earth leakage | Integrated RCD, 30 mA AC and 6 mA DC, says Easee. “Type B RCD”, say TOB International, BEW Direct and Eco Wizard | Both printed; ask your installer |
| Connectivity | Built-in eSIM (LTE Cat M1) with free lifetime data, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, OCPP 1.6, RFID. Electrifying says there is no Wi-Fi option | Easee product sheet; Electrifying disagrees on Wi-Fi |
| Load balancing | Up to three units on one fuse; whole-home balancing needs the Easee Equalizer | Easee |
| Solar | Solar and Grid + Solar modes through the Easee Equalizer (£224 at Smart Home Charge); solar mode needs at least 1.4 kW of surplus | Smart Home Charge; Easee lists “solar charging support” |
| Intelligent Octopus Go | Not supported through the charger, say Electrifying and Smart Home Charge. Octopus's FAQ and IOG pages do not name Easee | Checked 16 October 2026 |
| Warranty | 3 years (UK) | Easee; two retailers agree |
| Charger-only price | £490.50 at Eco Wizard (in stock); £552 at TOB International (back-order); £489 at Smart Home Charge | Checked 16 October 2026. Easee's UK page shows no RRP |
| Fitted price | £918 at Smart Home Charge; from £929 ex VAT at EV Chargers Installation Ltd (about £1,115 with VAT, our sum); £490.50 plus a £499 standard install at Eco Wizard (£989.50, our sum) | Checked 16 October 2026 |
| Grant | Up to £500 (75% of cost) for flat owners and renters with private off-street parking, to 31 March 2027; not for people who own their house. The charger must be on OZEV's approved list | GOV.UK. We did not find the Easee One on that list |
Electrifying.com
Who they are: Tom Barnard is listed on Electrifying's team page as an Editorial Consultant who spent a decade as a motoring journalist, mainly at Auto Express, then worked in PR for Vauxhall, Hyundai, Nissan and Mitsubishi, and has driven an electric car since 2012. That is a long view of EV ownership, but the page describes no charger-testing method, so read his verdict as informed opinion.
Barnard likes the “unusual Scandinavian design” and the five coloured faceplates, the app control with off-peak scheduling, and the RFID “Keys” that let you control who can charge, which he thinks could suit a shared car park. He prices it at £489 plus installation, which still matches the charger-only prices we found this week.
His reservations are practical. There is no screen, only a light. Because it is a socket, most owners will leave a lead locked into it, which he says ends up “slightly spoiling its appeal and sleek design”, and you need a hook to hang the cable. Solar charging needs an extra gadget. And there is no integration with EV tariffs such as OVO Charge Anytime or Intelligent Octopus. He also says there is no Wi-Fi option and it relies on the built-in mobile data, which Easee's own product sheet contradicts: it lists 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi alongside the eSIM. Either way, the free lifetime mobile connection is a plus if your router is a long way from the drive.
Watch: Easee One vs Ohme Home Pro - Which is the better home charger?
A side-by-side comparison with the Ohme Home Pro, the charger most often recommended for Intelligent Octopus Go. Watch it with Electrifying's tariff point in mind.
Watch on YouTube ↗ Independent YouTube video, not made by or for Shopbam.Who they are: Electrifying.com is a UK electric-car media site and marketplace founded in 2020 by journalist and presenter Ginny Buckley; its reviewers have long motoring careers, but its charger pages describe no test method and it earns commission as a credit broker, so read them as informed opinion rather than measured tests.
Smart Home Charge
Who they are: We could not find a published profile for Danny Morgan; the review was chosen because it comes from a firm that fits these chargers and gives fitted prices and day-to-day use detail no editorial review has.
This is the most positive source and also the least independent, because Smart Home Charge sells the charger at £489, or £918 fitted. It calls the Easee One “one of the most solid home chargers on the market right now” and says it has been “the best overall experience when it comes to general use and smart charging” of the chargers it uses. The tethered-or-untethered switch is “the killer feature”, and the reviewer adds load balancing for up to three units on one circuit and the open-PEN protection that removes the need for an earth rod.
The criticisms are specific. The looks are basic. Solar needs the separate Equalizer at £224 extra, with a Solar mode that needs at least 1.4 kW of surplus. The app accepts only one electricity price, so the cost tracking is wrong on any off-peak tariff, which the reviewer calls “a bit of an oversight”. He had one glitch, an incorrect charge rate on screen, cleared by resetting the unit. And the lack of smart tariff support “might be a dealbreaker” for anyone wanting Intelligent Octopus Go or OVO Charge Anytime.
Watch: Easee One Charger Install & Review
An install-and-review film of this exact model. It shows how small the unit is on the wall and what the fitting involves, which is the part the installer review is best placed to judge.
Watch on YouTube ↗ Independent YouTube video, not made by or for Shopbam.Who they are: Smart Home Charge, a trading name of Response EPR Ltd, describes itself as a nationwide installer of home EV chargepoints that sells and fits a range of chargers; its reviews carry useful fitting detail but it sells what it reviews, so discount its verdicts accordingly.
Trustpilot
These are reviews of Easee as a company across all its chargers, not of the One, and Trustpilot warns that Easee has not invited customers so “reviews may not be representative”. Easee replies to between 11% and 30% of negative reviews depending on the page, far below the near-total reply rates of some UK rivals. The two Trustpilot domains gave us different totals and scores for the same company, so we print both. Most reviewers on the pages we read are in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, where Easee chargers are far more common; only one was marked as British.
The good reviews are short: a UK owner says it has worked “perfect all the time”, a Danish owner had a faulty LED replaced at no cost, and several praise integration with Tibber, a Nordic energy supplier. The bad ones are about software. One owner says charging will not restart after the grid has throttled it; another that the charger has to be restarted before it will charge; a third that it starts and stops “with no explanation”. A one-star review calls it “very very poor and could be dangerous” without explaining why. Only one, a one-star review saying “I would never again get easee one charger”, seems to refer to the One, so weigh the rest as a picture of Easee's software and support rather than of this box.
Watch: Install EASEE ONE electric vehicle charge point
An installation film of the One. Useful alongside owner reviews, because several complaints are about setup and restarts rather than hardware.
Watch on YouTube ↗ Independent YouTube video, not made by or for Shopbam.Who they are: Trustpilot is an open review platform where anyone can review a business about a genuine experience, invited or unprompted; it screens reviews automatically, removed 7.8 million fakes in 2025 and is funded by business subscriptions, so read it for service, not products.
Intelligent Octopus Go: the deciding question
Octopus's Intelligent Go FAQ and landing page do not list Easee among supported chargers; the landing page names Andersen as the latest addition and sends you to an eligibility checker. Both reviewers say the same from the other side: Electrifying says there is no integration with EV-specific tariffs, and Smart Home Charge says there is no smart tariff support. Easee's UK page says its Smart Charging works with “a range of energy tariffs” in the UK and Ireland, and that some solutions “may incur third-party integrator costs”, but it names none.
Our reading: if your car is on Octopus's compatible list, Intelligent Octopus Go may be able to control charging through the car, with the Easee One just supplying power. Check that with Octopus before you order. If your car is not on the list, the Easee One will not fill the gap. A simple timed two-rate tariff works fine with its scheduler, though the app's single-price cost tracking will be wrong.
Running cost, roughly
Our sum, not a source's: at the Ofgem cap rate of 26.32p/kWh for October 2026, an hour at the full 7.4 kW costs about £1.95, and putting 40 kWh into a car costs about £10.53 before charging losses. An overnight rate is where any home charger earns its keep, so check your supplier's current off-peak price; we have not quoted one.
Good points and drawbacks
In its favour
- Small and light: 256 × 193 × 106 mm and 1.5 kg.
- Socket or tethered at the tap of an app, with a locked cable.
- PEN-fault protection built in, so no earth rod on a TN-C-S supply.
- Free lifetime mobile data via eSIM, so it does not depend on your Wi-Fi reaching the drive.
- Load balancing for up to three units on one fuse; RFID access control.
- Competitive price: about £490 alone, £918 fitted at Smart Home Charge.
Against it
- No Intelligent Octopus Go or OVO Charge Anytime integration; Octopus does not list it.
- Solar needs the Equalizer, about £224 more.
- No screen, and the app's cost tracking takes only one electricity price.
- A locked-in lead needs a hook, and spoils the neat look.
- The Easee brand carries the 2023 Swedish RCD case, though it concerned other models.
- Trustpilot owners report restart and software glitches, and Easee replies to few complaints.
Is it right for your driveway?
A good fit if you want a compact, well-made charger for a small wall or a porch, you like the option of tethering later without buying a new unit, your Wi-Fi does not reach the drive, or you have two or three EVs to share one supply. On a plain time-of-use tariff it is one of the better-value boxes you can have fitted.
Pass on it if Intelligent Octopus Go through the charger is why you are buying. The Ohme Home Pro is built around Octopus, and the Hypervolt Home 3 Pro is the other common pick. If you want solar diversion without an add-on box, read our myenergi zappi review, and if you want one fixed fitted price from the biggest UK installer, the Pod Point Solo 3S. If you rent, or own a flat, with private parking, ask your installer whether the Easee One qualifies for the £500 grant before anything is fitted.
Gaps in the evidence
- The videos. All three were confirmed by search listing, not by opening them, because YouTube does not load from our research setup. None of the listings named the channel.
- OZEV approval. We were unable to find the Easee One on OZEV's approved chargepoint list, so grant eligibility needs confirming with your installer.
- Which RCD it really has. Easee says an integrated 30 mA AC and 6 mA DC RCD; three sellers say Type B. It was not possible to read an independent UK test of how it trips.
- The UK regulator's current view. The only UK statement we found is a 2023 trade report that the UK had raised no concerns. We have no way to confirm whether OPSS has looked at Easee since.
- Wi-Fi. Easee's product sheet lists Wi-Fi; Electrifying says there is no Wi-Fi option.
- Tethered versions. Easee sells one socketed model with a cable lock; EV Chargers Installation Ltd describes tethered and untethered versions with a 5 to 6 m lead. Check what cable your quote includes.
- What a standard installation covers at Smart Home Charge, Eco Wizard or EV Chargers Installation Ltd. None of the pages itemise it.
- The Trustpilot figures. 4.1 from 1,611 on the UK domain, 1,407 and a 4.3 or 4.5 score on the main domain. Only one review we read appeared to name the Easee One, and only one reviewer was marked as British.
- A hands-on editorial test. Electrifying's review does not say it was fitted at home, and we found no Which? result.
- An Easee UK RRP. Easee's UK page shows no price, so the prices here are from sellers.
Sources last checked 16 October 2026. Prices, tariff support and grant rules change often. Check all three with your installer and energy supplier before you order.