EVIQO EVIPOWER GEN 2 Residence EV Charging Station Evaluate — Plus Video

Final Up to date on: twentieth June 2025, 02:58 am

We just lately acquired an EVIQO Stage 2 house charging station. As lots of you understand, I’ve solely had Stage 1 charging by way of a traditional 120V electrical energy outlet for the previous few years (and no house charging earlier than that). I’ve been completely satisfied to have solely that in order that I can level out to folks that you just don’t want any additional energy capability or {hardware} to have an electrical car. I feel that most individuals don’t understand this. Nevertheless, there’s little doubt about it — a Stage 2 house EV charging station is far more handy. So, after we bought the prospect to overview an EVIQO EVIPOWER GEN 2 charging station, I made a decision to lastly have a 240V outlet put into my storage as a way to hook this up.

Collectively, we’ve got reviewed quite a few EV charging stations over time, and I’ve used a wide range of stations within the US and Europe. In all honesty, I love the EVIPOWER GEN 2 and couldn’t actually ask for extra.

Beginning with the fundamentals, it’s bought a brilliant glossy, cool, and seemingly sturdy design. It doesn’t have an excessive amount of additional on it, nevertheless it seems trendy and excessive tech. I can’t see any doubtless breaking factors or sturdiness issues.

Attending to the fancier components, I’ve to begin with the sunshine. The colourful lights are actually enjoyable and funky. Moreover, they convey to you what the charger is doing — if it’s able to cost, if it’s charging, if it was charging and is now finished charging. Actually, although, it simply seems cool.

When you get to utilizing it, properly, it’s tremendous easy. You plug in and it will get to work charging. Past that fundamental possibility, although …

Utilizing the EVIQO app, you possibly can schedule charging — on a routine or in one-off classes. That is particularly helpful for scheduling your charging to reap the benefits of low electrical energy charges. Many utility districts have time-of-use (TOU) pricing, they usually’re usually in the midst of the night time. So, you possibly can set a schedule to simply cost at these instances. Then, once you get house, you possibly can merely plug in and go away the charging to the intelligence of the EVIQO system.

There’s additionally all of the enjoyable monitoring stuff you are able to do on the app. You may view the charging period, power use (kWh), and estimated value for any particular person classes. Inspecting the info additional, you possibly can take a look at the totals for these issues throughout one week, one month, 3 months, or all time. Dwell, you may as well view voltage, energy (kW), and amperage, and you may modify the amperage in the event you’d like.

Moreover, you may get notifications of assorted types — when charging begins, when it finishes, and for numerous particulars of the charging session.

As I stated, there’s not likely the rest I can suppose to ask from it, and every part appears to work very properly. The person interface on the app is properly designed and straightforward to make use of.

Being a Stage 2 charging station, the EVIPOWER GEN 2 costs up my Tesla Mannequin 3 fairly rapidly — a lot faster than the Stage 1 charging system from Tesla that I used to be used to.

Oh yeah, and so far as putting in the charging station, that was tremendous simple. Directions come within the field, however you mainly drill holes within the wall the place you wish to cling the unit (someplace close to a 240V outlet in fact) and likewise drill holes for the spot you need the connector holder. Then you definitely cling them on the wall, plug the charger right into a 240V outlet, they usually’re prepared to be used.

The enter cable is 3.1 ft lengthy, the longest in the marketplace. The output cable is 25 ft lengthy, the longest legally permitted.

Total, I like the EVIQO EVIPOWER GEN 2 charging station. I like the design and look of the station, particularly when the lights are off within the storage and it’s glowing like Iron Man’s coronary heart, and I additionally love the app design and value. I can’t even take into consideration one thing to complain about. Possibly that the cable is kind of thick and heavy, however that must be anticipated for this type of energy, and it’s tremendous simple to make use of anyway — even my younger daughters don’t have an issue with it.

You may be taught far more about it within the video overview beneath.

The EVIQO EVIPOWER GEN 2 was offered to us by EVIQO freed from cost, however all opinions are 100% real and my very own.