Home EV charger specs, comparisons, and EV compatibility

386 ENERGY STAR certified home chargers across 156 brands — every spec traced to its EPA certification record.

Coverage
386 chargers · 156 brands · 29 vehicles
Data snapshot

Methodology — every formula, and what this data cannot tell you.

Will your panel carry it?

Enter your service size and existing loads; the panel check returns the largest charger your service supports and the breaker it needs — charger amps × 1.25, rounded up, because the NEC treats charging as a continuous load.

Also: how circuit sizing works

Check my panel

Output power, connector type, cable length and metered standby draw, plus which EVs each charger actually works with. On top of the certification data we compute what the spec sheet leaves out: the real charge rate your car will accept, empty-to-full time, range per charging hour, and the breaker the National Electrical Code requires.

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Lowest standby power draw

What the unit burns with no car attached, measured under the ENERGY STAR test procedure. A 3 W difference is about 26 kWh a year.

# Model Standby Max output Cable
1 Lite-On Technology Corp Charging Station 0.1 W 19.2 kW 23 ft
2 Tesla Mobile Connector 0.43 W 7.68 kW 19 ft
3 Schumacher SEV1670 0.69 W 1.92 kW 20 ft
4 TOPBAND TB-AC240US 0.72 W 9.6 kW 17 ft
5 Pando Electric Pando 001 Smart Outlet 0.75 W 9.6 kW
6 Grizzl-E Classic 0.8 W 9.6 kW 24 ft
7 EVFastCharge / MOTEN EVFC MTL-AC-EV48 0.83 W 11.52 kW 25 ft
8 Lectron LECHG14-50-40ABLKUS 0.83 W 9.6 kW 16 ft

Standby draw is a certified test figure, not a field measurement — see the standby power cost guide for what it means on a bill.

Best charger for your EV

Matched to each car's onboard AC limit and charge port, with the charge-time math done: min(charger kW, vehicle kW) sets the real rate.

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Buying and installation guides

Guides are written and checked by a person against the dataset, the cited code, or manufacturer documentation — see the editorial policy. Everything above them on this page is generated from the dataset.

New to home charging? Start with the EV charging glossarykW vs amps, NACS adapters, and breaker sizing in plain English.