IQ EV Charger 2

Enphase's first proper home charger for Britain, at £779 — and the only one of the twenty-one here that assumes you already own the solar it was built to talk to. The single-phase 7.4kW model launched across fourteen European markets in March 2025; a price cut that same month brought it down from near four figures to where it sits now, which is still dear for what is, in isolation, a 7.4kW tethered unit with a long cable and no intelligent-tariff API.

The point is that it isn't in isolation. If your roof already carries Enphase IQ microinverters and an IQ Battery, the charger becomes a fourth node on the same Enphase App: panels, battery, grid import, car, one screen, one set of rules. AI-led source selection decides whether the car should be drinking from the sun, the battery or a cheap grid slot, and it will ramp the car up from as little as 1.38 kW of surplus PV in 1A steps — a genuinely fine-grained solar chase. Without the rest of the Enphase stack, you are paying for an ecosystem you haven't joined.

Best for: Households already running an Enphase solar and battery system.

Installation

A 370 × 250 × 118 mm unit, 11 kg with the 7.5-metre Type 2 cable — one of the longer cables on this list, matched only by the Tesla Wall Connector. IP55 enclosure, IK10 impact rating, operating range -40°C to +55°C. Integrated PEN fault protection and a built-in ±6 mA RDC-DD, which means the installer adds only a Type A RCBO at the consumer unit rather than the more expensive Type B sometimes asked for by DNOs. No mounting bracket required; rear or bottom cable entry. Dual wired-and-wireless connectivity (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, RS-485, CAN). For full ecosystem behaviour you need an Enphase IQ Gateway on the property — homes already running Enphase solar will have one. Standalone installations skip that step but also skip the reason to buy this charger. See our home charger installation guide.

Tariff compatibility

Manual scheduling in the Enphase App, which works cleanly on fixed two-rate tariffs — Octopus Go, OVO Charge Anytime, British Gas Electric Drivers. As of April 2026 there is no direct API handshake with Intelligent Octopus Go or Octopus Agile: Enphase's January 2025 Octopus partnership integrates IQ solar and battery with Intelligent Octopus Flux, but that agreement doesn't extend to the EV charger. For half-hourly tariff chasing, the Ohme Home Pro still leads. Where Enphase earns its keep is solar-surplus routing inside a whole-home energy plan — read the tariff guide and the solar EV charger comparison together before deciding.

Price

OZEV approval for this exact model isn't confirmed on the current eligible-chargepoint list at the time of writing — Enphase describe the unit as UK Smart Charging compliant, which is the prerequisite for listing, but until it appears by name on the government list, treat the £500 grant as unavailable and check with an installer before committing.

Against the field

Against the Zappi GLO, which is this site's solar-integration benchmark: Zappi wins on price, on the breadth of solar and battery brands it will talk to, and on its three-mode solar diversion (ECO, ECO+, FAST) that works without any proprietary house ecosystem. Enphase only catches up — and then overtakes — if you already own Enphase panels and battery, at which point the single-app experience and tighter battery-to-car co-ordination become the real argument. The EcoFlow PowerPulse 2 plays a similar ecosystem card for EcoFlow solar owners. Against the Ohme Home Pro, Enphase loses on intelligent-tariff automation and costs more; it wins if solar, battery and car need to co-operate under one roof. A DC IQ Bidirectional Charger, a separate product due for volume production in Q4 2026, is where Enphase's V2H and V2G story actually lives — this AC unit is hardware-ready for future bidirectional AC but is not that product.