Easee One vs EcoFlow PowerPulse 2: the £140 ecosystem question

A £405 wall box against a £545 ecosystem hub

These two look like neighbours on a spec sheet — both untethered, both Type 2, both with apps and scheduling. They are not competing for the same buyer. The Easee One is £405 and exists to put a clean, competent charger on your wall for as little money as possible. The EcoFlow PowerPulse 2 is £545 and exists to sit inside an EcoFlow home energy system.

The shortest version:

• Easee One — £405, OZEV-approved, 1.5kg, integrated protection that trims install labour. The default if you just want to charge a Tesla.
• EcoFlow PowerPulse 2 — £545, three-phase capable, Solar Mode, LCD, RFID. The default if you already own EcoFlow's PowerOcean battery.

What the EcoFlow's extra £140 is actually buying

Strip away the marketing and the PowerPulse 2's premium over the Easee pays for three things: three-phase capability, an on-unit LCD, and integration with EcoFlow's solar and battery stack. Three-phase is irrelevant in most UK homes — the supply isn't there. The LCD is nice but not £140 nice. That leaves the ecosystem play, and this is where the charger either justifies itself completely or not at all.

If your loft or garden houses an EcoFlow PowerOcean battery and EcoFlow panels, running the charger through the same app means solar surplus, house load, battery state and car charging all arbitrate against each other in one place. That is a real convenience, and no amount of clever scheduling on a standalone charger replicates it. If you don't own that kit and aren't about to, you are paying £140 for features that will never switch on.

There are also two genuine cautions. EcoFlow is new to UK wall chargers — the brand is proven in portable power stations, less so on the side of a house for ten years. And OZEV approval isn't confirmed, which means the £500 grant (renters and flat owners only, at the current figure) may not apply. The Easee One is OZEV-approved; for grant-eligible buyers, the £500 covers its £405 unit price outright and chips into the install labour too.

Where the Easee earns its place

£405 is the lowest price on this site for a mainstream, OZEV-approved charger, and Easee hasn't got there by cutting the things that matter. Type B RCD and open-PEN detection are built in, which typically takes £100–£200 off a qualified installer's bill. A total installed cost near £700 on a clean job is realistic. The 1.5kg mount is light — easier on render, easier on rental walls. The built-in 4G eSIM with lifetime coverage means the charger keeps running schedules in the garage-Wi-Fi black spot where a cheaper unit would drop off the network.

The compromises are honest. Untethered means carrying the cable. IP54 is the lowest weather rating in this bracket, though adequate for a sheltered install. And there's no direct tariff API, so on Octopus Agile — where rates move every half hour — the Easee can't chase them. On a fixed-window tariff like Octopus Go or E.ON Next Drive, that limitation doesn't bite; a manual 00:30–05:30 schedule does the job.

For Agile users specifically, the Ohme Home Pro at £535 is the charger that talks to your supplier, and its premium over the Easee is the smallest sensible upgrade path. For solar-first buyers outside the EcoFlow world, the Zappi GLO comparison is the better read — see Zappi GLO vs EcoFlow PowerPulse 2.

The verdict

Buy the Easee One if:

• You want the cheapest properly-specified charger that will pass an electrician's inspection.
• You're on a fixed-window tariff and don't need half-hourly optimisation.
• You qualify for the £500 OZEV grant and want the certainty of an approved unit.

Buy the EcoFlow PowerPulse 2 if:

• You already own, or are buying, an EcoFlow PowerOcean battery and matching solar.
• You have a three-phase supply and will actually use 22kW.
• Single-app control of the whole home energy stack matters more than £140 and OZEV certainty.

Given a clean wall and a Tesla, the Easee One is the one to fit. It's £140 cheaper, grant-eligible, and does not depend on a separate battery purchase to make sense of itself. The EcoFlow PowerPulse 2 is a coherent piece of a larger EcoFlow system; as a standalone charger, it's asking for a premium it can't quite defend.