Easee One vs NexBlue Point 2: the £125 question

The £125 question

On paper this is a mismatch. The Easee One is £405 — the cheapest mainstream charger on the UK market. The NexBlue Point 2 is £530, and on its spec sheet it reads like something twice the price: V2G-ready, OCPP 2.0.1, solar surplus, lifetime 4G, five-year warranty.

So why wouldn't everyone pay the £125 extra? Because most of what the NexBlue offers is forward-dated. The Easee does the job a home charger has to do today, at the lowest price on this site. The question is whether you're buying for 2026 or for 2030.

The shortest version:

• Easee One — the cheapest credible charger on the market. Proven, light, installer-friendly. Manual scheduling.
• NexBlue Point 2 — future-facing hardware at a mid-market price. V2G-ready, tariff-aware, but from a brand with little UK track record.

What the £125 actually buys

Strip the marketing off and the premium gets you three things. First, V2G and ISO 15118 hardware — bi-directional charging without a future unit swap, assuming UK tariffs and car support catch up. Second, EcoPilot tariff automation, which talks directly to Octopus Intelligent Go, Octopus Agile and others at the charger level. Third, a CT clamp in the box that handles both load balancing and solar surplus.

The Easee has none of those. Its scheduling is manual — you set a window in the app and it charges within it. That's fine on Octopus Go, where the off-peak slot is fixed at 12:30am–5:30am, or on E.ON Next Drive. It's a poor match for Agile, where rates move every half hour. If your tariff strategy is "cheapest five hours overnight", the Easee is the better value. If it's "chase the half-hourly price", the NexBlue earns its premium — or the Ohme Home Pro at £535 does the same job with a longer track record.

The brand-maturity problem

Easee has been on UK walls long enough for the awkward stories to surface and get fixed. The unit is 1.5 kg, has built-in Type B RCD and open-PEN detection (which typically knocks £100–£200 off install labour), and almost every UK installer knows how to mount one. Total installed on a clean job lands close to £700.

NexBlue is a newer UK name. The hardware reads well — IP54 plus IK10 impact rating, a 4G eSIM with lifetime free connectivity, a five-year warranty that's above average at this price — but the installer network is smaller and the long-term reliability data isn't there yet. You are, to some extent, betting that the spec sheet reflects the real product.

That's not a reason to rule it out. It is a reason to weigh the five-year warranty carefully, because it's doing more work here than on a charger from an established brand.

V2G: real plan or hedge?

This is the honest test. If you have a V2G-capable car and a tariff that rewards export, the NexBlue's bi-directional hardware is a genuine reason to pay the £125. If V2G is "something I might want one day", you're paying now for a capability that may arrive after the warranty expires. Buyers in that second camp are better served by an Ohme Home Pro or — if V2G readiness is the priority but you want a more established option — the Zaptec Go 2 at £500.

For solar-first buyers, neither of these is the natural answer. The solar diversion on the NexBlue is functional but needs the Zen accessory, and the Zappi GLO comparison spells out why a dedicated solar charger usually wins that argument.

The verdict

Buy the Easee One if:

• You want the cheapest credible charger on the UK market at £405
• Your tariff is flat-rate or a fixed off-peak window
• You value a proven product and a wide installer network

Buy the NexBlue Point 2 if:

• V2G is a near-term plan, not a distant hedge
• You're on Octopus Agile and want tariff automation at the charger
• You want solar surplus without buying a separate diverter unit

If forced to put one on a wall without knowing the buyer, it's the Easee. At £405 it's the most pragmatic home charger on this site, and pragmatism is what a home charger is for. The NexBlue is the more interesting piece of kit — but "interesting" and "what I'd spend £125 more on" aren't the same sentence. Pay the premium only if you can name the feature that justifies it.