Hypervolt Home 3 Pro vs Easee One: the £285 question

The £285 question

One of these is the cheapest proper charger on the UK market. The other is built like it expects to be hit with a spade. The Easee One is £405; the Hypervolt Home 3 Pro is £690. The gap is £285, and it buys you a tethered cable, a serious weatherproof rating, and the sense that you've stopped shopping.

• Easee One — £405, untethered, 1.5 kg, built-in eSIM. The pragmatic minimum viable charger, done well.
• Hypervolt Home 3 Pro — £690, tethered up to 10 metres, IP66 + IK10. The fit-and-forget choice.

What the £285 actually buys

Three things, mostly. A tethered cable, so you never carry one — and crucially a 10-metre option, which is the longest on any charger we list. An IP66 + IK10 rating, meaning dust-tight, high-pressure-jet resistant, and built to survive a stray football. And a CT clamp in the box for solar diversion, if you ever fit panels.

The Easee One concedes all three. It's untethered, IP54, and solar isn't its game. What it offers instead is a lighter fitting, a built-in Type B RCD and open-PEN detection that typically shaves £100–£200 off install labour, and a lifetime 4G eSIM that keeps the charger connected where Wi-Fi won't reach the garage. On a clean job, the Easee lands close to £700 installed — about where the Hypervolt's unit price alone sits.

That's the shape of the decision. You're not paying £285 for better charging; both deliver 7.4kW single-phase and neither offers three-phase. You're paying it for hardware and convenience that reveal themselves over years.

Tariffs: neither is the automation king

This is where both chargers are honest. Neither has the deep tariff API that makes the Ohme Home Pro the default recommendation for Octopus Agile. The Hypervolt does smart-tariff scheduling competently; the Easee runs schedules through its app. Fine, both of them, for fixed-window tariffs like Octopus Go (00:30–05:30) or E.ON Next Drive (00:00–06:00) where you set a window and forget.

On Octopus Intelligent Go, the car tends to handle optimisation itself through Tesla's API, which levels the field further. If tariff automation is the reason you're buying — if you're on Agile or planning to be — stop reading and go to the Ohme vs Easee comparison instead. Neither charger here is the right answer to that question.

The untethered compromise

The Easee's socket-only design is divisive. In its favour: the wall stays clean when the car's away, no dangling cable to weather or trip over, and if the cable ever fails you replace the cable, not the charger. Against it: you're opening the boot, unspooling a cable, plugging both ends in, every single time. For most Tesla owners who charge five nights a week, that small friction adds up.

The Hypervolt's tethered cable is always there, always ready, and at 7.5 or 10 metres will reach awkward parking positions the Easee can't without a long portable lead.

Which to buy

Buy the Hypervolt Home 3 Pro if:

• You want a tethered cable, ideally the 10-metre option
• Your charger will live exposed to weather — coastal, west-facing, or otherwise battered
• You'd rather spend once and stop researching

Buy the Easee One if:

• Price is the deciding factor and £405 is the ceiling
• You'll charge in a garage or under an eave where IP54 is plenty
• You like the neat wall when the car's not home

If it were our wall and the budget stretched, the Hypervolt. The tethered cable, the IP66 + IK10 build, and the UK support line are not luxuries — they're the difference between a charger you think about and one you don't. But if £285 is £285, the Easee is a seriously competent piece of hardware for the money, and the integrated protection quietly claws back some of the gap at install. Neither is wrong. One just costs less.