Indra Smart PRO vs NexBlue Point 2: the £69 question

The £69 that buys you a cable — or costs you a warranty

Two V2G-leaning chargers, £69 apart, aimed at the buyer who wants to hedge against whatever the next decade of home charging turns into. The Indra Smart PRO is £599 and tethered, with surge protection in the box and a British factory behind it. The NexBlue Point 2 is £530, untethered, and loaded with the newest standards — OCPP 2.0.1, ISO 15118, lifetime 4G — at the cost of being the newer name on the wall.

The shortest version:

• Indra Smart PRO — tethered, British-built, surge protection included. Three-year warranty. £599.
• NexBlue Point 2 — untethered, V2G-ready, five-year warranty, lifetime 4G. £530.

What £69 more actually buys on the Indra

A 6-metre tethered cable, a surge protection device, and UK manufacturing. That's the honest list. The Indra Smart PRO's SPD is the quiet argument for its price — on installs where the electrician would otherwise add one for £100–£150, the Indra is already ahead. On installs where they wouldn't, you've paid £69 extra for a cable you may or may not want dangling off the wall.

The tether itself is a matter of taste. If the car always parks in the same spot and you like grabbing the plug without unlocking the boot, tethered wins. If you have two EVs, or a Type 2 cable already, or you want the wall to look tidier when nothing's plugged in, untethered is the cleaner answer — and the NexBlue Point 2 only offers that.

The warranty gap runs the other way. Three years on the Indra, five on the NexBlue. For a £69 saving, you're getting two additional years of cover — which is unusual.

Where the NexBlue's feature list gets suspicious in a good way

On paper, the NexBlue Point 2 is doing things chargers £200 more expensive don't always do. OCPP 2.0.1 compliance is the newest version of the open standard. ISO 15118 enables Plug & Charge and proper bi-directional charging. The 4G eSIM is lifetime-free, which matters if your garage Wi-Fi is flaky — and flaky Wi-Fi is why cheap chargers silently miss their cheap-rate windows. The included CT clamp handles both load balancing and solar surplus, so there's no accessory shopping list.

The caveat is simple: NexBlue is new. There isn't yet a meaningful pool of three-year-old units to tell us how these age on a British exterior wall through a few wet winters. The IP54 + IK10 rating is reassuring on the datasheet. Five years of warranty is reassuring on paper. Neither is the same as a decade of field data, which the Ohme Home Pro and Tesla Wall Connector now have.

Tariff behaviour — both competent, neither a standout

Both chargers handle smart tariffs. The Indra integrates with Octopus Intelligent Go, OVO Charge Anytime, Octopus Go and EDF GoElectric. The NexBlue's EcoPilot covers Intelligent Go, Octopus Agile and other time-of-use tariffs. Neither matches the Ohme Home Pro for depth of tariff integration, which remains the benchmark in this bracket for £535. If tariff automation is the primary reason you're buying a charger, the Ohme is still the answer — the Ohme vs Indra and Ohme vs NexBlue comparisons go into the specifics.

The verdict

Buy the Indra Smart PRO if:

• Your installer's quote explicitly itemises a surge protection device at £100 or more
• You want a tethered cable and a British-made unit
• You have a specific preference for Indra's ecosystem or installer network

Buy the NexBlue Point 2 if:

• You're happy with untethered and you want the latest standards (OCPP 2.0.1, ISO 15118)
• You value a five-year warranty and lifetime 4G connectivity
• Your home Wi-Fi near the driveway is unreliable

For most buyers, the NexBlue is the better £530 than the Indra is a £599 — more features, longer warranty, newer standards, lower price. The case for the Indra is narrow but real: if your install paperwork already has an SPD line item, the £69 premium is effectively a rebate. If it doesn't, save the money, or look sideways at the Ohme Home Pro for tariff depth and the Tesla Wall Connector for the longest cable at the lowest price. On the wall? The NexBlue — with the caveat that you're backing a younger name to age as well as its spec sheet suggests.