Tesla Wall Connector vs Easee One: the £73 question

The £73 that buys you a cable and an app

Both chargers are 7.4kW single-phase units aimed at the same wall. The Easee One is £405, OZEV-approved, untethered, and light enough to hang off a single hand. The Tesla Wall Connector is £478, not grant-eligible, tethered with a 7.3-metre lead, and speaks directly to the car sat on your drive. The £73 gap is real, but it's the smaller of the two decisions the pairing forces.

The bigger decision is what the charger does when you're not looking at it. Neither of these units chases half-hourly tariff pricing. Both expect you to set a schedule and leave it alone. That matters for who should buy which.

The shortest version:

• Tesla Wall Connector — the native option for a Tesla on a fixed off-peak window. Longest cable here, Tesla app on your phone, no grant.
• Easee One — the cheapest serious charger on the UK market. Lighter wall, OZEV-eligible, but you carry the cable.

Is the £73 premium worth it for a Tesla owner?

On a fixed tariff like Octopus Go or E.ON Next Drive, the Tesla Wall Connector is the cleaner answer. The schedule lives in the car, the history lives in the app you already have open, and the 7.3-metre tethered lead reaches awkward parking angles that a shorter cable won't. Power sharing across up to six units is a niche benefit — useful on a two-Tesla household, irrelevant everywhere else.

The argument against is narrower than it looks. Yes, the Easee One is £73 cheaper. Yes, it's OZEV-approved and the Wall Connector isn't. But the OZEV grant is £500, and only renters and flat owners qualify. If you own a freehold house, the grant isn't in the conversation, and the £73 is just £73. For a Tesla driver who wants plug-and-forget, the Wall Connector earns it.

Where the logic flips: if your tariff is variable — Octopus Agile in particular — neither of these chargers is the right tool. A charger that chases cheap half-hours, like the Ohme Home Pro at £535, will save back the price difference within a year. That's a separate comparison, covered on the Tesla vs Ohme page.

When the Easee One is the right call

Three scenarios tip the balance toward the £405 unit.

The first is the grant. Renters and flat owners get £500 off an OZEV-approved charger. On the Easee One, that wipes out the unit price and contributes to install costs too. On the Tesla Wall Connector, it does nothing. For a grant-eligible buyer, this is a one-sided decision.

The second is installed cost. The Easee One ships with a Type B RCD and open-PEN detection already built in. A competent installer will take £100–£200 off labour because those components don't need adding externally. The Tesla Wall Connector needs both. On a clean job, the Easee lands close to £700 installed; the Tesla closer to £900. That's a real gap, not the £73 on the unit sticker.

The third is mixed-car households. The Easee One is untethered, which means any EV can plug in with its own cable — useful if a second driver runs something other than a Tesla. The Wall Connector's tether is a Type 2 plug, so it'll charge anything, but every session ends with a heavy lead dangling.

The catch with the Easee

Untethered is a design choice, not a bug, and it's the right choice for some people. But it does mean every charge starts with a trip to the boot for your cable, and every charge ends with coiling it back up. In January rain, that gets old. The Tesla's 7.3 metres of permanently-attached lead is the charger's quiet advantage — you grab it, plug it, walk inside. The Easee's neat wall is paid for in small daily frictions.

The other caveat: the Easee is single-phase only. If you have three-phase supply and want 22kW at home, the Tesla Wall Connector is the cheaper of the two routes there (the Easee won't go). This is a tiny fraction of UK homes, but if it's yours, the decision is already made.

The verdict

Buy the Tesla Wall Connector if:

• You drive a Tesla and want the app already on your phone to run the charger
• You own a house (the £500 grant isn't available to you anyway)
• The 7.3-metre cable solves a parking geometry the Easee's untethered design would fight

Buy the Easee One if:

• You're a renter or flat owner eligible for the £500 OZEV grant
• You want the cheapest credible charger on the UK market at £405
• You'd rather a clean wall than a permanent dangling cable

Put a Tesla on a fixed tariff on my drive and I'd take the Wall Connector. Put me in a flat with grant eligibility and a budget, and the Easee One is the answer — and the install is cheaper on top. The £73 isn't the question. The grant and the cable are.