myenergi Zappi GLO vs EcoFlow PowerPulse 2: which solar charger?

Two solar chargers, two different bets

Both of these are made to do the same job — send surplus photovoltaic power into a car rather than back to the grid at a pittance. The myenergi Zappi GLO is the UK incumbent at £750. The EcoFlow PowerPulse 2 is the newcomer at £545, £205 less, and it wants to sell you a whole home-energy ecosystem while it's at it.

The shortest version:

• myenergi Zappi GLO — the proven solar diverter. Eco+ mode is the reason people buy it. £750.
• EcoFlow PowerPulse 2 — a solar-and-battery ecosystem charger. Compelling if you already own an EcoFlow PowerOcean. Awkward if you don't.

What £205 buys, and what it doesn't

The Zappi GLO's Eco+ mode is the feature the rest of the market has spent a decade catching up with. It watches your export meter and throttles the car between 1.4kW and 7kW to match whatever the panels are spilling. The EcoFlow PowerPulse 2 has a Solar Mode that does the same thing in principle, but EcoFlow are new to wall chargers in the UK. myenergi have been refining this one behaviour since 2017.

The other £205 buys you certainty on paperwork. The Zappi GLO is OZEV-approved — if you're a renter or flat owner, the £500 grant applies and covers most of the unit. The PowerPulse 2's OZEV status isn't confirmed, which means a grant-eligible buyer should check with EcoFlow before ordering or the price advantage evaporates.

Against the Zappi, though, the EcoFlow has an on-unit LCD (the Zappi GLO dropped the screen its predecessor had — everything now lives in the app), a slightly lower weight, and OCPP 1.6-J compliance out of the box. Useful if you care about charger-agnostic backend software. Most home buyers won't.

When the EcoFlow actually makes sense

There is one household where the PowerPulse 2 is the correct answer and the Zappi is not: the one that already owns an EcoFlow PowerOcean battery, or is about to. In that setup, solar generation, home battery, house load, and EV charging all sit on one dashboard. The Zappi can talk to the myenergi libbi battery and eddi hot-water diverter — but if your battery is an EcoFlow, the Zappi is a stranger at the party.

Outside that narrow case, the PowerPulse 2 is harder to recommend. The ecosystem advantage is gated to existing EcoFlow owners. The warranty is three years — the same as the Zappi, but shorter than the Simpson & Partners Home 7 at ten. The UK installer network is smaller. And the smart-tariff handling, while present, isn't in the same league as the API-driven scheduling from Ohme Home Pro on Octopus Agile.

What neither of these is for

Worth naming plainly: if you don't have solar and you don't have (or want) an EcoFlow battery, you are looking at the wrong two chargers. £545 to £750 is a lot of money for solar-diverting hardware you will never feed.

For a smart-tariff household on Octopus Intelligent Go or Octopus Go, the Ohme Home Pro at £535 does the job better. For a Tesla driver who just wants reliable overnight charging, the Tesla Wall Connector at £478 is the quieter, cheaper answer. Solar buyers weighing the Zappi against a tariff-first charger will get more out of the Ohme vs Zappi GLO comparison.

The verdict

Buy the myenergi Zappi GLO if:

• You have solar panels and want the most proven surplus-diverter on the UK market
• You own or plan to own myenergi's eddi or libbi
• OZEV eligibility matters to you

Buy the EcoFlow PowerPulse 2 if:

• You already own (or are committing to) an EcoFlow PowerOcean battery
• You want solar, battery, house and EV managed from a single app
• You've confirmed OZEV status directly with EcoFlow and it doesn't affect your decision

On a wall, with solar on the roof and no EcoFlow gear in the garage, the Zappi GLO is still the answer. It costs £205 more than the PowerPulse 2, and the money goes into a decade of refinement on the single feature you bought it for. The EcoFlow is a reasonable charger tied to a bet on a specific battery brand — a bet most UK households have not placed.