Hypervolt Home 3 Pro vs Easee One

The £136 question — and why the answer starts with your consumer unit

The Hypervolt Home 3 Pro costs £625. The Easee One costs £489. That £136 gap looks straightforward until you factor in what happens behind your fuse board.

• Hypervolt Home 3 Pro — tethered, IP66 + IK10, CT clamp for solar included. The do-everything option, priced accordingly.
• Easee One — untethered, 1.5 kg, built-in Type B RCD and open-PEN detection. The charger that tries to pay for itself at install.

Install savings can flip the maths

The Easee's party trick is what sits inside its 1.5 kg housing. A Type B RCD and open-PEN detection are baked in — components your electrician would otherwise source and fit separately, typically adding £100–£200 to the bill. On a straightforward install, that narrows the real-world gap to somewhere between nothing and £36. On a consumer unit that is already full or awkward, the saving can be larger still.

The Hypervolt carries no such onboard protection; its install assumes the electrician supplies the lot. If your board is modern and has space, the extra cost is modest and predictable. If your board is a relic from the 1990s, get a quote before you commit — the Easee may end up cheaper than the Hypervolt once both are live on the wall.

Living with tethered versus untethered

This is the divide that matters day to day. The Hypervolt hangs a Type 2 cable on your wall — 5 metres as standard, with 7.5 m and 10 m options at extra cost. You pull it off the holster, plug in, walk away. The Easee is a socket. You carry your own cable from the boot, connect both ends, then stow it again when you leave.

For a single household car that charges at home every night, tethered wins on pure convenience. For a home where two drivers share the charger — or where the car is sometimes away for days and you'd rather not stare at a dangling cable — untethered has a quiet logic to it.

The Hypervolt's 10-metre cable option deserves a specific mention. No other home charger on the UK market offers that reach. If your supply entry is at the front of the house and your parking is round the side, the Hypervolt may be the only unit that avoids a cable trench.

Weatherproofing and build

IP66 plus IK10 on the Hypervolt versus IP54 on the Easee. In plain terms: the Hypervolt is rated against powerful water jets and significant impact; the Easee is rated against splashing water and light knocks. Both will survive a typical British wall, but if your charger is exposed — no carport, no overhang, next to a shared path where a wheelie bin might clip it — the Hypervolt's rating is not decorative. It is insurance.

Smart tariffs and solar

Neither charger is the smartest in the catalogue. The Hypervolt integrates with smart tariffs and includes a CT clamp for basic solar diversion, but its tariff logic does not chase half-hourly pricing the way the Ohme Home Pro does. The Easee's scheduling is manual — set a window in the app, and it charges during that window. No tariff API, no price-following.

On a fixed off-peak tariff like Octopus Go (8.5p/kWh, 00:30–05:30), both do the job: set the schedule, forget it. On Octopus Agile, where rates shift every thirty minutes, neither charger can optimise automatically. If half-hourly price-chasing is the priority, the comparison you need is the Ohme Home Pro vs Hypervolt Home 3 Pro — or, for the Easee buyer, the Ohme Home Pro vs Easee One.

For solar owners, the Hypervolt's included CT clamp is a tangible extra — the Easee has no solar integration at all. Buyers with larger arrays who want surplus-only charging should look at the myenergi Zappi GLO instead; its Eco+ mode is purpose-built for that job.

The Easee's 4G fallback

One feature the Easee owns outright: a built-in eSIM with lifetime 4G connectivity at no recurring cost. If your garage is at the far end of the garden, beyond reliable Wi-Fi range, the Easee will still run its schedules over mobile data. The Hypervolt relies on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. For most driveways this is irrelevant; for detached garages or outbuildings, it matters.

Which to buy

Buy the Hypervolt Home 3 Pro if:

• You want a tethered cable and the convenience of not carrying one from the boot
• Your charger is exposed to weather or impact — IP66 + IK10 is the strongest rating in the residential market
• You have solar panels and want basic diversion without buying extra hardware

Buy the Easee One if:

• Your consumer unit is full or dated, and the built-in RCD and open-PEN detection will save you £100–£200 on install
• You prefer an untethered socket — cleaner wall, universal cable compatibility
• Your charger location has poor Wi-Fi and you need the lifetime 4G fallback

For most buyers with a standard install and a single car at home, the Hypervolt is the more complete product. It costs more on paper and earns it back in daily convenience, build quality, and the solar CT clamp. The Easee's case narrows to two specific scenarios — a difficult consumer unit, or a garage beyond Wi-Fi reach — but in those scenarios, it is the right answer.