Tesla Wall Connector (Gen 3) vs Easee One

£14 on the sticker, a different story on the invoice

The Tesla Wall Connector costs £475. The Easee One costs £489. On paper, £14 separates them — barely enough to argue about. But the unit price is only half the spend. By the time an electrician has finished, the total gap may have inverted entirely, depending on your consumer unit and your eligibility for the OZEV grant.

• Tesla Wall Connector — £475, tethered with a 7.3-metre cable, 4-year warranty, native Tesla app. Not grant-eligible.
• Easee One — £489, untethered, 3-year warranty, built-in RCD and open-PEN detection, OZEV-approved.

The install cost is where the Easee makes its case

The Tesla Wall Connector ships without built-in RCD or surge protection. Your installer adds both — a Type B RCD and, typically, surge protection — which runs £100–£200 in parts and labour on top of the standard £400–£600 install. The Easee One has all of that inside the unit. It weighs 1.5 kg, mounts in minutes, and the electrician's bill shrinks accordingly.

Run the arithmetic on a straightforward install: £475 plus £550 install plus £150 in protection for the Tesla comes to roughly £1,175. The Easee at £489 plus £450 install — the protection already inside — lands around £939. That is a meaningful difference, and it is the Easee's strongest argument. On a tidy modern consumer unit with spare ways, the saving is real. On an older board that needs upgrading regardless, the gap narrows because the electrician is already deep into the panel.

Grant eligibility and the untethered trade-off

The Easee One is OZEV-approved. If you are a renter or flat owner, the £500 grant covers the £489 unit outright and contributes to install costs too. The Tesla Wall Connector is not approved — no grant, full price, no exceptions. For grant-eligible buyers, this alone settles the question.

The cost of that approval, in daily life, is the cable. The Easee is untethered: you carry your own Type 2 lead, uncoil it, plug it into the socket, plug it into the car. Every single time. The Tesla's 7.3-metre tethered cable — the longest in our catalogue — hangs from the wall, ready. In the rain, in the dark, after a long drive, the difference between grabbing a cable and fetching one from the boot is not trivial. It is a comfort question, and comfort compounds over years.

Neither charger chases cheap rates for you

Both units schedule charging — set a start time, the car charges then. Neither talks to your energy supplier's API to hunt the cheapest half-hours on a variable tariff. On Octopus Go or EDF GoElectric, where the off-peak window is fixed, a manual schedule is fine. Set it once, forget it.

On Octopus Agile, where rates shift every 30 minutes, both chargers are equally blind. If you are on Agile — or plan to be — neither the Tesla nor the Easee is the right answer. The Ohme Home Pro at £539 has a direct tariff API and will repay its premium within weeks. That comparison is covered in detail on the Tesla Wall Connector vs Ohme Home Pro page.

The Easee does have one connectivity advantage: a built-in eSIM with lifetime 4G, no subscription. If your garage sits at the far end of the garden, beyond Wi-Fi range, the Easee stays connected where the Tesla may not. A narrow use case, but a decisive one if it applies to you.

Which to buy

Buy the Tesla Wall Connector if:

• You own a Tesla and want the native app, the 7.3-metre tethered cable, and a 4-year warranty — all for £475
• You prefer a tethered charger that is always ready to plug in
• You are not eligible for the OZEV grant and want the lower unit price

Buy the Easee One if:

• You are a renter or flat owner eligible for the £500 OZEV grant — the grant covers the unit and eats into install costs
• Your consumer unit lacks a Type B RCD and you want to save £100–£200 on install labour
• Your charger location has no Wi-Fi and you need built-in 4G

For a homeowner with a Tesla, a decent consumer unit, and reliable Wi-Fi, the Wall Connector is the quieter, cheaper, more convenient choice. The tethered cable and the extra warranty year matter more, day to day, than the Easee's install savings. But if the grant applies to you — or your electrician quotes £200 extra for protection on the Tesla — the Easee's total cost drops below the Tesla's, and the arithmetic does the deciding.