myenergi Zappi GLO vs Easee One

The £110 between solar and simplicity

The myenergi Zappi GLO costs £599. The Easee One costs £489. That £110 gap is the entire conversation — and whether it's money well spent or money wasted depends on a single question: do you have solar panels on your roof?

• myenergi Zappi GLO — a solar-diverting charger with three modes, ecosystem hooks, and a 22kW three-phase option. Overkill without panels.
• Easee One — a compact, untethered box with built-in RCD protection and lifetime 4G. Cheap to install, limited in ambition.

When the Zappi GLO earns its £599

Eco+ mode. That is the answer. In Eco+ the Zappi GLO charges your car using only surplus solar generation — nothing from the grid. On a decent array in the longer months, that is hundreds of kilowatt-hours you never pay for. Eco mode blends solar and grid when the sun dips. Fast mode ignores the panels entirely and pulls full power. Three modes, one dial in the myenergi app.

The Zappi also slots into myenergi's wider ecosystem — the eddi diverts surplus to your hot-water tank, the libbi stores it in a home battery. If you are building a self-consumption system around your panels, the Zappi is the charger that speaks the same language. Nothing else at £599 does this as fluently. The GivEnergy EV Charger at £444 integrates with GivEnergy batteries and has its own solar logic, but it lacks the Zappi's three distinct diversion modes. For a deeper look at that pairing, the Zappi GLO vs GivEnergy comparison covers the detail.

Without panels, none of this matters. You are paying £599 for a solar computer with no solar to compute. The old Zappi 2.1's on-unit screen is gone — everything runs through the app now — so there is no consolation-prize hardware feature to justify the spend. A grid-only buyer should look elsewhere.

The Easee One's real advantage is in the fuse box

The Easee One weighs 1.5 kg. It is a small, tidy rectangle that disappears on a wall. But the more meaningful number is the £100–£200 it can save on installation. It has a Type B RCD and open-PEN detection built in, which means your electrician does not need to add those components at the consumer unit. On a straightforward install that brings the all-in cost down noticeably. On a complicated board — an older property, a full CU — it can be the difference between a simple job and a rewire.

The lifetime 4G eSIM is the other practical win. Wi-Fi signal to an outside wall is a common headache; the Easee sidesteps it entirely. The Zappi GLO has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth only — no cellular fallback. If your router is at the front of the house and your charger is at the back, the Easee stays connected where the Zappi may not.

The trade-off: the Easee is untethered. You carry a cable, you plug it in, you unplug it, you coil it up. Every time. The Zappi GLO comes tethered with a 6.5-metre Type 2 lead — grab and charge. For daily convenience, that matters more than specs sheets suggest.

Neither charger is a smart-tariff specialist

This is worth stating plainly. The Easee One has scheduled charging but no tariff API — you set the times manually. The Zappi GLO supports smart tariffs through the myenergi app but cannot negotiate extra off-peak slots the way the Ohme Home Pro does on Intelligent Go. On a variable tariff like Octopus Agile, where rates shift every half hour, neither charger chases the cheapest slots automatically. The Ohme does.

If your priority is squeezing every penny from a time-of-use tariff, neither the Zappi GLO nor the Easee One is the right tool. The Ohme Home Pro at £539 sits between them on price and outperforms both on tariff optimisation. The Ohme vs Easee comparison lays that case out fully.

The verdict

Buy the myenergi Zappi GLO if:

• You have solar panels and want to charge from surplus generation
• You are building a myenergi ecosystem with eddi or libbi
• You prefer a tethered charger with a 6.5-metre cable attached

Buy the Easee One if:

• You have no solar panels and want the lowest total install cost
• Your Wi-Fi does not reach the charger location — the built-in 4G solves it
• You prefer a clean, untethered wall mount and do not mind handling the cable

The deciding factor is on the roof, not on the wall. Panels — buy the Zappi GLO without hesitation. No panels — the Easee One is the tidier, cheaper, better-connected box, and the £110 you save is real money. Neither charger is the right pick for a buyer whose main concern is tariff optimisation; that buyer wants the Ohme Home Pro and should start there.