EVIQO Evipower Home Charger Review: Great Hardware, Not-So-Great App

There are two types of buyers when it comes to home EV chargers: those who will never think about charging beyond plugging in and nerds like us who want to know how much energy they used and money they spent while driving an electric car. The EVIQO Evipower home charger is a solid choice for EV owners who will never open their charger’s phone app after the initial setup. But thanks in large part to its quirky app, there are better options out there for the superuser set.

EVIQO’s hardware is truly impressive. A 24.1-foot charging cable and, on plug-in models, a long 29-inch power cord provide flexibility for where you mount the compact 9.5-inch-square wall box. Buyers also have options for how they store the charging cable. It can be coiled around the included plug holster or draped around the wall box. EVIQO even throws in a rubber dust cap to keep the electrical pins clean and dry if you don’t use the holster

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EVIQO Evipower home charger

• MSRP: $514

• Max power: 11.5 kW

• Cable length/diameter: 24.1 ft/0.7 in

• Connector: J1772 or NACS

• Installation: NEMA 14-50 plug or hardwire

Buy the J1772 Version

Buy the NACS Version

The Evipower looks and feels well-built thanks to touches like a grippy rubberized handle and a metal latch that locks the connector to the vehicle charging port. This latch, which is typically made of plastic, is a common failure point for Level 2 public chargers. EVIQO’s aluminum part is probably overkill for a home charger that’s handled with more care, but it speaks to the company’s attention to detail and should prove durable if the connector is accidentally dropped.

At a retail price of $514, the Evipower costs about the same as comparable home chargers, but that doesn’t mean you should willingly fork over the full asking price. EV chargers are perpetually on sale, and the Evipower is a much more compelling buy at a discounted price. We’ve regularly seen it sold for $399.

Plugged in to a NEMA 14-50 outlet, the Evipower delivers up to 9.6 kilowatts (40 amps), which adds about 25 miles per hour of charging for an all-wheel-drive Ford Mustang Mach-E. Hardwired installations allow you to turn the power up to 11.5 kW (48 amps), good for roughly 30 miles per hour in the Mach-E. Buyers can choose between the J1772 connector, which was used by all non-Tesla EVs up until the 2025 model year, or the Tesla-designed NACS port, which is becoming the industry standard.

The Evipower is ETL certified to meet industry safety standards and IP66 rated for weather resistance, allowing it to be installed in a garage or outdoors. The included three-year warranty is typical for EV chargers, though worrywarts can add another year of coverage for an additional $76

About That App

EVIQO’s free app is attractive, but the company has made some of the most basic tasks unintuitive and needlessly complex. If your electric rate varies throughout the day (known as a time-of-use rate plan), you’ll want to program a charging schedule so your EV only draws electricity when it’s cheapest. Weirdly, when a charging window crosses midnight—as most off-peak periods do—EVIQO forces you to break it into two separate periods. This won’t be a problem for most users. Regular Joes and Janes will never notice that their car momentarily stopped and restarted charging while they slept. Data junkies, though, will need to manually combine data from two sessions to summarize one charge.

For MotorTrend staffers, the chief reason for using an EV charger app is to pull the energy and cost for a single charge, which helps us calculate real-world mpg-e and cost per mile for our long-term vehicles. Even getting that data from the EVIQO app is cumbersome. The app totals and plots energy consumption and cost across a week, month, or three-month period. To see daily statistics, you have to turn to the notifications page, where the typical overnight charge that’s been split over two days is shown on two different screens. Coming up with the basic numbers we’re after means opening a calculator app and swiping back and forth. EVIQO tells us it’s working on an app update that will allow a single charging session to cross midnight without interruption.

A Better Option for the Power Users

Admittedly, these annoyances are the definition of a first-world problem. Most EV owners won’t dive deep enough into the app to encounter them. That said, there are several quality EV chargers on the market that offer similar features with a better user interface for the same money. Our favorite is the Autel MaxiCharger AC Lite, the winner of a 2025 MotorTrend Best Tech award, which makes key information more accessible in the app and even allows users to export a spreadsheet of charging data. The good news for EVIQO is that catching up to the best is simply a matter of updating the app. We found the Evipower to be a great piece of hardware—one that’s simply waiting on the right companion software to do it justice.