Easee Charge Up review: cheap, small, and what's missing

The sum first. The Charge Up costs €549 at The Mobility House in Germany, checked 2 November 2026. It has a socket and no cable, so add €119 for a 5 m Harting cable if your car didn't come with a usable one. Prices differ in other countries, and installation is on top. Ingenieur.de, citing ADAC in September 2026, puts a single-family-home install at roughly €500 to €3,000.

So the box is often the smaller bill. That's why I care more about what it saves the electrician than about its list of features.

None of this is my own testing. Specs come from Easee's product sheet and The Mobility House. I couldn't find an independent test of the Charge Up itself. ADAC gave the older Easee Home 10103 a 1.9 in 2022, according to e-mobileo's overview of its results, and that's a different model, so I wouldn't lean on it. It carries a worse mark as well. Realtid reported in March 2023 that Sweden's electrical safety regulator, Elsäkerhetsverket, stopped sales of the Easee Home and Easee Charge, because their earth-fault and DC protection didn't meet the standards they were declared to. That report doesn't cover the Charge Up, and I haven't read how the case ended.

One date to check before you order. Zerofy, a charging software firm, says the Charge Up leaves the EU market at the end of 2026. The Mobility House still showed 1 to 3 working days on November 2, 2026. I couldn't confirm the exit with Easee, so ask the seller who supports it afterwards.

What the money buys

The useful part is inside. The Mobility House says a Type A RCD and a DC fault sensor are built in, and that the installation only needs a circuit breaker upstream. That's the line I'd read first on any box in my wallbox picks, because a separate protection device costs money and fuse-box space.

Power adjusts in steps. Easee's sheet gives 1.4 to 7.4 kW on one phase and 4.1 to 22 kW on three, at 6 to 32 A. It lists TN, TT and IT grids, with three-phase IT topping out at 12.7 kW. That last figure matters in Norway, where Zerofy, a charging software firm, says most homes are on 230 V IT grids and car makers advise single-phase charging.

It's small too: 1.5 kg and 256 x 193 x 106 mm, and rated IP54 for outdoor mounting. Easee quotes -30 °C to +40 °C. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a built-in mobile link come as standard, with RFID for locking it. A free eSIM is included, says The Mobility House. It doesn't say for how long.

What's missing

A calibrated meter. The meter works, but it isn't certified. For a private car that's fine. If anyone pays you back for charging, stop here. Easee's sheet says the Charge Up can't be used to charge cars where reimbursement is wanted on actual consumption, and can't be used to calculate it. The same sheet limits it to home use on your own grid connection. It adds that some markets don't require MID yet, so check local rules.

In Germany, Ingenieur.de reports that since 2026, home charging reimbursed by an employer has to be shown with a separate meter, which can be one in the wallbox or the car. Zerofy calls MID the safe choice. The Zaptec Go 2 has one at €749, and Easee's Charge Max has one too.

Solar and load balancing out of the box. Easee's sheet marks automatic solar charging, and adjusting speed to the available current, with a footnote: Equalizer required. The Mobility House sells the Equalizer bundle separately, for surplus solar, dynamic load management and §14a control. Its lead time was 6 to 7 weeks when I checked, against 1 to 3 working days for the charger. If you've got panels, price the pair.

A cable. Annoying if you park outside and want it hanging ready. Fine if your car came with one.

Do you want 22 kW at all?

Probably not. Many cars stop at 11 kW on AC, and in Germany a box above 12 kVA needs the grid operator's consent where 11 kW only needs notifying. Ingenieur.de states both points. 11 kW or 22 kW goes through the rules country by country.

The Mobility House lists 11 kW among the configurable power settings here. Ask your electrician and grid operator whether running it at that setting changes what you have to file. I haven't read a rule that settles it.

Who should buy it, and who shouldn't

I'd buy it for a private car, on a three-phase supply, with no solar yet and a cable already in the boot.

I'd skip it in three cases:

• Your employer or a tax rule wants metered kWh. Easee's sheet rules this box out, so go to a MID one.
• You've got solar now. Compare the combined price with a box that does surplus charging without an add-on, and note that the KEBA P40 needs its own separate meter for that.
• You want the simplest thing that charges a car. The ABL eMH1 at €439 has a 6 m cable and a key switch. It has no app and no meter either, so there's less to go wrong and less to look at.

The full spec sheet is on the Easee Charge Up page.