CarGearBench

We don’t test the gear. We read the people who do — and we show our working.

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EV charging

Home charging, without the guesswork.

Almost every home charger sold now has a selectable output, which makes the headline amperage the least useful number on the box. What decides your charging speed is the circuit your panel can spare and the ceiling built into your car, and both are knowable before you buy anything. This is the one section of the site where the answer is mostly arithmetic rather than measurement — so the arithmetic is shown, and you can check it.

A domestic garage wall with an open consumer unit, rows of breakers and conduit running down bare plaster.
Illustration, not evidence. The circuit, not the charger, is what usually decides your charging speed — and it is the one part you cannot change without an electrician.

One page here so far. We would rather publish the section with a single page we can stand behind than pad it — and the comparison table this section obviously wants is waiting on a source that reports its figures unambiguously enough to reprint. See the method.