Electric Car — car

It may surprise EV newbies to learn that an electric car’s charger is found on board the vehicle. The charger is not the thing on the wall, but rather the equipment buried in the guts of the car that takes an AC source of juice from your house, and converts it to DC—so your car’s battery pack can be charged.

This fact doesn’t stop nearly everybody from calling the wall-mounted box that supplies 240 volts of electricity a “charger.” That box, cord, and plug have a technical name—Electric Vehicle Service Equipment or EVSE—and if you have an EV, you’re going to want to install one at home.

Whether you already have an electric vehicle (EV) or you’re looking to get one for the first time, home charging is an important factor to consider.

Some people prefer to test an EV for a while before installing a charge point at home, while others go the whole hog from the off. Whichever category you fall into, most people in the UK do more than 90% of their EV charging at home, so it’s a key issue.