EASEE - Small. Smart. Full of Power

For this product showcase we spoke to Charlie O’Donoghue, Head of Product for
Easee UK, to learn about Easee’s innovative solutions for domestic and commercial
EV charging.
Easee was established in January 2018 by 3 Norwegian entrepreneurs with a vision
of creating the world’s smartest electric vehicle charger. Today the company
continues to develop their solutions for charging and power management
technology, to provide an ecosystem that will give customers a seamless experience
from A to Z.
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[@koma-k]

I've had two of them sharing a 20A circuit since they came out (actually I preordered them a few months ahead of release as the Norwegian EV association had a nice offer at the time). In the beginning (two and a half years ago) the load sharing was rather primitive, just halving the available power to each car if both were plugged in regardless of whether the cars wanted to charge or not, but it now works very well and happily gives one car the full 20A if the other has finished charging. Also, while remote diagnostics was mentioned I don't think he mentioned that they automatically update their software with no intervention required. I also have the "equalizer" in my fusebox reading the meter so it can throttle charging if it gets close to main fuse capacity - a necessity as it would otherwise be easy to overload it since my house has electric everything (ovens/cooktop/boiler/underfloor heating etc.) and only a single phase supply sized back in the seventies. I'll be getting a third one for the cabin soon. 🙂👍

[@Jeddin]

They should allow the home units to have payment processing which Tesla appears to be doing with their wall chargers. That will allow entrepreneurial home owners to set up chargers in their driveways and get recompensed for allowing others to use it.

[@tomdibben2189]

Tap Electric is your friend! Its free to use and integrates with the Easee One! :)

[@samrawson8763]

Easee pairs with Monta for that! Nice and simple.

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

They support RFID authentication. My neighbour has two stations to share with their tenant. They have different RFID to activate. Whenever they want, they can extract the sessions for the tenant, with the hourly tariff applied, for them to pay. I don't use RFID with mine, because it's just extra hazzle when I only use it myself.

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

There are some solutions to allow an app to activate charging with payment too, but the public charging infrastructure in Norway is fairly good, at least in my area, there's no need for it. I haven't looked into any details for it.

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

From the presentation, it sounds like the "commercial version" is the standard version in Norway. I have never heard about the 7 kW version until now, only the 22 kW.

[@fred27murphy]

I met the Easee guys at Fully Charged Live and they were so much more helpful than the other EVSE manufacturers at the show. They seemed as excited as I was that I could use the NFC chip implanted in my hand to activate the charger. I ordered one and I'm very happy with it.

[@zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589]

what a weirdo

[@eirikco]

That is so cool!

[@GrahamReid34]

Had an Easee charger for several months I love the design and app but what has been incredible is the customer service it's out of this world.

[@deansh8506]

I have recently fitted 12 of these 22kW Easee commercial chargers at my workplace. They are amazing chargers. The app is great. But the load management sold it for me. It has drastically reduced the infrastructure cost of the installation. Now 12 chargers share the available 40kW of the supplied circuit . Which is plenty as employees are parked up for 8 to 12 hours per day.

[@samrawson8763]

Do you re-coup electric costs from employees or are you offering them on free vend?

[@deansh8506]

@@samrawson8763 at the moment there are only 6 EV owners. So usage is recorded via the Easee portal with linked RFID's. I think the company will be rolling out the Easee chargers across all sites so may look into 3rd party payments at a later date when take up increases. These chargers are only used by employees so its not too difficult just to use the Easee portal.

[@samrawson8763]

@@deansh8506 As usage increases let me know if you'd like to look at payment processing. At Monta we can help with that. Also, reimbursements for home charging and access to a company wallet for public charging (like a company fuel card) if you have company car drivers :)

[@deansh8506]

@@samrawson8763Thanks. I will keep Monta in mind when take up increases. It would be handy if there was a video online explaining your integration with the Easee chargers and how it all comes together.

[@elbarkero]

Got an Easee One on order in preparation for our new car delivery. I can't wait to get it.

[@DyfiOspreyProject]

We have 15 of these Easee chargers in our car park. Cleraly the guy isn't going to tell you the downsides for Robert's commercial question at 6;35, so we will. These are two main ones: 1. We use Easee's own web interface to take payment - it's terrible. The reporting function is poor and the whole thing is not very intuative. You can't even change the order of the chargers on the display graphic - so whatever order your electrician put them in, that's it. They look like a bingo game, nothing sequential. We've reported this to Easee - they say "get people to pay via an App" (we don't want to do this) and "you can't change the numbering via software - you're stuck with it". 2. Despite having all the chargers on Permanant Unlock on the Easee web interface - they still lock customer's cables in so that they can't take them out. Highly embarrassing, it can take several minutes of messing around with locking, unlocking, start the car, stop the car, cable out of car end first etc etc. Nightmare. We are now having our electrcian back to permantly unlock the chargers using hardware in the charger; not really what we want as customers (some of them anyway) will just drive off without paying.

[@samrawson8763]

You should consider pairing your Easee charge points with Monta's back office for a better payment solution! It will completely eliminate the problems you're facing.

[@frejaresund3770]

I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.

[@Dremansworld]

Loved the crossing videos, looked like a blast!

[@kimbye1]

Got one at home, great charger and clever app.

[@abrahamgalvez7091]

That is a knowledgable leader. The best kind.

[@mikemellor759]

Useful profile - thanks

[@pasapear2992]

Im absolutely so proud of I have engaged in producing..👍👍

[@AR-yk1kv]

It’s a great show

[@neastop]

Got one. It's brilliant.

[@itekani]

Yay, my second favourite wallbox, after Zappi :)

[@Andi_mit_E]

Thanks

[@douggray169]

great product

[@alexb9498]

Great Video Guys, Shame I can't get this product in Australia and the Company Easee don't have a contact link on web site. But I do like this product cheers Alex 🙂

[@EugeneLambert]

Looks like a great smart charger. Will be even better when it has grid level load capping and PV integration like the Zappi's Eco++ mode that allows 'excess' electricity to be diverted into the car.

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

As far as I know, there's no problem for third party system to communicate through the API, to adjust charging rate and turn on/off according to PV production. My energy company use the API to control my charging according to hourly tariff, and disable charging while most expensive. If I had PV, I would add them to that ecosystem, and they would balance charging vs. house and PV too.

[@rossadamdixon]

We have managed to get an easee charger in our flat car park space. The 4g connection is great given it's almost impossible to get a WiFi connection in the car park.

[@rossadamdixon]

I should say that the UK needs to follow Norway in having a right to charge law. It took 2 years and me working to replace our development's factor to just be allowed to ask the other owners for permission to lay a cable under what's known as the common ground. The old factor didn't want to know despite a process for voting being in our title deeds. A right to charge law would allow anyone who wants to get a charger installed the right to get one. This would massively help people in flats who have their own spaces.

[@benjimc1]

If you don't mind me asking, how much did it cost you to get it fitted?

[@biskero]

pretty cool !

[@hughchristie4200]

I have had one since May and I am very happy with it. Everyone loves it’s discreet nature. Well done Easee

[@adsheff]

How much was it?

[@greigs9384]

@@adsheff I paid just over £1k installed. But I needed a small consumer unit by the meter box as my main unit is in the middle of the house.

[@adsheff]

@@greigs9384 thanks. Any idea the unit by itself? I think these things are way overpriced for what is essentially a socket. The Podpoint I have at home was over £700, it has all these smart features, WiFi etc that I never use because the cars have all that built in anyway. They should be as cheap as an outdoor socket imho

[@greigs9384]

@@adsheff not certain, but I seem to remember the sparks mentioning £750 for the 22kw one, so I’m guessing 500-600 for my 7kw one.

[@alexbuckley6186]

I've booked to get an Easee One installed at my new house soon, very much looking forward to it 🙂

[@arjunsamuel]

Brilliant video as always. Easee will be amazing when they work with the Eddie, solar etc.

[@Bennie32831]

Sweet 😀

[@salipander6570]

The unlock feature could be triggered by recognizing the MAC address of the EV attached. This makes the need to unlock via the app obsolete, which makes comfort even higher.

The communication on Type 2 is very primitive, just a pulse width modulated signal with different voltage levels.

[@maurice3590]

This is great sounds like a good product for the futur! Does this decive also support VtL or VtG, meaning could it recive power from your car and balance the home? That would make it the ultimat charger i guess...

[@alexanderpetterson7625]

I have had mine for two and a half year. It is great! We were promised a local API for years but still there is none. That sucks!

[@protoearth]

“Yes, appsolutely”

[@greigs9384]

I’ve got one. Great little Scandinavian made unit.

[@greigs9384]

Sorry, it’s a charging robot!

[@mrmawson2438]

👌

[@charlesashurst1816]

Who has the energy has the power.

[@sanderdebleecker8270]

Would be a great options once they support PV integration on their load balancer

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

Just a matter of using the API for third party software to do whatever you want. It I'd better to integrate Easee to a system through API, than to expect them to support every solutions and possible setups.

[@keithnewton8981]

Sorry but what special about that my pod point is the same flap down cable in charging no waiting fir beeps light goes from blue to green .

[@quackcement]

Unfortunately it doesnt come with cable and the lightweight plastic design unit cant support the weight of the cable wrapped around it so you need to buy seperate hoist too.

[@simhedgesrex7097]

You could do with a show specifically about car chargers working with flats. I want my flats to install charging, but this solution didn't say if Easee could handle the charging to individual (does it at all?), we didn't find out the cost of installation, or any special works to bump up the electricity supply, or how the landlord makes back the installation costs.

[@samrawson8763]

You just pair the Easee chargers with Monta backend - Monta can collect the payment from residents and distribute it to the landlord.

[@simhedgesrex7097]

@@samrawson8763 Thank you!

[@gap9992]

When it can automatically use my spare solar, varying it in real time then i might be interested. Otherwise it doesn't seem to do anything my Chargemaster unit can't do

[@rowanditcham9617]

Can the chargers be used for electric forklifts, golf carts, material handling equipment?

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

If vehicles are designed to be charged from a type-2 station, there is no issue. If vehicles are designed to charge from standard 1-phase or 3-phase sockets, you need an adapter, or special cable. The station will not be able to control the charging rate for load balance, except on/off. They will however be able to read the power consumption for each station, to understand if it is done and possibly cycle through on a timer, until all vehicles are fully charged.

[@danielebrahim2336]

Is this better than the hypervolt?

[@Richardincancale]

Nice having different colours - but does it have built-in PEN fault detection and a Type-A RCD, or will these be extras the consumer needs to factor in as they’re required in UK installations?

[@Stianien]

Yes the Easee One for domestic use has all that built in :)

[@dot7107]

What is pen fault?

[@Richardincancale]

@@dot7107 Type ‘pen fault’ in KZbin search and you’ll find videos on the subject. It’s an electricity network problem where the neutral conductor is broken causing the earth to carry current instead. Touching a metal part outdoors (like a connected car) could result in electric shock or electrocution

[@simonyip168]

I've just had one installed through work. The video mentions you can "lock " it to prevent other people hijacking it and using it without permission. Does anyone know how lock it down.? Thanks in advance.

[@johndebank93]

Yes , just change the “Access” setting on the robot interface from open to “key only”. You can also set it up to only start charging when presented with an RFID tag as well if you want more options that are still secure

[@waynecartwright7276]

can you do one with duel outlets for 2 cars that will balance load

[@MrStaffonly]

The Norwegian version of Easee Home (with up to 22kW charging) can share the fuse and circuit with up to 3 charge stations. And load balancing to the main fuse by the Easee Equalizer. I am not sure if the same is true for the UK version.

[@fred27murphy]

@@MrStaffonly I've only got one, but I believe multiple chargers can be set to work together to limit their combined current draw.

[@David-bl1bt]

If they don't do a box with 2 outlets then I'm guessing that you could fit 2 of these to the same supply and they would intelligently balance the load? That facility is implied in the video.

[@PetrusB83]

Nice, but if you have solar I still think the Zappi is the way to go.

[@barriepotter3753]

Are they 2-way charging capable? And how much us the tariff on the SIM card?

[@thomasj1148]

It comes with free 4g e-sim for life I heard. I’m getting one soon, no wifi as too far away. Doubt it’s two way.

[@rhydlew]

It may be an excellent product but the marketing BS is painful. This is what happens when people call a chargepoint a "charger". Then we get claims like "it's full of power" "it adapts to different cars" "it provides max power". Nah its an EVSE, it connects a circuit in your home, to a device on your car...called a charger. It is nothing more than a safety switch to activate a type2 connector, just like all other EVSEs

[@tristramcharnley2581]

Any plans for bidirectional?

[@MrStaffonly]

You need a standard for bidirectional AC first

[@benpaynter]

Looks a good product. The only thing I don't get and this goes for all charger brands.......where is the V2G (or at least vehicle to home) compatibility????. It just seems such a huge opportunity and yet charger and vehicle manufacturers are largely ignoring it. As the numbers of EV's rises, the ability to use them as static storage for either grid balancing or running homes will be truely game changing yet it doesn't seem to be a priority.

[@Krydolph]

You should really make sure to declare when you are making a sponsored video! This was nothing but one long add

[@marc0523]

Will it still function without cloud access? I need systems that don't break the second the internet goes down.

[@rossadamdixon]

It comes with a 4g connection for free so if your WiFi doesn't work or won't reach the unit it can still service the cloud part.

[@marc0523]

@@rossadamdixon Thats helpful, but I’m also worried about their services going down, and me being stuck unable to charge. The “smart” stuff doesn’t need to work, but if they have an attack which knocks everything offline for 3 days, I still need to be able to charge.

[@Orbit353]

It will also work when offline, but defaulting to a power level (that you can configure when online). Load balancing across multiple chargers will not work. If you have set it up to only start with authorized RFIDs, it will in offline mode change to accept any RFID presented.

[@adsheff]

Their website doesn't even tell you how much it costs!

[@Gaja9314]

Does this support V2G?

[@KMLiew]

The Equaliser.....

[@TheDarrenJones]

Just taken the "4-5 minutes" to fill in the survey for an installation quote. Took me 25 - pictures of all sorts needed, site won't let you skip anything that's irrelevant or add text information (such as I'm currently having my incoming supply fuse upgraded by my DNO, so the image of the current one is meaningless, tails being upgraded too). And sending a link via SMS seems shady as well - I have a feeling there's a lot of data collection going on, and that I'll be getting junk mail as a result of this. Not impressed.

[@alanrobinson2229]

Norway, Country of extremes. Great adoption of green tech Great exporter of fossil fuel,making them rich,so they can afford to keep their country clean and green.

[@xvdd1]

This unit stops working if your input goes above 253 volts unlike every other appliance in your house it does not have enough voltage tolerance this maybe the case with all EV chargers but this is the only one I have so cannot comment on others but DNO's have a difficult job trying to balance the voltage supplies for EV chargers, so I would suggest check your incoming voltage and it's stability before fitting these expensive devices this will determine when and how long they can be used as cheaper off peak tariffs may not fall into a EV charge points operating periods.

[@MyMednas]

If your voltage is outside 216 to 253 volts, there is a problem your DNO needs to sort out. Easee can adjust this setting remotely, but it's not really a good idea.

[@xvdd1]

@@MyMednas I know they are due to collect the voltage data logger tomorrow to prove the over voltage but the 2 DNO guys I have spoken to have not sounded particularly positive about correcting it and apparently they are short staffed so if and when maybe the response, I have my fingers crossed though.

[@johndebank93]

I believe those may be the limits for a PEN fault detection - so it’s not a fault with the device. The device sees the over and under volt as a possible danger and disconnects from the supply

[@proomster]

Price?

[@rossadamdixon]

Mine was around 650 700 for the unit.

[@Bennie32831]

@@rossadamdixon thanks for the feedback witch county are you in ?

[@rossadamdixon]

@@Bennie32831 apologies that was not very helpful £650 to £700. So UK. I think there would be some installation charges etc. It cost us £2500 total but we were running a 40m cable and had to get contractors to life slabs and dig a trench. But the unit is about £650 ish. For a standard install I wouldn't expect it to be more than £1000

[@reubenwilkinson6493]

Mine was 769 installed - in Kent / Uk via We Power Your Car. That had £350 off due to grant which I think is now cancelled so probably 1200£ ish now. That didn’t include the cable from charger to car

[@markgayle5453]

The flaps are so crap. I looked at them & I mentioned it to wholesaler who said they sell spare flaps. That says it all. Cheapo.

[@suchdevelopments]

🌏How are you on this sunny evening in Goonellabah on North Coast NSW? 🌏 The Team and I 🌏Fully Charged LIVE-Sydney🌏 11th to 12th March 2023. I will be there in Sydney. We promoted the project on the film on stand team taking a project and future projects. When the charger comes to 🌏Australia🌏. We will have 250 prefabricated 🏠CLT & SIPform🏠 passive house-certified homes. On the roofs of buildings, the ⚡Tractile,⚡ the excess electricity will be stored in the 28.8MW ☀Tesla Batteries Farm. ☀

[@EVunedited]

They just copied the Tesla wall connector in many areas 😅

[@kinkong1961]

I must say how small it is and it fits on my garage wall a street the fitters were very good I designed for where I wanted the cable to go and they stuck to it except one part they gave me better advice which I thought was very smart so we did that part there a way I've had it since June all I need now is a car to plug it into which has been on order since october1s7 last year so any time now, who knows I haven't a clue no one is keeping me informed don't go salantis they are terrible at the organization even the CEO wasn't fond of going the ev way if only he had said that before I ordered my Vauxhall mokka ultimate as I would have gone another route, but here we are ev carless booo hooo. lol.

[@nigelbullock4411]

If EVs are as good and convenient as the makers claim why do the Government have to make them compulsory from 2030.

[@darrenbarson3828]

Web site says the survey to get a quote will take 5 minutes! What a load of rubbish. It took me over half an hour with the constant requests for photos, including going back to my electric meter at least three times for different pictures. The web site is completely misleading and definitely not Easee in any way whatsoever!!

[@nickkacures2304]

This would be perfect for small businesses and homeowners to kill off Petrol ⛽️/gas stations and end range anxiety for electric vehicles we could have 100 X times maybe 1000X as many places to charge a vehicle as you get with gas stations and fossil foooooled vehicles the internal combustion engine is dead

[@kennshearer526]

No doubt this is a “clever” device but in reality it does little more than my 6 year old charger which I plug in to the car and it charges. I certainly will not be buying a new charger until it is able to take power from my car to run my house.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

The EV with it's huge battery (much bigger than the Tesla home 14kwh) should be connected to the grid 24/7. The self parking EV should 'nuzzle' onto a wall plug at every parking spot and stabilise the grid and trade energy for money. For example in Australia 20million vehicles and 20million buildings and if all connected to the grid, and with rooftop solar pv, none of the fossil fueled power plants are needed. Fossil fueled is 600Gwh, max 24hrs in theory. This renewable above is 660Gwh daily. The total EV storage is 2,000Gwh. The existing power grid is perfect. Somebody do the maths, it's lonely out here. Hahaha Hahaha Hahaha 😆 And every EV battery can be fully topped up ready for the long drive. Daily drives are tiny 7kwh. Now add wind renewable energy and existing nuclear and a few big batteries or community batteries and commercial community batteries to provide rapid charging. The world will follow because it is cheap energy daily and most national grids do not need to be expanded. $TRILLIONS saved. Decades saved.

[@mikedennington8856]

Problem is it takes SO long to charge an EV and leads to rage with users waiting. They must go to fast charging in all chargers.

[@returner323617]

Bollocks. In a domestic setting (that’s “home” to you), sentient beings charge overnight, using off-peak tariffs that are about 20% of peak-time; so in a 4-hour session you can add 28kWk+, and this equates to >100 miles of range. Is your daily commute more than 100 miles..? If so, get the 3-phase version, and potentially triple those numbers. I’d say it’s a no-brainer, but that’s obviously expecting too much of some people.

[@roygardiner4002]

This doesn't do any more than the HyperVolt charger which is MADE in BRITAIN.

[@nononoathousandtimesno8191]

Why are people watching this rip off of another channel. This one is just republishing old content from ‘fully charged’

[@andymccabe6712]

Er.......