Research profile · last verified 2026-08-04

Enphase IQ EV Charger 2

Compiled by SmartHomeWorkflow Research · Enphase · Energy, Solar & EV · ~$999 ($999 is the entry point, not the price — this is a six-model line and the spread across it is the widest in this subcategory. Enphase's own store, read 2026-08-04, prices every model: $999.00 for the 40 A NEMA 14-50 plug model (up to 9.6 kW, J1772); $1,124.00 for the 48 A hardwired model in either connector (J1772 up to 11.5 kW, NACS up to 13.3 kW on 277 V); $2,124.00 for the 64 A model (up to 17.7 kW); and $2,374.00 for the 80 A model (up to 22.1 kW). The two higher-current models add a cellular radio alongside Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which is most of what the jump buys. RECORDED AS $999 — the lowest price at which Enphase will sell you this charger on its own store — following this catalogue's convention of taking the vendor's own floor rather than an average. Two things a buyer should know about that number. It was $899.00 on the day this record was written, marked 'Limited time offer—Save 10% now'; a promotional price is a moment rather than a fact, so this record carries the standing $999 and tells you the discount existed rather than quietly baking it in. And the two fastest models were both showing 'Out of stock' at the same reading, so the top of this ladder is priced but not necessarily available. Costs beyond the box: only the $999 model plugs in, and Enphase's own specification for it is a prewired NEMA 14-50 whip — every other model in the line is hardwired 240 V work. And the federal help most published advice still assumes is gone; the 30C credit covered property placed in service 'from January 1, 2023, to June 30, 2026' per the IRS's own page, re-read 2026-08-04.)

Exactly which product this is^[1][2][3][4]

Model number: Not established
Generation: Not established
Region this page covers: US
Also sold or listed as: Enphase IQ EV Charger 2 · IQ EV Charger 2 · IQ-EVSE-NA-1050-0110-1120 · IQ-EVSE-NA-1060-0100-1120 · IQ-EVSE-NA-1060-0101-1120 · IQ-EVSE-NA-1060-0100-1420 · IQ-EVSE-NA-1080-0100-1420 · IQ-EVSE-NA-1100-0100-1420

“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.

Compatibility

Ecosystem	Support	The catch
Apple Home	InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why^[1][5]	Unknown, on silence rather than on a shortage of looking. Five first-party Enphase surfaces were read in full — the homeowner page, four store listings and the datasheet — and Apple Home, HomeKit and Siri appear on none of them. Enphase documents exactly one consumer control surface, its own app. Recorded unknown rather than none, because an omission is silence and not a denial. No standards route exists around the silence either: Enphase holds no Matter certificate — a CSA-IoT keyword search returns 'No Entries Found', control-tested against a known positive on the same endpoint and re-run under a second search term — and Apple Home has no EV-charger device type in the first place. One thing worth separating out, because it sounds like an integration and is not: this charger speaks OCPP, the open protocol used by charging-network operators. That makes it addressable by third-party charging software; it does nothing for Apple Home.
Amazon Alexa	InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why^[1]	Unknown. Alexa is named nowhere across the five Enphase surfaces read — no skill, no command list, no setup guide. Recorded unknown rather than none: Enphase has not published a position, it has published nothing. The comparison inside this subcategory is instructive about what each vendor chose to document rather than about how hard anyone looked: ChargePoint's support page carries a six-command Alexa list and an outright statement about Google, while Emporia states in writing that voice assistants get only basic on/off. Enphase says neither. No Matter certificate exists under the brand to supply a route around the absence — checked twice under differently-constructed search terms against a live control — and Alexa has no EV-charger device type regardless, so even a certificate would deliver this as a generic device.
Google Home	InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why^[1][5]	Unknown. Google Home is named on none of the five Enphase surfaces read. Recorded unknown rather than none — the distinction matters here, because the ChargePoint record in this same subcategory reads 'none' for Google on the strength of a vendor sentence saying so, and Enphase has written no such sentence for any platform. There is no Matter certificate under the Enphase name to open a route around the silence, checked under two differently-constructed search terms with a live control. And Google Home carries no EV-charger device type, so a charger arriving by any route would present as a generic device rather than as a charger.
SmartThings	InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why^[1][5]	Unknown. Neither side documents this pairing: SmartThings appears on no Enphase surface read, and no Samsung-side documentation naming this charger was located. This is the cell where the missing Matter certificate costs the most in principle, because SmartThings is the one major platform that lists EVSE among the Matter device types it supports — the single place where a certified charger could appear as a charger rather than as a switch. Enphase holds no such certificate: a CSA-IoT keyword search for 'Enphase' returns 'No Entries Found', and a second search under 'Enphase Energy' returns no Enphase-branded entry either, both validated against a known positive on the same endpoint in the same session.
Home Assistant	InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why^[1][7]	Unknown, and this cell needs its reasoning spelled out because a superficial check would get it wrong in the generous direction. Home Assistant DOES ship a core Enphase integration — enphase_envoy — so a search for 'Enphase' on Home Assistant's site returns a real, maintained, local-polling integration and it is tempting to read that across to this product. It does not read across. That integration documents the Envoy gateway, IQ Combiner products, microinverters, IQ batteries, the Enpower off-grid switch, the IQ Meter Collar and the C6 Combiner Controller; the only occurrence of 'EVSE' in it is a current-transformer type named 'Combiner to EV', which measures a charger's draw rather than controlling a charger. No EV-charger entity, device or control is documented. So the honest position is that Home Assistant supports Enphase's solar hardware and says nothing about this charger — recorded unknown, on an absence of documentation from both sides, and Enphase names Home Assistant nowhere either. One route exists that this record notes without claiming: the charger speaks OCPP, and OCPP-speaking chargers can generally be driven by community software distributed outside Home Assistant core. Community integrations are not visible to this check and are outside what this record verifies, so that is a lead for a reader rather than a supported path.

? Inconclusive means we researched that ecosystem and the evidence doesn’t settle it — the catch says why, and the sources are listed below. It is a statement about the available evidence, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check researches your exact setup where the official sources don’t answer.

Protocols: WIFI · BLUETOOTH · ETHERNET · CELLULAR^{[2][3][5][10][12]}

Needs before it works: No hub, and — importantly for a company best known for solar — no Enphase solar system either. The charger is a standalone Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Ethernet device managed through the Enphase App, and its own datasheet promises 'Seamless integration with any third-party PV system', which is Enphase stating in writing that its headline solar-tracking feature is not gated behind Enphase microinverters. That is unusual enough in this industry to be the main reason a non-Enphase household would consider this charger at all. What IS required is an Enphase account: the app is the control and authentication surface, and the datasheet lists access control as 'App/RFID'. Two connectivity details worth planning around. Ethernet is available on every model, which is rare in this subcategory and useful in a garage with poor Wi-Fi. And the 64 A and 80 A models add cellular, so those two can stay connected without touching your home network at all — Enphase does not state who pays for that connectivity or for how long, and this record does not assume.^[1][3][8]

What it can do^[3]

You can tell it to

Start/stop
Energy monitoring

It reports

Energy reading

Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.

Subscription reality^[1][8]

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.

No subscription, plan or fee appears on any Enphase surface read for this charger — not on the homeowner page, not on any of the four store listings, and not in the datasheet. Recorded as 'none' on that basis, with coreFunctionWithoutPlan deliberately 'unknown' rather than 'full', because this is an absence of any mention of paid tiers rather than a vendor statement that everything is included. An Enphase account is mandatory in practice: the Enphase App is the documented management surface, access control is app- or RFID-based, and the app requires sign-in. ONE OPEN QUESTION THIS RECORD DELIBERATELY LEAVES OPEN RATHER THAN ANSWERING: the 64 A and 80 A models carry a cellular radio, and cellular connectivity normally implies a data plan somewhere. Enphase publishes nothing about who provides it, who pays for it, or whether it lapses. Rather than assume it is free for life or assume it is a hidden fee, this record flags it as the thing to ask before buying either of those two models.

Maintenance reality^[1][3][4]

Works without the internet: No — the core function depends on the vendor's servers, so an outage takes it with them.^[1]
Enphase publishes this charger's electrical detail more completely than any other vendor in this subcategory, and the model-by-model differences are the whole story. From the datasheet: operating voltage 208/240 VAC on the 40 A and 48 A J1772 models and 208/240/277 VAC on the NACS and the two high-current models; rated output current 6–40 A, 6–48 A, 6–64 A or 6–80 A by model; maximum charging power configurable up to 9.6, 11.5, 13.2 (at 277 V), 17.7 or 22.1 kW; a 25 ft cable throughout; a NEMA 4 enclosure; an operating range of −40℉ to 131℉; rear or bottom cable entry; wall or pedestal mounting; and a field-replaceable connector cable, which is a genuinely uncommon serviceability feature — the cable is usually the first thing to fail on a hard-used charger and usually not replaceable. Only the $999 model plugs in, with a prewired NEMA 14-50 whip of about 33 inches at 8 AWG; everything else is hardwired. Connectors are Type 1 (J1772) or NACS (J3400) depending on model. Warranty is 5 years. THE OPENNESS STORY IS THE MOST INTERESTING TECHNICAL FACT HERE AND ALSO THE MOST EASILY MISREAD: the datasheet states the charger 'seamlessly connects with third-party energy management systems and charging station management systems (CSMS) via custom APIs and OCPP'. OCPP is the open standard that public-charging networks speak, and its presence means this hardware is designed to be driven by software Enphase did not write. What it is NOT is a consumer smart-home integration — OCPP is not Matter, it will not put this charger in the Alexa app, and this record does not treat one as evidence of the other. ENERGY STAR IS VERIFIED AT THE REGULATOR RATHER THAN REPEATED FROM THE VENDOR, and the tie holds: the EPA's dataset lists partner 'Enphase Energy, Inc.', model name 'IQ EV Charger 2', 80.00 A at 240 V for a maximum 19.2 kW, a 25 ft cord at 6 AWG, network capability over 'Wi-Fi or Gigabit Ethernet,Cellular', auxiliary features 'Radio Frequency Identification (RFID),Revenue Grade Meter', qualified 2026-03-02 — and its model-number field lists the same six SKUs the store sells, which is what matches the certificate to the products on sale rather than to a stablemate. UL is a vendor-attributed claim: the datasheet cites 'NEMA 4-rated enclosure and UL certification', and UL's own registry was not queried in this session, so that half stands as Enphase's word. cloudDependent is true — the app is the documented management surface and no local control API is published for homeowners.
Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Enphase publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.

The catch

The headline number is $999 and most buyers will not pay it: that is the 40 A plug-in model, and the line runs $999, $1,124, $2,124 and $2,374 as you climb from 40 A to 80 A. Decide which current you actually need before comparing this against anything, because at the top of the ladder this is more than four times the price of the cheapest charger in this catalogue. Second, only the $999 model plugs in. Everything above it is hardwired 240 V work with an electrician attached, and the 30C federal credit that used to offset that expired for property placed in service after 2026-06-30 per the IRS's own page. Third — and this is the reason to consider this charger at all — Enphase states in its own datasheet that the solar-tracking feature works with 'any third-party PV system', so the marquee capability is not gated behind owning Enphase microinverters. It tracks solar every 30 seconds and regulates current in 1 A increments, and its dynamic load balancing is pitched explicitly at avoiding a main-panel upgrade. If you have solar from anyone and a panel with no headroom, that is a genuinely different proposition from the rest of this subcategory. Fourth, the smart-home answer is a blank. Across five first-party surfaces — homeowner page, four store listings and the datasheet — Alexa, Google Home, Apple Home, HomeKit, Siri and SmartThings are named zero times, and there is no Matter certificate to open a route around that, checked twice under different search terms against a live control. Every platform cell here reads unknown, which means Enphase has not said no; it has said nothing. Fifth, do not let the existence of Home Assistant's Enphase integration mislead you: it covers the Envoy and the solar and battery hardware, documents no EV-charger entity at all, and its only EV reference is a current-transformer type that measures a charger rather than controlling one. Sixth, the charger does speak OCPP and offers a custom API, which is real openness — it means charging-network and energy-management software can drive it — but OCPP is a fleet-and-network protocol, not a smart-home one, and it will not put this charger in a voice assistant. Seventh, the two fastest models carry a cellular radio and Enphase publishes nothing about who pays for that data or for how long; ask before buying. Eighth, availability is genuinely uneven for a product this new: at the reading behind this record the 64 A and 80 A models were out of stock and the 13.3 kW NACS model quoted a forward shipping date. Finally, two things verified rather than taken on trust. The ENERGY STAR claim is real and it is tied to these exact products, because the EPA certificate's model-number field lists the same six SKUs the store sells — the identity link that the Tesla record in this same subcategory could not make. And a direct query of CPSC's recall database returned no recall records for this manufacturer, on an endpoint proven live in the same session under two differently-constructed queries.

Who it's for

The clearest fit is a household with solar — from anybody — that wants the car charged from the roof rather than from the grid, because Enphase puts that in writing for third-party PV systems rather than reserving it for its own customers, and tracks production every 30 seconds at 1 A resolution. It is the obvious pick for an existing Enphase solar household, where the charger simply joins the system already in the app. It suits a home whose electrical panel has no room to spare: dynamic load balancing is pitched at exactly that, and the ability to configure current anywhere from 6 A upward means the hardware can be tuned to the circuit you have rather than the circuit you wish you had. It suits a garage with bad Wi-Fi better than anything else here, because every model takes Ethernet and the two fastest add cellular. And it suits someone who intends to keep a charger for a decade: five-year warranty, NEMA 4 enclosure, −40℉ to 131℉ rating, and a field-replaceable connector cable — the part most likely to wear out is the part you can replace. It is the wrong charger for a voice-controlled home. Alexa, Google Home and Apple Home are unmentioned by the vendor and unreachable by Matter, and if talking to your charger matters, the ChargePoint unit in this subcategory documents a real Alexa command set and this one documents nothing. It is the wrong charger for a Home Assistant household expecting the existing Enphase integration to cover it — that integration is about solar, not this. It is the wrong charger for a renter or anyone avoiding an electrician, unless the single 40 A plug-in model fits. And it is the wrong charger for a buyer optimising on price: the cheapest model here costs more than twice the cheapest charger in this catalogue, and the case for paying it rests entirely on solar tracking, load balancing and build quality rather than on smart-home capability.

Sources & method

Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →

[1] Enphase, IQ EV Charger 2 (homeowners) — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-04
Backs: Product identity, Required hub or bridge, Maintenance, App platforms, Market availability, Service status, Subscription, Works without the internet, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, Google Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility, Home Assistant compatibility
[2] Enphase store, IQ EV Charger 2 model listings — vendor-store research (browser-rendered read; prices render client-side), verified 2026-08-04
Backs: Price, Product identity, Protocols, Power source, Installation, Market availability
[3] Enphase, IQ EV Charger 2 datasheet (North America), DSH-00847-3.0-EN-2025-11-19 — vendor-document research, verified 2026-08-04
Backs: Maintenance, Protocols, Product identity, Installation, Capabilities, Required hub or bridge
[4] US EPA, ENERGY STAR Certified Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment — AC-Output (open dataset 5jwe-c8xm) — regulator-API research, verified 2026-08-04
Backs: Product identity, Maintenance, Market availability
[5] CSA-IoT certified products database, keyword search — registry research (control-tested, two search terms), verified 2026-08-04
Backs: Protocols, Apple Home compatibility, Google Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
[6] US Consumer Product Safety Commission, recall REST service — regulator-API research with control (two search terms), verified 2026-08-04
Backs: Service status
[7] Home Assistant, Enphase Envoy integration documentation — counterparty-source research (control-tested), verified 2026-08-04
Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
[8] Enphase, The Enphase App — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-04
Backs: App platforms, Subscription, Required hub or bridge
[9] US Internal Revenue Service, Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit — regulator-source research, verified 2026-08-04
Backs: Price
[10] Three Enphase surfaces, read 2026-08-09. (1) IQ EV Charger 2 datasheet, DSH-00847-3.0-EN-2025-11-19, PDF text-extracted: under 'Communication options (applicable to all models)' the wireless rows read 'Bluetooth' with footnote marker '1' and 'BT 5.3', alongside '2.4/5 GHz, Wi-Fi (802.11ax)'; the footnote block defines only '2 Certification in progress.' and '3 Typically available in residential configurations when integrated with Enphase PV systems or other PV systems via the Enphase IQ Gateway.' — marker 1 is undefined in the document. (2) enphase.com/homeowners/iq-ev-charger-2: connection options listed as 'Wi-Fi, LTE, Ethernet, Bluetooth, and CAN', no role stated. (3) Enphase support documents commissioning via the Enphase App or Enphase Installer App without naming a transport. — vendor-documentation research (first-party PDF manual, text-extracted), verified 2026-08-09
Backs: Protocols
[11] unrecorded — the migrated lifecycle.research stamp carried no source field — migrated hand stamp, verified 2026-08-04
Backs: Research status
[12] Matter Distributed Compliance Ledger, vendor registry (read 2026-08-22 via tools/dcl-lookup.mjs). Enphase does not appear under any name tried: 'enphase'. The DCL's vendor registry was enumerated to EXHAUSTION on 2026-08-22 via tools/dcl-lookup.mjs: substring queries were unioned until the distinct-VID count reached 833, which is the record count the tool itself reports scanning per query (the union of a/e/i/o/u/y reached 832; the last holdout was 'SLV GmbH', a vowel-free name, recovered by adding l/s/t). Every vendor in the ledger was therefore inspected, not searched for. — registry-lookup (DCL enumeration by vendor ID, with known-positive control), verified 2026-08-22
Backs: Protocols
[13] SmartHomeWorkflow record maintenance (BQ-244 absence-marker blast-radius repair) — internal-review, verified 2026-08-27

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