Product Library / Energy, Solar & EV

Protocols: WIFI · BLUETOOTH · ETHERNET · CELLULAR^{[3][4][6][12][13]}

Plans and ongoing costs^{[1][10][18][24][27]}

✓ 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: three of the hardwired models — a 48 A, a 64 A and an 80 A — come in cellular versions, 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 any of those three models.

Maintenance and offline use^[1][4][5]

• 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 maker in its category, 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 says the charger 'seamlessly connects with third-party energy management systems and charging station management systems (CSMS)' — through OCPP, the open language public charging networks speak, plus connections Enphase writes to order. 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 we do not treat one as evidence of the other. ENERGY STAR IS VERIFIED AT THE REGULATOR RATHER THAN REPEATED FROM THE MAKER, 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', extra features 'Radio Frequency Identification (RFID),Revenue Grade Meter', qualified 2026-03-02 — and its model-number field lists the same six versions the store sells, which is what matches the certificate to the products on sale rather than to a stablemate. UL is Enphase's own claim: the datasheet cites 'NEMA 4-rated enclosure and UL certification', and we have not checked it against UL's register. It depends on Enphase's servers — the app is the documented way to manage it, and nothing published gives a homeowner a way to control it from their own network.
• 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 we cover. 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' — but the same sheet says that with another brand's panels those solar features run through an Enphase IQ Gateway, so the marquee capability is not locked to Enphase solar and is not free of Enphase hardware either. It tracks solar every 30 seconds and adjusts current in 1 A steps, and its 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 the category. Fourth, the smart-home answer is a blank. Across five of Enphase's own pages — homeowner page, four store listings and the datasheet — Alexa, Google Home, Apple Home, HomeKit, Siri and SmartThings are named zero times, and we could not confirm a Matter certificate for Enphase that would open a route around that. Every platform 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 at all, and its only EV reference is a sensor type that measures a charger rather than controlling one. Sixth, the charger does speak OCPP and accepts connections Enphase writes to order, which is real openness — charging-network and energy-management software can drive it — but OCPP is a fleet-and-network language, not a smart-home one, and it will not put this charger in a voice assistant. Seventh, three of the hardwired models — a 48 A, a 64 A and an 80 A — come in cellular versions, 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: when we read the store, 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 tied to these exact products, because the EPA certificate's model-number field lists the same six versions the store sells — the identity link the Tesla record in this same category could not make. And a direct check of the federal recall database found no recalls for this manufacturer, on a database we confirmed was answering properly, under two differently-worded 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 — with another brand's panels that runs through an Enphase IQ Gateway, which is a second box to buy. It also fits 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 three of them — a 48 A, a 64 A and an 80 A — come in cellular versions. 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

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