Ohme ePod vs Ohme Home Pro

The Ohme ePod and Ohme Home Pro are essentially the same charger in two different bodies. Both deliver 7kW on a single phase, both carry native Intelligent Octopus Go integration that schedules charging at the cheapest times automatically, both are grant-eligible, and both come with a 3-year warranty. The whole decision comes down to £50 and whether you want a cable fixed to the wall.

Where the Ohme ePod wins

Price, first. At £949 installed the ePod undercuts the Home Pro’s £999 by £50, and its £409 unit price makes it one of the lower-cost OZEV-listed smart chargers if you’re pricing the hardware separately.

Then the body. The ePod is untethered and notably compact — with no fixed cable coiled on the wall, it’s the more discreet unit of the two. If your charger will be visible from the street, or you simply prefer a tidy wall, this is the one. The trade-off is that you plug in your own cable each time you charge.

Everything that makes Ohme worth buying — the deep smart-tariff integration, the automatic cheap-rate scheduling — is identical here. You give up nothing on the smarts by taking the cheaper unit.

Where the Ohme Home Pro wins

Convenience. The tethered 5m cable lives on the unit, so charging is a case of lifting the connector and plugging in — no fetching a lead from the boot in the rain.

It’s also the only one of the pair with a built-in screen, which shows charging status and cost at a glance without opening the app. If you like to see what a session is costing as it happens, that’s a daily-use difference rather than a spec-sheet one.

The cost of those two conveniences is £50 on the installed price and a bulkier presence on the wall — a fixed tethered cable is never as tidy as a socket-only unit.

The deciding factors

Price: £949 vs £999 installed — a £50 gap. Small enough that it shouldn’t override a genuine tether preference, big enough to break a tie.

Warranty: identical at 3 years each, so no help deciding here.

Tariff and solar fit: also identical. Both charge automatically at the cheapest times on Intelligent Octopus Go, and neither diverts excess solar — if you have PV panels and want to self-consume, look at a solar-diverting charger rather than either of these.

That leaves the one question Ohme deliberately leaves open: tethered or untethered? Pick the Home Pro if you plug in most days and value the always-ready cable and on-unit screen; pick the ePod if you want the smaller, cheaper unit and don’t mind handling your own cable.

Whichever way you go, find a home charger installer to get a quote for your wall.