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SolarEdge EV Charger Reviews

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Finn's SolarEdge EV Chargers Review & Verdict

Finn Peacock has been a Chartered Electrical Engineer since 1998, and is ex-CSIRO

SolarEdge is a big company in the solar world. If you've got a SolarEdge inverter, get a SolarEdge EV Charger. It's a no-brainer. They can talk to each other out of the box and that will make your life easier. 

SolarEdge EV Chargers: Pros & Cons

  • Part of a quality ecosystem
  • Good integration including dynamic solar harvesting
  • Not seamless with all EVs. For example, currently there are issues with Tesla Model Y, awaiting a firmware update
  • Original Home charger not OCPP compatible

About SolarEdge

SolarEdge is a large solar inverter manufacturing company with headquarters in Israel. One of their solar inverters is for single-phase residential use and has a built-in EV charger but this page is about the stand alone SolarEdge devices.

SolarEdge Home EV Charger

The stand-out feature of the SolarEdge Home EV Charger is that it's smart. This means it can be set to charge a car with only surplus solar energy that otherwise would have been sent into the grid for a feed-in tariff. But to take advantage of this feature it will need to be paired with a SolarEdge inverter.

It's a single-phase charger. As most homes only have single-phase power, this is usually not a drawback.  If you have 3-phase power you can still install a single-phase EV charger.  It supplies up to 7.4 kilowatts (kW) of power.

When combined with a SolarEdge inverter and energy meter, the EV charger can use only surplus solar to charge your car. This allows for low-cost charging with clean energy. The effective cost per kWh will be equal to your solar feed-in tariff.

The SolarEdge ONE

The ONE, which supersedes the Home, became available in Australia in late 2025.

Aside from a new look, the SolarEdge ONE EV Charger supports both single-phase and three-phase connections and output is configurable (up to 7.4kW single-phase or 22kW 3-phase). It has automatic switching built-in; whereas the Home only supports single-phase. The ONE also offers OCPP 1.6J support and has a built-in meter, which the Home doesn’t.

With snap-on wall mounting and multiple cable entry points, SolarEdge says installation of the ONE is faster, simpler and more flexible.

Charging Times

At full 7.4kW output on single phase, with typical losses,these devices can fully charge a flat 50kWh battery in around 7.5 hours. The average car is driven less than 40km a day, so a daily average of under one hour of charging is all that's required to keep the typical EV topped up.

Smart

When combined with a SolarEdge inverter and energy meter, the EV charger can use only surplus solar to charge your car. This allows for low-cost charging with clean energy. The effective cost per kWh will be equal to your solar feed-in tariff.

Installation Location

Like almost all EV chargers, SolarEdge's can be installed indoors or outdoors. It's made to be wall mounted but can also be placed on a pole.

Cable Length

 At 7.6m, the cable for the Home was longer than most. This extra length is convenient if the vehicle you want to charge is behind one parked in front of the charger.

The One offers socket or tethered (with cable lock option) cable options, offering more flexibility on lengths.

Warranty Length

Its warranty is only three years. While not long, it's still better than 2 years some EV chargers have. I don't know why the warranty is so short when SolarEdge is happy to give their inverter that has a built in EV charger a 12 year warranty.  But what gets my goat is SolarEdge sells an identical looking EV charger in the US with a 5-year warranty. This makes me feel as though we're being short-changed Down Under.

Cost

We've seen the SolarEdge ONE advertised on a vendor site for $1,265.00.  Installation will add considerably to the cost.  While a basic EV charger installation may only cost a few hundred dollars, a SolarEdge EV Charger installation will usually involve setting it up to communicate with a SolarEdge inverter and this makes it more complicated.  You are likely to be charged over $800 for installation and it could be considerably more. 

If you want to check out the SolarEdge EV Charger's tech specs and compare it to others on the market, check out the SolarQuotes EV Charger Comparison Table.

While the warranty isn't long given its price, SolarEdge generally makes reliable products, so I would expect -- or at least hope -- that it will last well beyond the end of its warranty. If you have a SolarEdge inverter and energy meter or intend to get them, then a SolarEdge EV charger is definitely worth considering, so long as it's within your budget.

Because SolarEdge makes inverters and batteries we're happy to recommend, we're currently happy to recommend their EV charger, despite not yet having information on how they perform long term.

If you've purchased a SolarEdge EV charger and would like to leave a review, we'll be glad to have the extra information.
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SolarEdge, integrated EV charger that allows for Charging up to 7kW on excess solar, so now costing us nothing to charge our EV. It works seamlessly with the SolarEdge HomeHub, and has a 7.6M cable, so I can park the car wherever I want in the garage and can still charge it. Awesome!

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Springers Solar

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ECG Electrical ACT - Southern NSW

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Lenergy NSW
This charger has reduced my charging time significantly

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Direct Solar Wholesaler Energy Group
Fantastic for using excess solar and easy to use app to override if needed.

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Connect Solar WA GC

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Exceed Solar Adelaide
I think it will work well once I can see it in the SolarEdge management application. I need to be able to schedule the charging time and also have it charge using excess solar etc.

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Lightning Energy Melbourne
Great, but I need to unplug using my app for Tesla, It is slightly inconvenient

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Smart Energy Answers Melbourne Metro South

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Smart Energy Answers Hornsby - Ryde
Buyers need to be aware that the charger only comes with a universal connector. Other shaped adaptors need to be purchased by the buyer. Also, SolarEdge charges extra for the charger to talk to the Genesis inverter, which is totally bizarre.

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Photonic Solar Solutions Pty Ltd

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Select Electrical and Solar Solutions Pty Ltd
Able to just use solar energy to charge the EV! Great!

Would have liked it to be able to charge at the full 7kW but unfortunately maxes out at 5kW...

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Soltek Energy

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OBrien Electrical and Solar North Lakes
EV charger communicates with inverter and can be set to only charge the car when there is excess solar that would otherwise be exported to the grid.

Easy to use.

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Solar Wholesalers
Been using it for a week now, all is good.
Good that you can see the ev charger in the SolarEdge app, & schedule charging when we want to charge.
(We have a SolarEdge hybrid inverter so it all comes together well)
This has been no end of trouble. Firstly Solar edge told my installer it could work as a smart charger with my existing SolaEdge HD Wave inverter. Turned out not true - we needed an additional Solar edge smart meter. Thai then didn't work - said to be a faulty CD. That was switched out. Then SolarEdge charger just behaved weirdly. The app said it was waiting for excess solar when there was 4.5kW of the roof and 3.5kW being escorted to grid. Finally it just went blank, solutions as mysterious 1.25kW to the car. I had to just kill the power to it in the end to allow me to unplug it at all. Going to ask the installer to remove it and fit a different charger.
No issues thus far and working well
Charger works well and is rated for outdoor use. I lIke that it has a long charging cable, able to reach a car parked in the driveway.
Provided clear advice, quick quote. Were responsive to follow up queries. Installed the charger when arranged. Great customer service. Charger easy to use via app.
Works well with the SolarEdge app that I have for my solar system of the same brand.

Can be set to use excess solar only or to charge from the grid.
The charger is a component of an integrated SolarEdge system - inverter, battery and charger.
The charger is a good fit with my solaredge inverter and allows me sufficient control and monitoring ability. Importantly, I am able to ensure the house battery does not drain when I am charging the car.

There is a simple to use app and good alignment through the app between inverter functions and car charging functions.
I had a SolarEdge EV charger installed at the end of April 2023 to add to my existing SolarEdge inverter. Up to that point I had been very happy with the inverter, which has been reliable since installation in early 2022, and the SolarEdge app which has great functionality.

Although it was quite expensive, I wanted to have an EV charger that integrated into the inverter and the SolarEdge app, so I could charge my Model Y from excess solar energy whenever possible.

My installer did a great job and have been very helpful, but from the start the SolarEdge 'solar excess' charging feature didn't work properly.

After several emails back and forth in May and June, between the myself, the installer and SolarEdge AU, I was told there was an issue specifically affecting Tesla Model Y's which means the solar excess feature didn't work, and a future SolarEdge firmware update would be released to fix the issue.

As this was over winter, with little excess solar, it wasn't a major issue. The SolarEdge EV charger worked well in normal mode, and the integration with the app is very good.

After waiting several months however, the SolarEdge firmware update was still not available as of September 2023 (as I write this review), but by luck Tesla updated their car software in August which seemed to resolve the problem.

To their credit, my installer offered to swap the charger for a Zappi charger at no cost to me back in May, either as a permanent replacement, or until SolarEdge released the firmware.

I didn't take this up at the time as it seemed a little unfair to burden them with this cost when it's not their fault, and I would have preferred for SolarEdge to release the firmware update.

Now that the whole thing is working properly, I'm pretty happy overall. Time will tell if it's worth paying a premium for SolarEdge, which I hope translates to reliability and longevity. The 'Solar Excess' mode works well and the app integration is good, however the responsiveness from SolarEdge AU was mediocre. They did get back to me promptly, but couldn't really do much to fix the issue, which is probably because the firmware is produced elsewhere and the local AU team have no ability to influence this.

In hindsight, I should have had the EV charger installed at the same time as the inverter, as this would have saved me some money on installation costs.

Knowing that I am charging my EV using my own excess solar is very cool, and watching it all happen on a single, integrated, slick app is great. I'm not totally sure that this is worth the premium over a dumb charger, but it's too late to have regrets now! :-)
Great unit and has the smarts I need to maximise my solar
Seems easy to use and integrates with my SolarEdge application seamlessly.
I got a SolarEdge 7kw EV charger with a 10.6 kW SolarEdge inverter with Jinko panels.
We chose the Solaredge charger as we already have a Solaredge inverter and plan to primarily charge using excess solar production. After installation, the excess solar feature is not working. Solaredge support are diagnosing the issue and hopefully they'll be able to resolve it soon.
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