EvoCharge Home 50 review: A capable charger left without a company

Most product reviews end with a simple yes-or-no verdict. This one comes with an asterisk.

EV charging expert and EnergySage partner Tom Moloughney put the EvoCharge Home 50 through his full battery of tests earlier this year and came away impressed. The 50-amp smart charger handled cold weather, heat, and a simulated power outage without a hitch, all while undercutting many competitors on price. It earned 78 out of 100 points on his ChargerRater system; not the highest score he’s ever given, but solid nevertheless. 

Then, a few months later, the EvoCharge company shut the business down entirely.

As of this article's posting, the charger is still available for purchase online. We'll walk through how the EvoCharge Home 50 performed in testing and what its shutdown means for your warranty and smart features.

The EvoCharge Home 50 is a second-generation, Wi-Fi-connected smart charger made in the USA. It's available with either a J1772 or NACS connector, and it's UL-listed and Energy Star certified.

EnergySage partnered with Tom Moloughney to evaluate the EvoCharge Home 50 using his ChargerRater, a 100-point system that grades home EV chargers across cost and value, power and construction, testing, and intelligence. 

The EvoCharge Home 50 earned 78 points, or 3.9 stars out of 5. It passed every test Tom threw at it, though a few smaller misses—like the lack of power sharing and a middling connector holster—kept it from scoring higher.

EvoCharge Home 50 vs. other popular home EV chargers

You want strong charging power at a competitive price

At $449, the EvoCharge Home 50 undercuts many 50-amp competitors while offering the same 12 kW of output as pricier options. The hardware delivers solid charging speed for less, and you may be able to find some decent discounts.

You live somewhere with real winters

The cold-weather cable performance is one of the clearest strengths here. If icy mornings and stiff, hard-to-coil cables are a concern, this is one of the better performers Tom has tested.

You care more about hardware than smart features

Tom's testing showed the EvoCharge Home 50 is a well-built charger; it has a flexible cold-weather cable and reliable performance under heat and power interruptions. If you mainly want a fast, dependable charger and don't lean heavily on app-based scheduling or remote monitoring, the core hardware holds up regardless of what's happening with the company behind it.

You want a company that stands behind its product

This is the big one. EvoCharge's parent company, Phillips & Temro, shut the EV charging business down in September 2025. That means the standard three-year warranty no longer has a manufacturer to enforce it.

You rely on the app for scheduling and monitoring

EvoCharge's smart features—scheduling, remote monitoring, energy tracking—originally ran through its own app. As part of the shutdown, EvoCharge arranged for Epic Charging to take over its charging software platform, offering a free app for existing residential customers so chargers wouldn't simply go dark. That's a reasonable outcome given the circumstances, but it also means you're depending on a third party you didn't originally choose to keep those features working. 

You want power sharing for multiple EVs

If you're planning to install more than one charger on a shared circuit—say, for two EVs in the same household—the EvoCharge Home 50 doesn't support power sharing. Competitors like the Emporia Pro and Grizzl-E Ultimate do.

The EvoCharge Home 50 is, on its own merits, a good charger. It charges fast, handles extreme weather with ease, and comes from a company that has 100 years of automotive manufacturing behind it. Tom's testing bears that out: It passed every test in his gauntlet and earned a respectable 3.9-star rating.

But "on its own merits" is doing some work in that sentence. EvoCharge no longer exists as a company, which means the warranty printed on the box isn't backed by anyone, and the smart features you'd expect from a connected charger now depend on a network migration you didn't sign up for. Buying hardware from a defunct company is always a bit of a gamble, even when the hardware itself is solid.

If you find one at a discount and mainly want a reliable, no-frills charger, the EvoCharge Home 50 can still get the job done. If you're prioritizing long-term support, an active app, or power sharing, you're better off looking at a brand that's still around to back its product. Either way, getting quotes from licensed electricians and checking for available incentives in your area is a smart step before you buy any home charger.