What this site is
EV & Charger is an independent guide to choosing and installing a Level 2 home EV charger in the United States. It covers 116 pages across six areas: which charger to buy, what your specific car will actually accept, what your electrical panel can deliver, the cables and adapters that make it fit, mounting it outdoors, and what it costs to run.
It exists because the advice available when we started was mostly written about chargers rather than about houses. Which charger has the longest spec sheet is a different question from which charger your car can use on the circuit your panel can spare — and the second question is the one that decides what you should buy.
What we don't do
We also do not run a test lab, and this is the claim we are most careful about. We verify published specifications against the manufacturer's own documentation and we date the verification on every page. We do not bench-test chargers, we have not installed every unit we recommend, and we will not write "in our testing" about hardware we have not tested. Our methodology says so in explicit terms, because a claim like that is the easiest thing in this field to fake and the easiest to check.
Who writes it
Every page on this site carries one byline: Mike M., the hands-on owner behind Iron Mako Media. He researches and maintains EV & Charger, verifying every charger specification against the manufacturer's own documentation and every electrical figure against the National Electrical Code before it is published, and re-checking the whole product roster quarterly.
One named human on every page is deliberate. Several of the sites competing for these searches publish under an "Editorial Team" label or carry no byline at all, which makes it impossible to know who is accountable for a number. If something here is wrong, there is one person to tell and one person to correct it.
What you will not find in that bio: an electrician's license, an engineering degree, a certification, an award, or a years-in-industry figure. Not because they would not help, but because inventing them is the single easiest way to destroy the one thing this site has, which is that its numbers are checkable.
Where the numbers come from
Three sources, cited inline at the point of use rather than in a bibliography:
| What | Source | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Charger specifications | The manufacturer's own datasheet, installation manual or product documentation | The only authority on what a product does |
| Electrical requirements | The National Electrical Code, by article number | Breaker sizing, conductor ampacity and GFCI requirements are code questions, not opinions |
| Vehicle onboard AC rates | The manufacturer's published specification | The figure that decides the whole purchase, so it gets the highest standard |
| Range and efficiency | The US DOE / EPA fueleconomy.gov web service | Federal data, per trim, which is what makes our charge-time arithmetic checkable |
| Charging definitions and policy | The US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center | Including the Section 30C expiry that a lot of published advice still has wrong |
| Reliability and real-world annoyances | Owner reports, always labeled as owner reports | Useful, and not the same thing as a tested finding |
We publish manufacturer-cited onboard AC limits for 20 vehicles, each with its source link, in the onboard charger limits table — which is the single page on this site we would most like other people to link to, because it is the figure nobody else publishes in a form you can cite.
How this is funded
Reader-funded, through affiliate links. We earn commission when you buy through a link here, at no extra cost to you, and we are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. There are no sponsored posts, no paid placements, and no brand paying for a ranking position.
That creates an obvious incentive problem, so we manage it in public: products are selected before any commercial consideration, ranking order is fit for the stated use case first, and where a car cannot use more amperage our vehicle pages say so and point at a cheaper, smaller charger than the reader was about to buy. The two 80 A trucks on this site are both told to buy a 48 A charger. Full detail in our affiliate disclosure and methodology.
Prices on this site render only from Amazon's live data and carry the date they were checked. If that data is more than 48 hours old the number disappears and the button reads "check price" instead. The failure mode is silence rather than a stale claim, and that is a deliberate design decision rather than a limitation.
Publisher
EV & Charger is published by Iron Mako Media (ironmakomedia.com).
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, tell us: contact@evandcharger.com. A sourced correction — a link to the manufacturer's page, or the relevant code article — gets acted on and the page gets a dated note rather than a silent edit. Our editorial policy sets out the commitment in full. Spec disputes are genuinely the mail we most want to receive, because being correct is the entire product.
There is no phone number and no postal address, because we are a publisher rather than a business you would visit. Email is the way to reach us.