The Charge Curve

About The Charge Curve

The Charge Curve covers home EV charging across the decisions a driver actually faces: Level 2 wall chargers, the 240-volt units that add real range overnight; portable and travel EVSEs; and the NACS and J1772 adapters and cables that connect one car to another's plug — alongside a guides library on charge curves, charging cost, and installation. Its hero states the posture in a line — "Home EV charging, measured — not hyped" — over a promise of live prices, a published scoring method, and the math nobody else shows.

Its defining decision is stated on every page: it has not bench-tested the chargers it covers, and it says so. There is no lab and no owned hardware, so instead it compiles the published specifications from the manuals, verifies the safety listings, and does the arithmetic a reader can check — the electrical-code math behind a breaker size and the cost to charge at home, with the assumptions stated so the figures reproduce. The name points at the work that sets it apart: it compiles each charger's charging-speed curve from published manufacturer data rather than a graph it measured. Scores are labelled for what they are — judgements from documented research against a published rubric, never bench measurements — and every pick carries a "don't buy this if" line. Prices pull live from Amazon carrying the date they were fetched and disappear once more than 48 hours old rather than showing a figure that has gone stale.

That refusal to claim a test it never ran is exactly how Type 5 Marketing operates. The brand is funded by disclosed Amazon Associates commissions — no brand pays for placement, no manufacturer sends it hardware, and no commission can buy a ranking, a score, or a kind word — and when the cheaper charger is the smarter buy, it says so even though it earns less. Written by Stephen V., positioned honestly as an enthusiast genuinely into how EV charging works who states he is not a licensed electrician or an engineer, it leads with the spec sheet, does the electrical and cost math in public, and admits the work it hasn't done — the standard we hold across every property in the portfolio.

The Charge Curve is owned and operated by Type 5 Marketing LLC and applies our shared review methodology and affiliate disclosure. It reflects our affiliate marketing capability in practice.