Review: EVPOVO 40amp plug-in NEMA 14-50 J1772 EV charger EVSE $270

Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/4cZmLQT Price as reviewed: $270 Level 2 EV Charger 40 Amp 240V NEMA 14-50 - J1772 Smart Electric Vehicle Charging Station, NEMA Type 4 Waterproof, 25ft Cable, WiFi App Control, Outdoor Wall Mount EVSE, ETL & FCC Certified Brand: EVPOVO The EVPOVO is a 40amp plug in (NEMA 14-50) EVSE (EV Charger) with an J1772 charging gun. [They sell other models that are hard wired, and support the NACS (Tesla) style car connections.] It has a colorful round screen that tells you the status of the charger, kW drawn by the car, Amps and Volts, along with time charging and total kWh provided in this session. The unit has two physical buttons that allow you to set a current limit or delay charging by up to 12 hours. If you install the phone app, you can set more complicated charging routines (only charging at certain times to make use of time-of-use billing, controlling the amp draw precisely, starting/stopping the charger remotely). One feature I would like that is not currently supported is to charge up to only a specific percentage of the battery pack capacity. [You can manually control this with a timed charge, or by stopping the charge after a specific amount of kwh has been delivered using the app, but you can't have the EVSE do it for you yet.] The early version I received had a cardboard drilling template, but unfortunately the X axis of the drilling template was printed slightly larger than it should have been, so the holes were off. EVPOVO has told me this will be fixed in future batches. As long as you use the physical bracket to mark your holes and not the cardboard template everything will line up. I've used it for several weeks with my Nissan Leaf (6.6 kWh charger) and it has performed perfectly. I have detected no undue heat from the unit during or after charging. (although my vehicle only draws 27.5 Amps out of the 40 amp maximum it can provide.)