Affiliate disclosure

The required statement

HomeChargerCalc.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

What an affiliate link is, mechanically

A product link on this site carries an identifier that tells the retailer the visit came from here. If you go on to buy something within the retailer's attribution window, the retailer pays us a small percentage of the sale. The price you pay is exactly the same as it would have been had you gone there directly, and the commission comes out of the retailer's margin rather than being added to your total.

Product links here open in a new tab and are marked with rel attributes identifying them as sponsored, which is both the search engine convention and an honest signal to you. Every roundup and buildout carries a plain-language note that the product rows are paid links.

What we are paid for and what we are not

• We are paid a commission when a reader buys something after following a product link here.
• We are not paid by any manufacturer to be included in a roundup, to be ranked in a particular position, or to be described in particular words.
• We do not sell placement in a comparison table, a buildout or a top pick slot.
• We do not accept payment to remove or soften a criticism of a product.
• We are not given free hardware in exchange for coverage, and we do not test hardware at all.

The bias this creates, stated plainly

A site paid on purchases has an obvious incentive to recommend more purchases and more expensive ones. Pretending otherwise would be silly, so here is how it actually plays out on this site and how we try to keep it honest.

The structural protection is that hardware is a minority of the money in this project. On a typical home charger installation the charger is fifteen to twenty five percent of the total and the labour, permit and inspection are more than half. A large amount of the advice here therefore points at spending less rather than more: install a 32 amp charger if your car caps at 6.6 kW, do not pay for 80 amps that no vehicle you own can use, check whether an existing receptacle is already suitable before planning any work, consider a load management device before a service upgrade, and put money into cable length rather than amperage. None of those recommendations increases what we earn, and several reduce it.

The other protection is that every pick carries a stated trade-off and every roundup includes a section on who should not buy the expensive tier. Where a cheaper option is genuinely equivalent, the page says so, and where a more expensive option is genuinely unnecessary, the page says that too.

How products get chosen

We do not perform hands-on product testing, we have no laboratory, and we never claim otherwise. Recommendations are researched from published manufacturer specifications, listed safety certifications, published ratings and verified owner reviews read in volume for failure patterns. The filters we apply, in order, are certification, honest continuous ratings, recurring failure modes in owner reports, and whole-job cost rather than box price. Full detail is on the about page.

Every product identifier used here was confirmed against the live retailer listing before being attached to a product name, and the verified product title is recorded in the source alongside it. On a site where products differ by amperage and connector type, a mismatched link is not a cosmetic error, it is an electrically wrong recommendation, so this step is treated as a safety control rather than an editorial nicety.

Links that are not affiliate links

Some outbound links here are citations rather than buy paths, and those are never monetised. That includes references to the National Electrical Code and standards bodies, utility rate and rebate pages, government and tax credit information, and permitting or inspection authorities. Those exist so you can check a claim at its source, and routing them through a commercial link would corrupt that purpose. We also never present a directory of electricians as a buy path.

Prices

Prices shown on this site were accurate when the page was researched and change without notice. The price displayed at checkout by the retailer is the one that counts. Build totals are the sum of the researched line items and should be treated as a planning figure rather than a quote, particularly the labour and permit lines, which are researched estimate ranges rather than bids for your job.

Safety is not for sale

No commercial arrangement affects what this site says about electrical safety, code requirements, conductor sizing, permits or the need for a licensed electrician. If a recommendation and a safety consideration ever conflict, the safety consideration wins and the product does not appear. Our full position is on the electrical safety policy page.

Questions

If you want to know whether a particular recommendation is influenced by a commercial relationship, ask. Write to [email protected] and you will get a straight answer. See also the disclaimer and the privacy policy.