ChargePoint Home Flex - Hardwired or Plug In?

[beatle]

Definitely hardwire. It's safer, faster, and more reliable (a receptacle requires a GFCI breaker which may cause nuisance trips).

The idea of being able to take the EVSE with you when you move is way overblown. An EVSE costs about $500. The industrial receptacle and more expensive breaker you need probably add $250 over the cost of a hard-wired install. So you might save $250 in a few years by being able to move your EVSE (and that's only if your new place has a receptacle already, if you need to add one, the extra cost will eat up all your "savings"). Hardly seems worthwhile when weighed against the benefits of hardwiring.

+1. It used to be a lot cheaper to install a 14-50 before the code changed in 2019 to require a GFCI breaker, and before a lot of people (at least I) knew that you should use an industrial receptacle. I melted my inexpensive 14-50R a couple years after installing it. Wiring was also a lot cheaper back then, and the extra conductor you needed for a 14-50 wasn't very noticeable.

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[dradam]

Hardwired-- less failure points. Even if you move super easy to remove the charger