Onboard charger limits for every EV in Australia
Your car's onboard AC charger is the single spec that decides how fast it charges at home — and it's the one spec almost nobody checks before buying a charger. Here it is for every major EV sold in Australia.
Read the variant, not just the model
Two cars with the same badge can charge at completely different speeds. The MG4 is single-phase 6.6 kW in every version except the Long Range 77, which is three-phase 11 kW. The Kia EV5 Standard Range is single-phase 6.6 kW while the Long Range is three-phase 11 kW. Check the exact variant you're buying.
| Car | Onboard AC (kW) | Type | On 7.4 kW box | On 22 kW box | Gain from 3-phase | Battery (kWh) | DC max (kW) | Source |
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How to read this table
Onboard AC (kW) is the ceiling. It's the maximum your car will draw from any home charger, no matter how big that charger is. It is not the DC fast-charging number you see in the brochure — those are two different systems, and the big number is the one that doesn't apply at home.
Gain from 3-phase is the honest answer to "should I install a 22 kW charger?". If it says No gain, a three-phase supply upgrade buys you literally nothing at home for that car — spend the money on something else.
Why "on a 22 kW box" is often the same as "on a 7.4 kW box"
A single-phase onboard charger can only use one of the three phases. Feed it a 32 A three-phase supply and it takes 32 A from one phase — exactly what a single-phase charger already gave it. Same speed, much bigger bill.
What we verified, and what we didn't
Rows marked Unverified are our best understanding but aren't confirmed against a manufacturer spec sheet. We'd rather tell you that than quietly present a guess as a fact. Where a row links a source, that source states the AC charger rating directly.
Some figures are genuinely contested. Kia's MY26 EV6 and EV9 are quoted at both 10.5 kW and 11 kW depending on the source, and no primary Kia Australia document settles it — Kia's Australian brochures are image-based PDFs that can't be read programmatically. We list the better-supported 10.5 kW figure for the pre-facelift cars, which Kia Australia confirmed directly to an independent tester who then measured it over OBD.
Found something wrong? We'd genuinely like to know — get in touch.