Home EV Chargers: AI Visibility Market Discovery Index

Benchmark Summary

Questions This Section Answers

• Which home EV charger brands lead the October 2026 benchmark?
• How widespread was the decline in recommendation coverage compared with July 2026?

Wallbox Pulsar Plus leads the Home EV Chargers benchmark with valid recommendation coverage of 15.4% in October 2026, followed by Lectron at 11.9%, a gap of 3.5 percentage points. Valid recommendation coverage is the share of qualified observations in which a brand appears in a recommendation-shaped response.

October 2026 is a month of broad decline relative to the July 2026 baseline. Seven of the nine tracked brands recorded significant declines in valid recommendation coverage, and none recorded a significant increase. The largest decline came from ChargePoint Home (ChargePoint Holdings), which fell 61.5 percentage points to 0.0% in October 2026 from 61.5% in July 2026. Every brand that carried coverage at the July 2026 baseline recorded 0.0% in October 2026 except Lectron, at 11.9%, and Wallbox Pulsar Plus, at 15.4%.

The benchmark began with 800 prompt-surface observations in each month and produced 539 qualified observations after qualification in October 2026.

Current Benchmark at a Glance

Qualified surface breadth counts the six canonical AI/search surface families with at least one qualified observation: ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and AI Mode. August 2026, at 554 qualified observations, and September 2026, at 568 qualified observations, were intermediate points between the two comparison months.

For the strategic interpretation of this benchmark, read CiteWorks Studio's analysis of How AI Search Is Recommending Home EV Chargers

Research Scope and Qualification

Questions This Section Answers

• How many prompt-surface observations qualified for the public benchmark?
• Why do brand-level percentages use qualified observations rather than the raw collection universe?

The public benchmark is narrower than the raw collection universe by design. Brand-level percentages use the qualified observations as the public denominator, not the raw collection.

For the full research pipeline, see AI Visibility Market Discovery Methodology.

Current Brand Standings

Questions This Section Answers

• Which home EV charger brands had valid recommendation coverage in October 2026?
• How do recommendation coverage, top-three rate, and rank-one rate differ for the leading brands?

How to Read the Standings

Presence rate is the share of qualified observations in which a brand is mentioned at all. Valid recommendation coverage is the share of qualified observations in which a brand appears in a recommendation-shaped response. Top-three rate and rank-one rate capture how prominently a recommended brand is positioned. Net sentiment scores the tone of brand mentions on a scale where higher is more positive. For formulas and denominator rules, see AI Visibility Market Discovery Metric Definitions.

Recommendation Coverage Movement

Questions This Section Answers

• Which home EV charger brands recorded the largest coverage declines since July 2026?
• Did any tracked brand increase valid recommendation coverage between July and October 2026?

Largest Decline: ChargePoint Home (ChargePoint Holdings)

ChargePoint Home (ChargePoint Holdings) recorded the largest movement in the benchmark, with valid recommendation coverage falling 61.5 percentage points to 0.0% in October 2026 from 61.5% in July 2026. The brand declined in each of the three months since July 2026, moving to 57.6% in August 2026, 53.3% in September 2026, and 0.0% in October 2026. Presence also moved to 0.0% in October 2026 from 77.0% in July 2026. Rank-one rate fell to 0.0% in October 2026 from 31.4% in July 2026, and top-three rate fell to 0.0% in October 2026 from 54.9% in July 2026.

Category Leader: Wallbox Pulsar Plus

Wallbox Pulsar Plus holds the coverage lead at 15.4% in October 2026, down 8.3 points from 23.7% in July 2026 but up 1.0 point from 14.4% in September 2026, a move within normal month-to-month variation. It is the first month of an upward streak after declines in August 2026 and September 2026. Rank-one rate stands at 1.5% in October 2026, down 0.2 points from 1.7% in July 2026, which is within normal variation.

Recommendation Placement Snapshot

Questions This Section Answers

• Which brand had the higher rank-one rate in October 2026 despite a smaller coverage lead?
• How did placement rates change for the two brands still recommended in October 2026?

Coverage alone does not show how prominently a brand is recommended. Two brands carried recommendation placement in October 2026, and their first-position rates differ even where coverage is closer.

Lectron carried a rank-one rate of 2.0% in October 2026, ahead of Wallbox Pulsar Plus at 1.5% in October 2026, even though Wallbox Pulsar Plus holds a 3.5 point coverage lead. Close coverage can still hide different first-position rates.

Buyer-Intent Distribution

All qualified observations in both months fell into the Brand Recommendation class.

The current public series measures Brand Recommendation discovery only and does not yet contain qualified observations in Pricing & Value or Multi-Brand Comparison.

Historical Measurement Record

Questions This Section Answers

• Which brand led the home EV charger benchmark before October 2026?
• When did the coverage leader change in the benchmark record?

This is an evergreen benchmark URL. New measurements are added to the same report.

ChargePoint Home (ChargePoint Holdings) led the category through September 2026 before falling to 0.0% in October 2026, when Wallbox Pulsar Plus took the lead at 15.4%.

Evidence and Source Layer

The benchmark is built from prompt-level observations that retain the query, AI/search surface, answer, brand outcome, recommendation placement, sentiment, and, where exposed, citations or attributable evidence sources. Source presence is evidence about the information environment. It is not automatically proof that the source caused the recommendation.

Scope Boundaries

This public benchmark does not measure market share, attributable sales, every possible AI response, organic-search ranking, social mention volume, private or sponsored channels, or causality from a metric movement alone. It records the change; it does not, by itself, establish why the change occurred.

Top 10 Cited Domains

Questions This Section Answers

• Which domains were cited most often across AI platform responses in October 2026?
• How concentrated were citations among the top domains?
• Which tracked home EV charger brand domains appeared in the top 10 cited sources?

Across all AI platform responses in October 2026, the benchmark observed 6,662 citations drawn from 1,392 unique domains.

Citations are broadly distributed: the top 10 domains account for a combined 35.0% of all citations, and no single domain exceeds 6.8%. Two tracked brands' own domains appear in the top 10: tesla.com at rank 6 and ev-lectron.com at rank 8. The remainder skew toward general platforms and review and enthusiast sources, including a dedicated EV charger review site and an automotive publication, alongside general search, video, community, marketplace, and social domains.

About This Benchmark

The AI Visibility Market Discovery Index is a neutral, industry-level benchmark that tracks how AI assistants and search surfaces present brands in response to real user discovery prompts. Research links:

• AI Visibility Market Discovery Methodology
• AI Visibility Market Discovery Metric Definitions
• AI Visibility Market Discovery Research Standards
• Modeled AI Visibility Authority Value

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