Integrated multi-port electric vehicle (ev) charging system

A multi-port charging method for charging a rechargeable battery pack that solely propels a plug-in electric vehicle (EV), the method comprising:

• providing a smart EV charging station including a single network gateway as an entire system communication portion of the multi-port charging system and a single charging system controller as an entire system controller portion of the multi-port charging system;
• providing at least two or expandable to greater than two charge ports electrically coupled to the smart EV charging station,
• wherein each charge port includes only a charging portion of the multi-port charging system but not a system communication portion and a system controller portion of the multi-port charging system,
• wherein each charge port includes a metering circuit to track an amount of electric energy delivered to the plug-in EV and collect metered energy data and send the metered energy data back to the smart EV charging station, and
• wherein each charge port includes one or more EV connection plugs such that each EV connection plug comprises a cable and a connector.