You often don’t know what you’re getting into with budget parts sites. Sometimes, you might have a good experience where you walk away with components that fit while keeping more money in your wallet. Other times, you learn why the big names charge more. We want to help you avoid the hardship and heartache, so let’s look into an aftermarket seller that’s popping up more and more in search results: Evil Energy.
A quick look around Evil Energy’s site shows that they sell miscellaneous products, from fuel hoses and fittings to coilover suspension. Interestingly enough, they all wear Evil Energy branding. It takes some pretty serious capacity to design, develop, manufacture, and sell one part, let alone a big list consisting of products for different vehicle makes, models, and systems. That’s enough to make someone curious, but as we’re about to find out, Evil Energy has way more red flags lurking beneath the surface.
You can keep reading to learn more, but if you’re looking for a short summary, Evil Energy is another Chinese rip-off merchant under the same umbrella as SpeLab.
Evil Energy and Its Complicated Origins
Some posts floating around online claim that Evil Energy is a Canadian company. That’s false. A quick internet sleuthing session shows that people parroting that info have been duped by the company itself.
Evil Energy’s “About Us” webpage says:
“Our factories in Canada cover an area of 10,000 square meters and employ over 300 staff members. We are a direct and professional manufacturer of automotive parts, dedicated to providing high-quality and affordable basic components for automotive enthusiasts. We serve clients across the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, exporting over $3 million annually. Our warehouses are located in California, Georgia, and New Jersey, and we offer ‘Buy with Prime’ service to ensure fast and reliable delivery times.”
Meanwhile, an Evil Energy press release published to Globe Newswire in 2023 contradicts that info:
“With a focus on the car modification enthusiast market, EVIL ENERGY strives to deliver quality and cost-effective basic accessories. The company’s manufacturing operations are based in a facility that spans 10,000 square meters located in Zhejiang Province, China. The company employs a workforce of over 300, positioning itself as a direct source for automotive parts manufacturing within the industry.”
One of those is a lie. The likelihood of Evil Energy employing the same number of people, in identically sized factories, in countries thousands of miles apart is practically zero. And given the Chinese manufacturing industry’s reputation, there’s no good reason to mislead people so they think their parts are coming from across the Pacific.
If you search Evil Energy’s listed address in Diamond Bar, California, you’ll find that it’s linked to Infinit Express Logistics LLC. That company is described on Load Match as offering “ocean import and export, drayage, custom clearance, OTR FTL and LCL.” Its website can be viewed in two languages, and at this point, you can probably guess what they are: English and Chinese.
Further condemning details show that Evil Energy’s IP address is linked to China and Alibaba, the online retail giant headquartered in Zhejiang.
And one last nail in the coffin is Evil Energy’s business address on its Amazon seller profile.
Evil Energy and SpeLab, Another Counterfeit Parts Merchant
All these mentions of Zhejiang rang a bell for me. It’s because that’s where SpeLab’s parent company is based. In case you’re unfamiliar with SpeLab, we recently published an article picking apart all of its false claims and detailing how it steals competitor designs, often with poor results.
Of course, Evil Energy and SpeLab coming from the same province in China does not automatically mean they’re related. But there’s more supporting evidence that shows the two are linked.
One clear tie between the two is someone who goes by Oliver George, who’s listed by both Evil Energy and SpeLab as a “partnership manager.” Additionally, the listed contact information is the same.
Then there’s the fact that Evil Energy’s website is incredibly similar to SpeLab’s. Many of the parts are unique, but some appear to be practically identical. Just look at this intake manifold and grid heater delete for Ram trucks with the 6.7-liter Cummins engine:
The design you see here was blatantly copied from Banks Power, which developed the Monster Ram intake and has sold thousands of legitimate examples. It would be one thing if the Evil Energy intake horn worked as well as the product it’s based on, but it doesn’t. Reviews of the SpeLab-branded unit show extremely poor fitment, with some even claiming that a high-pressure fuel line must be manipulated or bent to install the manifold. That should make SpeLab’s part and, by extension, Evil Energy’s a non-starter as those lines are required to handle 30,000 psi.
It’s almost laughable to read some of the reviews on Evil Energy’s site for this part. One customer admits that they skipped the provided instructions to watch another shop’s installation of a Banks Monster-Ram. Since one is a copy of the other, the steps were close enough:
Even though these customer reviews are mostly positive, that’s not always the case.
Evil Energy and Bad Customer Service
If you want honest, unfiltered reviews of a company, you often need to visit a third-party site. TrustPilot is one, and Evil Energy’s page there shows more than a handful of one-star ratings. Most of them feature common complaints about frustrating customer service experiences.
It’s obviously problematic when the parts you receive aren’t what you expected, and there’s no easy way to contact a real person at the company. Evil Energy doesn’t list a customer service phone number, instead directing disgruntled buyers to an email address. Several users claim that the responses are horribly slow, frustratingly vague, and ultimately unhelpful.
Of course, it would be better if these problems never cropped up in the first place. I believe it’s still a customer service issue when parts are shipped in horrible condition. It’s one thing when you can blame the shipping carrier for damaging a box, but when the part itself is in rough shape, the issue runs deeper.
Hilariously enough, even one of Evil Energy’s five-star reviews says the part they received looked like it “went through a tornado”:
At least Frank was taken care of in the end, I guess.
Beware of Evil Energy’s Spreading Influence
You might notice Evil Energy popping up more on social media and YouTube, and that’s largely because of the brand’s affiliate program. It partners with content creators who make videos promoting Evil Energy products. That isn’t terribly unusual in the automotive aftermarket, but what is unusual is how those videos are used by the company.
Many of them are uploaded to Evil Energy’s YouTube channel as how-to videos. Because Evil Energy doesn’t have access to many of the platforms it sells parts for—you won’t find a Hemi V8-powered Ram in China—it outsources the installation instructions to affiliates who are encouraged to post on their channels as well. So while you can find hundreds of content creators hawking companies’ products, not often do they double as install specialists.
Evil Energy also hosted visitors at its own 2025 SEMA show booth. It gave away merch and recorded people with good things to say, whose testimonials were later tossed into an AI-narrated compilation. This paints a rosy picture, but as you’ve seen from practically everything else in this explainer article, it’s hardly complete.
The Verdict on Evil Energy
It’s true that some people have good experiences with Evil Energy. There are five-star reviews, positive videos, and customers who are satisfied overall. But that doesn’t mean it’s worth risking your money or your vehicle’s performance.
Companies with no regard for integrity, quality, or customer service aren’t worth buying from—especially since there are other brands out there that pride themselves on all three of those. You can buy the parts you need elsewhere because Evil Energy’s parts had to come from somewhere. Do yourself a favor and find the original versions of these products, then buy those from the companies that designed them.
Our goal is to keep you from regretting your parts purchases, and if you become a customer of Evil Energy’s, it’s only a matter of time before you wish you hadn’t.
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