What does it cost to install an EV charger where you live?
A Level 2 home charger install typically lands between $850 and $2,200 nationally, and the spread is almost entirely local: the distance to your panel, whether your service has room, your permit office's fee, and whether your electric utility still pays a rebate. The federal charger credit ended June 30, 2026, so what remains is state and utility money — and that varies by which side of a city line you live on.
National range modelled from installed-cost data, not a quote. Federal credit status verified 2026-08-13.
Start with your own numbers
Answer eight questions about your panel, your parking and your ZIP code. You get a modelled range broken into line items, plus every rebate we can actually verify for your area — including the ones that are gone.
What are we charging?
This picks the pricing model. A garage wall and a twelve-port depot have nothing in common but the wizard.
What we keep a record of
Four facts decide the price of an EV charger install, and three of them are local. We track all four and we date every one.
Installed cost, by scope
Not a national average with a city name attached. A range built from the run length, the panel work, the mounting and the trenching your job actually needs.
Who your electric utility is
A ZIP code is a mail route, not a utility boundary. Plenty of cities are split between an investor-owned utility, a municipal system and a co-op, and the rebate answer changes with the address.
The rebate that actually applies
Including when the honest answer is that there is none. A confident, sourced no is worth more than a vague maybe, and almost nobody publishes it.
The permit desk and the inspector
Which office issues the permit, what it costs, whether a dedicated 240-volt circuit needs one at all, and who shows up to inspect it — which is not always the same organisation.
There is no federal tax credit for an EV charger installed today — for a home or for a business. Public Law 119-21 moved the termination of the Section 30C Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit to June 30, 2026, and both halves of it ended on that date: the 30% residential credit capped at $1,000 per port, and the business credit of 6% (30% with prevailing wage and apprenticeship) capped at $100,000 per item. The separate Section 30D and 25E clean-vehicle credits ended for deliveries after September 30, 2025.
Most pages you will find on this subject still say you can claim thirty percent back, up to $1,000. That has not been true since June 30, 2026. It was also never universal: while the credit was live, a home had to sit in an eligible census tract — low-income or non-urban — so a great many suburban installs never qualified even then. If a quote you receive nets a federal credit against the price, the quote is wrong, and the difference comes out of your pocket.
Every number here has a date on it
Rebate programs run out of money without announcing it. A figure with no date is a liability, so we do not publish one. When a program's amount is older than we are comfortable asserting, we drop the digits and keep the link — you get the program, the sponsor and the source, and we tell you plainly that we are re-checking the number.
Verified
Checked inside its volatility budget. This is the only kind of figure we let drive an estimate.
Aging
Still on file, past its re-check date. Shown with the date, excluded from any total, and flagged for you to confirm.
Amount withheld
The program exists, our figure is too old to assert. Sponsor and source stay; the number goes.
Ended
Sunset date passed or funding exhausted. Still shown, because knowing a program is gone is worth the visit.
Four scopes, four different price models
A garage wall and a twelve-port depot share a wizard and nothing else. Pick the one that matches your job.
Where the record is complete
We publish a city only when we have a verified serving utility and a sourced permit authority for it. Cities we have not finished researching appear as rows on their state page, not as pages of their own. Leaving a city unpublished is a normal outcome here.
Installers: we send qualified jobs, not scraped lists
Every lead carries the panel amperage, the run distance, the mounting, the ZIP and the consent record. You see the scope before you call. Licensed and insured contractors only — we verify both before a single lead is routed.
See your range, and what is actually left of the incentives
Eight questions. A line-item range. Every rebate we can verify for your ZIP, with the date we checked it.