Charged up and ready before you are
What does it cost to install an EV charger where you live?
A Level 2 electric vehicle (EV) charger install at home typically lands between $800 and $3,000 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.
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 will my EV charger installation cost?
Start with what you are charging. 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.
States we can answer for today
Give us an address in one of these and we can name the utility that serves it, which is what decides whether there is any rebate money on your install at all. The percentage is the share of that state's ZIP codes we have mapped; the second figure is how many of those we checked by hand rather than inferring from federal service-territory data. Everything else is a state page with the utilities we hold on record.
- Alabama89% of ZIP codes mapped11 hand-checked
- Arizona98% of ZIP codes mapped155 hand-checked
- California100% of ZIP codes mapped373 hand-checked
- Colorado96% of ZIP codes mapped32 hand-checked
- Florida99% of ZIP codes mapped44 hand-checked
- Georgia97% of ZIP codes mapped47 hand-checked
- Idaho97% of ZIP codes mapped17 hand-checked
- Illinois97% of ZIP codes mapped179 hand-checked
- Indiana61% of ZIP codes mapped0 hand-checked
- Maryland100% of ZIP codes mapped146 hand-checked
- Massachusetts99% of ZIP codes mapped36 hand-checked
- Michigan90% of ZIP codes mapped69 hand-checked
- Minnesota71% of ZIP codes mapped0 hand-checked
- New Jersey100% of ZIP codes mapped574 hand-checked
- New York92% of ZIP codes mapped64 hand-checked
- North Carolina88% of ZIP codes mapped66 hand-checked
- Oregon96% of ZIP codes mapped63 hand-checked
- South Carolina91% of ZIP codes mapped4 hand-checked
- Texas98% of ZIP codes mapped20 hand-checked
- Utah95% of ZIP codes mapped0 hand-checked
- Virginia97% of ZIP codes mapped432 hand-checked
- Washington79% of ZIP codes mapped150 hand-checked
- Wyoming66% of ZIP codes mapped0 hand-checked
No city has cleared the publish gate yet
This list is computed from the same gate that runs on every city page, so it stays empty until the research is genuinely finished — a city we cannot stand behind is worth less to you than no city at all. What is finished is the layer underneath: who supplies the power, who pays a rebate, who is on record paying nothing, and when we last read each one.
Three in one state is what puts that state on this list.
Installers: we send qualified jobs, not scraped lists
Every job we send you 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 job is routed.
Four questions, in the order people ask them
Each one is a short answer with its working shown. The first can save you the other three.
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.