Level 2 — wall-mount (workplace / multifamily)
$2,500–$8,000 per port installed. Hardware $700–$2,500; the rest is circuit, conduit, and panel work. Cheapest when panel capacity exists within 50 feet.
Cost Guide · 2026
Real installed-cost ranges from a contractor that builds these projects — including the part most quotes hide: the electrical infrastructure between the utility and the plug is usually the biggest line item, and the easiest to get wrong.
The Numbers
Total project cost including hardware, electrical work, and commissioning. Ranges are wide because sites are — the drivers below explain where any given project lands.
$2,500–$8,000 per port installed. Hardware $700–$2,500; the rest is circuit, conduit, and panel work. Cheapest when panel capacity exists within 50 feet.
$8,000–$20,000 per station installed. Hardware $4,000–$9,000; trenching, bollards, ADA compliance, and networking make up the balance.
$80,000–$150,000 installed. Hardware $35,000–$75,000; the rest is service capacity, switchgear, concrete, and utility coordination.
$150,000–$400,000+ per stall. Dedicated transformers and switchgear dominate. Multi-stall sites share infrastructure — per-stall cost drops meaningfully at scale.
Quoted per program, not per charger. Depot economics turn on utility service, load management, and phasing — the chargers are often less than a third of the budget.
$200–$1,000 per port per year for network software; $400–$1,500 per DC port per year for maintenance; demand charges are the silent budget-killer software must manage.
Why Quotes Vary 3x
If the existing service can carry the load, you skip the most expensive item on the menu. If it can’t, a service upgrade — or software load management that avoids one — sets the budget.
Every foot between the power source and the charger is conduit, wire, trench, and restoration. Surface matters: cutting asphalt or concrete can double the per-foot cost versus landscape.
New transformers and service upgrades carry both cost and lead time. Utility make-ready programs can fund most of this layer — if the application precedes construction.
The federal 30C credit pays 6% — or 30% with prevailing wage and apprenticeship compliance. On a $200,000 project, how the crew is paid changes the net cost by tens of thousands.
Networking, activation, commissioning, signage, ADA striping, and closeout documentation — the items low quotes quietly exclude and change orders quietly add back.
Oversizing conduit and reserving panel space while the trench is open costs little now and saves mobilization, cutting, and re-permitting when phase two arrives.
Where the Money Hides
On Level 2 projects, 40–60% of total cost is typically electrical infrastructure rather than charging hardware; on DC fast charging it can reach 75%. This is why equipment-first shopping produces surprise budgets — and why Faith Energy prices the electrical path and the hardware together, as one design. It’s also where the biggest offsets live: utility make-ready programs specifically fund this layer.
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Next Step
Send us the address, the panel photo, and what you want to happen. Our engineers will come back with the number and the path — including every offset your site qualifies for.