What a Level 2 Charging Build Costs

How it gets built

One provider, start to running.

We handle the sequence. The first two steps are free, and costs enter only when you decide to move.

1
Evaluate freeYour address scored against real stations: demand, competition, and what four stalls are likely to do.
2
Plan freeA working call. Your actual utility rate and the rebate your utility runs, into a first-pass number. If it is marginal, we say so.
3
Permit & design scoped up frontLoad calculation, panel schedule and the permit set. Most Level 2 jobs need no utility service work at all.
4
Install fixed package priceBreaker, conduit, wire, pedestals, chargers set and energized — quoted as a package, not an open-ended contract, and you see the electrician's price.
5
Operate ongoingAccess, pricing, payments and uptime monitoring, plus support for the driver standing at the charger at 11pm. Drivers call us, not your front desk.
6
Promote ongoingListed on the apps drivers search, and on your own booking channels. An amenity nobody can find is not an amenity.

Steps 1, 2 and 6 you could do yourself, and it is worth knowing which ones those are. Any owner can pull their utility's commercial rate, ask what rebate it runs on Level 2, and claim the property on the map apps drivers use. Steps 3 and 4 are licensed electrical work whoever you hire. Do the first three and you will read every quote you get — ours included — far better.

One build, every number in one place

OK, but what does it really cost?

A four-stall build at a hotel: two dual-plug Tap-N-Charge chargers on pedestals, on a property with room in the existing panel and a normal run out to the parking. Every line, and they add to the total.

What it is	What it costs
Equipment Two dual-plug chargers on pedestals, delivered — card reader and the two-year warranty included, nothing bolted on afterwards	$8,288
Installation Pedestals set, chargers mounted, terminated and energized — a fixed package price, not an hourly one	$2,650
Electrical make-ready Permit and load calculation, breakers, conduit, wire, and the run from the panel out to the stalls	$12,785
Construction management Us running it: the permit, the electrician, the schedule, the inspection and the energization — charged on the work above, never on the equipment	$3,860
The build, together Before incentives — utility rebates come off this	$27,583

That is $6,896 a stall, once — and well over half of it is the electrical work rather than the hardware. Which is the single most useful thing to know before you ask anyone for a price: the chargers are the predictable part, and the ground between your panel and your parking is not.

Our management fee is a line in that table rather than something added after it, and on a job this size most of it is the flat $1,699 — it is the same published schedule we run DC builds on, and a flat fee is simply a bigger share of a small job because project administration doesn't scale linearly.

Current list pricing for the configuration described; excludes sales tax and final destination freight. The make-ready figure is a real one, from a property with room in the panel and a straightforward route to the stalls — yours moves with the four conditions below. Rebates come off the total, and many utilities pay Level 2 rebates per kilowatt of capacity actually installed, so what the electrician sets the chargers to can matter as much as what they are rated for. The free evaluation prices yours.

Where your number lands

Four things decide the electrical. None of them is the charger.

All four are facts about your property that you can check before you talk to anybody — and any one of them going the wrong way moves the number more than choosing a different brand of charger ever will.

What decides it	Keeps it low	Pushes it up
Panel capacitySpare amperage already in the building	Room in the existing panel — the breakers go straight in	A new sub-panel, or a service upgrade and the utility lead time that comes with it
Run lengthDistance from the panel to the stalls	Stalls near the electrical room — a short run in modest wire	A long run across the lot, in heavier conductor, priced by the foot
What the route crossesThe ground in between	An open or landscaped route — little to cut, little to put back	Saw-cutting and repaving asphalt or concrete, then striping and bollards
Stall layoutHow the four stalls sit together	Stalls in a row — one trench feeds a shared conduit	Stalls split across the lot — a separate run to each location

Walk it yourself, in that order. Count the feet from your electrical room to the stalls you would use, note what the route crosses, and open the panel to see whether there is room. Those three answers place you on this table before a single quote arrives — and they are the same conditions that decide a DC build, at a friendlier scale, because the conduit does not care what is on the end of it.

Once it is on

What it costs to run.

Two ways to run the same hardware. Which one is right depends on whether you want to charge for the electricity at all.

What it is	What it costs	When you pay it
Tap-N-Charge A card reader on the unit. A driver taps and charges — no app, no account, nothing for you to administer	No annual license. 6.9% of what you sell, plus a $0.75 session fee the driver pays	Only on power actually sold
Connect 10 Network software: who is allowed to plug in, your pricing, reporting, uptime monitoring and 24/7 driver support	$199/yr for the site plus $199/yr per charger — $597/yr on this build — and 10% of what you sell, card processing included	Annual, plus a share of power sold
VoltCare Coverage past the two-year warranty. Response covers parts and labour; Exchange ships a replacement rather than queueing a repair	Response from $449/yr per pedestal · Exchange from $499 once, for three years	Optional — annual, or prepaid by term

If you are not charging for the electricity, there is no platform fee at all. Plenty of hotels run the stalls the way they run the pool — an amenity that earns its keep on the booking rather than at the plug. The hardware is the same either way, and the decision reverses, so it is not one to agonise over before the chargers are in.

Both percentages are of revenue you actually collect, so a stall nobody used costs nothing to run. Neither platform bills per port and neither carries a monthly subscription. VoltCare is genuinely optional — the chargers run without it.

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Four things decide the electrical. None of them is the charger.

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