Home charging, North Portland
EV Charger Installation
A dedicated 50 amp, 240 volt circuit from your panel to the charger you already bought, plus the final connection. We don't sell the charger; we run the circuit it needs.
Chapter 01
Why the outlet the car came with isn't the answer
Every EV ships with a cord that plugs into an ordinary wall outlet, and it will charge the car that way. It is also the slowest way there is to do it, and it leaves an extension cord running across a garage floor or a driveway most nights, which is its own problem. A dedicated circuit sized for the charger is what actually gets a car charged overnight instead of over two days.
A lot of the panels we see around our own neighborhood in St. Johns were sized decades before anyone was charging a car in the garage. Whether there's spare capacity to add a 50 amp, 240 volt circuit is usually the first real question, not the last one.
A commercial hallway with exposed conduit runs, the same circuit work Bridgetown Electric brings from a panel out to an EV charger
The circuit we run and what we install
Our published flat rate is $1,495 for a 50 amp, 240 volt circuit run up to 15 feet from your panel, plus a receptacle or the final connection to the charger. You supply the charger itself, whether that's a basic wall-mounted unit or a smart charger with WiFi. Conditions apply. Pricing subject to change.
Two things change that number. A run longer than 15 feet from the panel is more wire and more labor than the base price covers. And if your panel doesn't have the spare capacity to take the new circuit at all, that's a panel upgrade first, which we publish separately at $3,495.
We're an electrical contractor licensed as 26-887C, bonded and insured, working out of our shop on N Lombard Street. Call (503) 621-7122 and we'll tell you honestly which side of that line your panel is on before we ever quote the job.
Chapter 03
Knowing the install did its job
Once the circuit's in, the test is simple: plug in and watch the charge rate on the car itself, not the guess you'd make from a standard outlet. If a charger you already have starts tripping the breaker or the charge rate drops off over time, that's worth a call rather than something to live with. On an older service in particular, it can be the first sign the panel is closer to its limit than it looked.
Estimates are typically available within one to two weeks, Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 4 PM. We're closed weekends, so get in early if you're timing this around a delivery date.
Bridgetown Electric — Licensed, bonded and insured. CCB #103824, electrical contractor 26-887C. Call (503) 621-7122.