EV Charger Installation
A Level 2 charger turns charging from an overnight worry into a non-event — if the circuit behind it is sized right. EMT Electric installs EV chargers across Chicago and the south suburbs: the wire, the breaker, the load math, and the permit.
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Bring whichever charger you bought
Tesla Wall Connector, ChargePoint, Emporia, Wallbox, or the mobile cord that came with the car plugged into a proper NEMA 14-50 outlet — the charger is the easy part. What decides whether it charges at full speed, and safely, is the dedicated 240-volt circuit feeding it: conductor gauge matched to the breaker, the breaker matched to what your panel can actually spare. That's the part we do for a living.
The install, start to finish
1. Load check first
Before quoting we look at what your panel already carries. That determines whether the charger gets a 30-, 40-, or 50-amp circuit — and whether the panel has the headroom at all.
2. The run
From the panel to where the car actually parks: through the basement to an attached garage, or out to a detached garage — a common Chicago layout that sometimes means trenching, which belongs in the quote, not in a surprise phone call.
3. Mount, permit, inspect
The charger goes on the wall, hardwired or plugged, and the village permit and inspection get handled where required. You get a charging circuit an inspector has signed off on.
If your panel has no room
Plenty of homes around here still run 100-amp services, and an EV circuit is the point where that stops being enough. If the load calculation says the panel can't carry a charger, the honest answer is a panel upgrade or a sub-panel — quoted together with the charger install up front, so you're deciding once, with the whole picture in front of you.
EV charging questions
Hardwired or plug-in?
Hardwiring is cleaner and usually required above 48 amps; a NEMA 14-50 outlet keeps the charger portable if you move. Either way the circuit work is the same job — we'll tell you which your charger's manual actually calls for.
Do you supply the charger?
Most customers buy their own — the car brand's unit or whatever was on sale — and we wire it. If you'd rather have one recommendation and one invoice, say so when you call.
How fast will it charge?
A Level 2 circuit typically adds roughly 20 to 40 miles of range per hour depending on the amperage and the car — nearly any EV fills overnight. The circuit size we install is the ceiling, so we size it to the car you have and the one you might buy next.
EV charger installs near you
The easiest EV charger installs are in homes with an attached garage and room in the panel, which describes a lot of the newer subdivisions in Orland Park and Tinley Park. Bungalows and ranches in Oak Lawn, Mount Greenwood and Evergreen Park often have a detached garage out back, and the big lots in Palos Park and Palos Heights can put the garage a long way from the panel. Those mean a trench or an overhead run, which we price into the quote up front.