If you have already rung around, you have probably been handed a flat figure for an EV charger installation in Malvern by someone who has not seen your switchboard, and a round number quoted sight unseen is rarely the number you end up paying. Martin Turnbull, a licensed A-Grade electrician who has run Smartlec since 2017, prices these a different way: a $99 inspection to look at the actual job, then a fixed quote you can hold him to. That $99 comes off the bill the moment you go ahead, so the honest assessment costs you nothing if the work does.
EV charger really costs in Malvern, and why a flat price
The reason almost nobody can give you a straight charger price down the phone is that the charger is the small part. What moves the cost is everything behind it: the cable runs from the board to where the car parks, whether your switchboard has any spare capacity, and whether the home is on single or three-phase supply. Two houses on the same street can land a long way apart on those three things alone. So a flat number, however confident it sounds, is a guess at a job nobody has looked at.
The $99 inspection exists to replace that guess with a real figure. A straightforward install can often be priced from a few clear photos of your meter box instead of a visit. Either way the price is locked before any work starts, and the $99 is waived in full once you proceed, so you are never paying twice to find out what the job costs.
One car overnight, or a row of bays for the business
A home filling a single car while you sleep and a workplace running several bays for staff and fleet are different installs, and Smartlec takes on both. At home it is usually one 7kW wall unit on its own dedicated circuit, placed so the lead reaches the car without trailing across a doorway or a path. For a business it can mean a bank of chargers, a supply split sensibly between them, and load management so the building does not trip when three cars plug in at five o'clock. Same licence either way, garage wall or car park.
One licensed trade for the circuit the board and the charger
Here is the part worth understanding before you book anyone. A lot of EV charger installers are precisely that, charger installers, and they bring in a separate electrician for the wiring and the switchboard. Smartlec works the other way around, which is the approach across all our EV charger work. Martin is a licensed A-Grade electrician who fits chargers, so the dedicated circuit, the switchboard capacity and the charger itself are one job, one trade, and one person answerable for all of it.
The same goes the other way: plenty of Brighton EV jobs land alongside other work, and a Brighton electrician who already knows the property can sort the power points, the lighting and the charger on one visit.
