About ChargeQuote: built to measure, not to sell.

Getting a home EV charger fitted should be simple. In practice, the first number you see is rarely the number you pay. Headline “from” prices assume a perfect, standard install; then the survey finds your consumer unit needs upgrading, your cable run is longer than average, or the installer adds a call-out, and the real cost lands hundreds of pounds higher. For market context, published prices range widely — Checkatrade puts a typical home install around £1,000, E.ON advertises from roughly £1,272, and community threads report installers as low as £999 — which tells you how little the headline figure actually means.

On top of that, the loudest voices in the market are energy suppliers and charger brands who have something to sell you. Their advice tends to point at their own tariff, their own hardware, or their own install service. There has been no neutral referee telling you what a fair price looks like and which installers actually turn up and do good work. That gap is why ChargeQuote exists.

ChargeQuoteis a UK price-transparency and installer-matching platform for home EV charging. We don't manufacture chargers, we don't sell electricity, and we don't fit the units ourselves. That matters: because we have no hardware to shift and no tariff to push, we have no reason to steer you towards anything but the best-value, best-reviewed install for your property.

Our team comes from data and home-services backgrounds — people who spent years watching opaque pricing frustrate ordinary buyers and decided to point a spotlight at it. We treat EV charger pricing the way a comparison site treats energy or insurance: gather the real numbers, publish them openly, and let an informed buyer choose. The difference is that we pair the data with a human-grade qualification step, so the quotes you receive are genuinely comparable rather than a scatter of guesses.

When you use ChargeQuote, our assistant asks a short set of questions: your postcode, the type of property and parking you have, which charger you're leaning towards, your rough timeline, and whether you might qualify for the government grant. This turns a vague “how much is a charger?” into a defined job an installer can price accurately — the same job, described the same way, sent to each installer.

That qualified job goes only to the vetted, OZEV-approved installers who cover your postcode and can actually do the work. They respond with fixed quotes, which you compare side by side. Because everyone is quoting the same defined job, the numbers are directly comparable, and the grant is reflected up front where you qualify. Your details are never sold on to a wide list of unrelated companies, so you don't end up fielding cold sales calls for weeks afterwards.

Underpinning all of this is our live cost index. We aggregate real invoices and quotes every month and publish the trend, so you can sense-check any quote you receive against what the rest of the country is actually paying. It's the same data we use to keep installers honest, made public for you.

Trust in a comparison service comes down to incentives. Ours are simple and stated openly: installers pay us only for qualified jobs, you pay nothing, and you never pay more on your install for being matched through us. We don't take a cut of the install price, so we have no reason to inflate it — if anything, the more honest the price, the more buyers trust the platform and the more value installers get from joining.

We also hold installers to a continuous standard rather than a one-off check. OZEV approval, valid insurance and a healthy review score are conditions of staying on the network, not just joining it, and we remove anyone who slips. And because every figure we publish is drawn from real installs — or clearly marked as “not yet tracked” when we don't have the data — you never see an invented number presented as fact. Where we cite the wider market, such as competitor “from” prices, we attribute it as context, not as our own quote.