Memphis, TN
EV CHARGER INSTALL ESTIMATING.

## EV Charger Estimating in Memphis Moves Fast — Your Bids Should Too Memphis is not a small market. The metro is expanding EV infrastructure across Shelby County, with Tesla destination chargers, commercial fleet retrofits at distribution hubs along I-240 and I-40, and residential Level 2 installs multiplying in suburbs like Germantown, Collierville, and Bartlett. If you are quoting EV charger jobs by hand or copying last month's spreadsheet, you are leaving money on the table and handing faster contractors the close. Estimate.Pro gives you a field-ready estimating tool built for the 25 trades — including EV charger install — that produces a priced, sendable bid in a median of 8 minutes from walkthrough to send. --- ## What Makes EV Charger Estimating Different in Memphis **Code baseline is NEC 2020.** Tennessee adopted NEC 2020 statewide, and the City of Memphis enforces it through the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Construction Code Enforcement. Every EV charger scope you price needs to account for Article 625 (Electric Vehicle Charging System) requirements — dedicated branch circuit sizing, GFCI protection on Level 2 circuits, and load calculations that satisfy the local AHJ. Miss any of those line items in your bid and you eat the change order. **Panel capacity drives the job cost more than the charger does.** A Level 2 EVSE on a residential service in Midtown or Cooper-Young often means a 200 A panel upgrade or a sub-panel pull because the original 100 A service is maxed. That panel work is where your margin lives. Estimate.Pro lets you build saved material cost workspaces so your breaker, wire, conduit, and labor rates stay current — no re-keying the same SKUs every bid. **Commercial and fleet jobs need load coordination.** Distribution and logistics companies along the I-55 and I-40 corridors are converting van and truck fleets. Those jobs require demand-load calculations, utility coordination with Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW), and sometimes transformer upgrades. Estimate.Pro's scope-of-work engine prompts you to capture that upstream infrastructure work so it shows up in the bid, not in a dispute after the job. **Permit fees and turnaround matter here.** Shelby County permit fees for electrical work run on a valuation-based schedule. For a typical residential Level 2 install with panel work valued around $3,500–$5,000, expect a permit fee in the $75–$150 range depending on declared valuation. Commercial installs with higher declared values scale up from there. Pulling the permit before you mobilize is non-negotiable — the Memphis OCCE does conduct inspections on EV charger circuits. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Memphis EV Charger Installers **1. Walk the job, measure with your phone.** On supported devices, the app uses ONNX-assisted live AR to measure conduit runs, panel distances, and trench paths. On any device, photo measurements are captured and flagged as estimates — you always know what's verified and what's not. **2. AI generates your scope of work.** Based on your walkthrough inputs — charger level, amperage, service capacity, mounting surface, conduit type — the AI drafts a line-item scope covering the EVSE circuit, panel work, conduit, hardware, and labor. NEC 625 checklist items are built in so you don't miss inspection-critical line items. **3. Price it with your own saved costs.** Your material costs — wire, breakers, conduit, the charger unit itself — live in your saved workspace. Adjust once when prices change, and every future bid pulls the updated figure. **4. Send it in the field.** The finished bid goes to the customer as a professional document from your phone, before you leave the driveway. Elite tier users get Stripe Connect for in-app payments and invoice exports. Pro tier runs at $39/seat/month. Elite is $79/seat/month. Crew (multi-tech teams) is $399/month flat. The Free tier is free forever with no credit card required. --- ## Winning Memphis EV Jobs on Price and Speed Residential customers in Germantown and East Memphis are getting multiple quotes. Commercial fleet managers at logistics operations near Memphis International Airport have procurement timelines. The contractor who delivers a clean, itemized bid fastest — with a professional document that shows the panel work, the permit line, and the EVSE hardware broken out — closes more often. Estimate.Pro does not charge a platform fee on Pro and above. On the Free tier, a 3% Stripe Connect fee applies to payments processed through the app. Start on the Free tier today. No credit card. Your first bid takes 8 minutes.