The median installed price in Ireland is €1,249, or €949 after the €300 SEAI grant. That is the number on the website. It is rarely the number on the invoice, and the gap is not a scam. It is the 9 extras nobody puts in a headline.
Key points
| Median installed price | €1,249 |
|---|---|
| After the €300 SEAI grant | €949 |
| Published range, lowest to highest | €899 – €1,595 |
| What installers quote for a whole job | €1,000 – €2,100 |
| Extras, if every one of them applies to your house | up to €3,130 on top |
These are installed prices: the charger and a standard fit. Where a supplier gave a range we have taken the midpoint and said so.
| Zappi Eco 7 kW | €899 €599 after grant |
|---|---|
| EO Mini Pro 3 7 kW | €929 €629 after grant |
| Easee Charge Lite 7.4 kW, untethered | €1,049 €749 after grant |
| Wallbox Pulsar 7–22 kW | €1,049 €749 after grant |
| Wallbox Pulsar Plus 7.4 kW, untethered | €1,099 €799 after grant |
| Ohme ePod 7 kW, untethered | €1,199 €899 after grant |
| Ohme Home Pro 7 kW, tethered, 5 m | €1,249 €949 after grant |
| SyncEV Car Charger 7.4/22 kW | €1,295 €995 after grant |
| Hypervolt Home 3 Pro 7 kW, tethered | €1,299 €999 after grant |
| EO Smart Connect 7–22 kW | €1,299 €999 after grant |
| Zappi 7 kW 7 kW | €1,445 €1,145 after grant |
| Zappi Pro 7–22 kW | €1,499 €1,199 after grant |
| Zappi v2.1 7/22 kW | €1,595 €1,295 after grant |
Installation cost by brand, model by model: Zappi · Ohme · Wallbox · EO. Choosing between them: which charger suits which house · tethered or untethered · how long installation takes.
Some quote the unit, some quote the job. These are the whole-job figures:
| 7.4 kW untethered | €1,100 – €1,450 |
|---|---|
| 7.4 kW tethered | €1,200 – €1,550 |
| 7.4 kW smart | €1,400 – €1,800 |
| 7.4 kW solar-ready | €1,700 – €2,100 |
| 7.4 kW package, all-in | €1,599 |
| Supply and install, typical | €1,000 – €1,300 |
This is the part that decides your actual invoice. None of it is unusual, and none of it appears in a headline price.
| Fuse board / consumer unit upgrade Older boards with no spare way, or no RCD protection. Pre-1990 houses often need €500–€650. | €200–€600 |
|---|---|
| Meter tails upgrade Commonly needed on 1990s houses. | €300–€400 |
| Cable run beyond the standard length Standard installs cover about 5 m. A 10–15 m run adds about €150–€200. | €50–€400 |
| Trenching, grass or soft ground Detached garage or a charger away from the house. Expect about €250. | €200–€300 |
| Trenching through tarmac or paving Reinstating a driveway costs more than digging it. | €400–€550 |
| Demand management device Required where the supply cannot carry the charger at full load alongside the house. | €180 |
| Tethered instead of untethered A fixed cable rather than a socket. | €50–€200 |
| Three-phase conversion Only if you genuinely need 22 kW at home, which almost nobody does. | €1,500 |
| Structural or building work Core drilling, mounting on a wall that will not take it, or making good afterwards. | €200–€500 |
The lowest-priced advertised charger in the table above is €899 installed. If every extra applied to your house at the top of its usual range, they would add €3,130: more than three times the charger itself. That is a worst case and almost nobody hits it. But it is why a quote can come back at double the advertised price without anyone being dishonest.
The three that catch most people: an older fuse board with no spare way, a charger going somewhere that needs the cable dug in, and a 1990s house needing its meter tails upgraded.
The SEAI Home Charger Grant is €300 off a home charger installation. Your property needs off-street parking and must not have claimed before. Apartments and houses without dedicated parking are not eligible for this grant. There is a separate apartment scheme: see apartments and renters. The grant was €600 until 1 January 2024: see what changed. The forms, in order, are on how to claim the grant.
Do not let anyone start work before the start date on your Letter of Offer. If the work starts first, the spend is deemed ineligible and the grant is gone. There is no appeal, and it is the single most common way people lose the €300. Get the letter, read the date, then book the installer.
Whether the grant applies to you comes down to off-street parking, which in practice comes down to whether you live in a house or an apartment. Our county pages carry the housing mix for every town in Ireland, so you can see the odds where you live before you ring anyone.
The only way to know which of those extras apply is for someone to look at your fuse board and measure the run. Tell us where you are and we will come back with a fixed written price, and whether the €300 grant applies.
No cost, no obligation. We price the job and introduce you to a Safe Electric registered electrical contractor. We are not an electrical contractor ourselves.
The median installed price across the 13 chargers is €1,249, or €949 after the €300 SEAI grant. The typical range runs from €899 for a Zappi Eco to €1,595 for a Zappi v2.1. Installers quoting a whole job rather than a unit land between €1,000 and €2,100.
Because the advertised price buys a standard installation, and most houses are not standard. Add a fuse board upgrade, a cable run past five metres, trenching, a demand management device and meter tails, and the extras alone reach €3,130 at the top of every usual range. That is more than three times the lowest-priced advertised charger. None of it is a scam. It is simply not in the headline.
€300. It is not knocked off the invoice up front: you pay the installer, then SEAI pays you once the paperwork is in. Your home must have off-street parking, and the property must not have claimed the grant before. Apartments and houses without dedicated parking are not eligible for this grant. A separate apartment scheme covers those.
The grant needs the electrical work done by a contractor registered with Safe Electric Ireland, and the charger itself must be on SEAI's Smart Charger Register. Check both before you pay a deposit: a cheaper unit bought online that is not on the register will not qualify.
installed prices for Zappi chargers run from €899 to €1,595, depending on the model, before the €300 grant. Our Zappi installation cost page breaks down every model.
No, and this is the most expensive mistake people make. SEAI will not pay if the work starts before the start date on your Letter of Offer. There is no appeal. Get the letter, check the date, then book the installer, not the other way around.
Almost certainly not. Irish homes are single-phase, which caps you at about 7.4 kW. Going to 22 kW means a three-phase conversion, from €1,500 and up, to charge a car that is parked overnight anyway. A 7 kW charger adds roughly 40 km of range an hour.
Tethered has the cable attached, which is more convenient day to day and costs €50–€200 more. Untethered is a socket you plug your own cable into: tidier, and it still works if you change to a car with a different connector.
Three questions, about forty seconds, and you will know, including whether you are about to lose it on the order you do things in.
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