alt Hacker News> which would probably hae been another 3-5k if I could have found someone to do it.
Yo. If you can find an electrician to stop by my house and turn a light switch off for less than 1000$, please inform me. I got a quote for 25k$ to install a system that size, and that price. City code has me by the balls: I can't modify my main panel without inspection, the inspector won't show up without a licensed electrician, and electrician wants the labor. I pointed out that we're talking 8 hours of labor — call it 2500$, lawyer money — and he was like "what's your choice". I'm in Texas.
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For 2500$ maybe you can pass the exam to become licensed yourself. Like do it over the weekends.
2019 prices, but it was $487 to move a receptacle from under a window to the left of the window prior to making that window opening a french door.
In 2025 it was $1,100 to have an EVSE put in, including permit fees.
I'm in Pennsylvania.
Working with my township to get a permit / inspection was horrible -- they dragged their feet for months!
I have to believe that I am one of a few people in my township who have done this the "right way".
Run for political office espousing Texas' famous "freedom" that does not allow you to modify your own home.
Hoss I am sorry to hear that- I have literally no idea what electrical costs, as I've been doing it myself. If you're living close enough to other humans that the can observe and complain, then we're not really in the same situation.
But that doesn't really change my point, does it? Like, if they are installing $6k worth of equipment and materials, then that's what the up-thread points was about paying 10K more for tesla-branded equipment, right? I get that at a certain point the labor makes the cost of materials less of a deal, but my point was that my battery+inverter+panels+material is still less than the equipment they are describing.