What it costs
What an EV charger installer website should cost
EV charging is a young market with almost no word-of-mouth base yet, so nearly every customer arrives by search. The site is how they find you. Here is what it costs and what you get.
From £297, live in 7 days, on your own domain.
EV charger installer website cost
The short answer on cost
An EV charger installer website cost starts from £297 for a spec-built site on your own domain, live within seven days, with the first three months of care included. That sits below the agency quotes and above the near-free builders, both of which mislead you. But for an EV charger installer the price matters less than a fact about the market itself: it is brand new. A few years ago almost nobody had a home charger, so unlike an established trade there is no deep well of word of mouth to draw on yet, and nearly every customer is a fresh EV owner searching for an installer for the first time. That makes your website unusually decisive, because it is not one channel among many, it is very close to the whole way a new owner finds anyone. Priced against being the installer that search actually surfaces, a few hundred pounds is trivial.
What the money buys: being found in a market with no referral base
The value here is visibility in a trade too young to run on reputation alone. In a long-established trade, years of word of mouth quietly feed work; EV charging has had no time to build that, so search does the job referrals do elsewhere. That price buys the site that captures that search: fast, locally ranked, and clear about the install, the available grants and the DNO approval a new owner has questions about. That is disproportionately valuable precisely because the market is new, since being findable is not just helpful here, it is the main route by which a fresh EV owner finds any installer at all. What you are paying for is to be the one they find, which in this trade is most of the battle.
Why cheaper and dearer both mislead
The thousand-pound-plus agency quotes bundle overheads that do nothing to get you found by a searching EV owner. The near-free DIY builders go the other way, producing slow, generic sites that neither rank for the local EV charger searches nor look credible to someone about to spend several hundred pounds. Both miss the point. In a search-driven market an installer needs a fast, findable, credible site, and that is a specific thing to build well, so agency prices waste money and bargain builders undercut the very visibility that is the whole reason to have a site here.
Paid off fast as EV ownership grows
EV charger installs are quick and steady, so the payback is fast: a handful of jobs won because a new owner found you covers the build easily. And the maths only improves, because EV ownership is climbing year on year, so the pool of fresh owners searching for an installer keeps growing, and a findable site captures a rising share of a rising market. Set against how much of your work, in a trade with no referral base yet, depends simply on being found, the modest cost is an easy decision for an installer positioning for a market that is only getting bigger.
How it works
From message to live in four steps.
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Message me
Tell me your trade and your town on WhatsApp. No forms to wade through, no call to book.
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£99 to start
A £99 deposit gets your build going and comes off your quote. It covers some of the build time.
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I build it, you see it
I build the whole site, framed around your work, and send it to you finished to look at.
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Pay the rest, go live
Happy with it? You pay the balance, it goes live on your own domain, and it is yours to keep.
What you get
What an ev charger installation site from me includes.
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Built on spec
I build it first and send it finished. You see the real thing before you decide, not a mock-up.
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Live in 7 days
From the go-ahead, your site is live within a week. No months of back and forth.
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On your own domain
It goes live in your name. You own the site and everything on it, with no lock-in.
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Genuinely fast
Static pages, no WordPress. Fast pages rank better and turn more visitors into calls.
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Found on Google
Built to be found in local search, with the plumbing done properly from day one.
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Looked after
Someone looks after it and changes it when you need. Two small edits a month, your listing kept current.
What it costs
A straight price.
From £297 to build it, first three months of Care included, then £49 a month.
You own the site outright and can stop the monthly plan whenever you like. Hosting is part of Care and Grow, so one of those keeps it online after the first three months, or you host it yourself. See the full pricing.
Common questions
Questions I get asked.
How much does an EV charger installer website cost?
From £297 as a one-off, live on your own domain within seven days, with the first three months of care included, then £49 a month for hosting and small edits you can stop any time. For a new trade where almost every customer arrives by search rather than referral, that is a small cost for the presence that gets you found by fresh EV owners.
What am I really paying for with an EV charger website?
Being found in a market too new to run on word of mouth. EV charging barely existed a few years ago, so there is no deep referral network yet, and nearly every customer is a new EV owner searching for an installer. You are paying for the site that puts you in front of that search, because in this trade being findable is almost the whole game.
Why does the market being new affect the value?
Because in an established trade some work comes through years of word of mouth, but EV charging has no such base yet, so search does the job referrals do elsewhere. That makes a findable website disproportionately valuable here: it is not one channel among many, it is the main way a fresh EV owner finds any installer at all, so the site earns its keep quickly.
Why do some EV charger websites cost thousands?
Agencies bundle overheads that do nothing to get you found by a searching EV owner. A lean, fast site that ranks locally and explains the install, the grants and the approvals does the real job for a fraction of the price, so the big quotes rarely make sense for an installer whose task is simply to be the one found first.
Is a cheap DIY EV charger website good enough?
Usually not. Page builders are slow and generic, so they neither rank for the local EV charger searches nor look credible to a new owner spending several hundred pounds. In a search-driven market you need a fast, findable site, and a cheap builder undercuts exactly the visibility that is the whole point of having one.
Are there ongoing costs beyond the build?
A domain is about ten to fifteen pounds a year and you own it. The monthly plan covers hosting, backups and up to two small edits, so you can update charger models, grant details or approvals without a separate bill. A static site has almost nothing to break, so there are no surprise maintenance invoices.
How quickly does an EV charger website pay for itself?
Usually fast, because installs are quick and steady, so a handful of jobs won through search covers the build easily. In a market where nearly every customer finds you online, being found even a little more often quickly pays back the modest cost, and then keeps paying as EV ownership grows.
Do I own the EV charger website or rent it?
You own it outright. The domain is in your name and the site is yours to keep even if you stop the monthly plan. I do not lock people in, because the site that gets you found should belong to you, not be rented back every month.
Tell me your town and I'll build you an ev charger installation site on spec, so you can see it before you pay. Or read What a website costs, see the full pricing, or get in touch.