ChargeRight | EV Panel Assessment

Every year, thousands of EV buyers get told they need a $5,000+ panel upgrade before installing a charger. Most don't. ChargeRight runs your home through the actual NEC 220.82 load calculation — the same math a licensed electrician uses — for $12.99. evchargeright.com

Great question Seth. Short answer — ChargeRight runs the NEC 220.82 load calc on your main panel to see if your 200A service can handle the added charger load. That’s the first step and the one most installers skip (or get wrong to sell you a panel upgrade). Your sub-panel situation is a second layer. That 70A feeder is your bottleneck — not the 200A main. If that sub has kitchen, lighting, general receptacles, and you want to add a 40-50A charger circuit, you’re likely over that 70A feeder’s capacity. Options: 1.Run the charger circuit from the main panel instead of the sub (most common fix) 2.Install a smaller charger (24A/30A breaker) on the sub if the math works 3.Add a load management device that throttles the charger when other loads are high Run your home through ChargeRight first — if your 200A service has headroom, option 1 is your cleanest path. $12.99 and 5 minutes at evchargeright.com Master Electrician, IBEW Local 369 / EVITP Certified

@EV_ChargeRight Will this tell me if my sub-panel can handle an EV charger? Main panel is 200A but only 70A to the sub which has everything except the HVAC and dryer.

Every year, thousands of EV buyers get told they need a $5,000+ panel upgrade before installing a charger. Most don't. ChargeRight runs your home through the actual NEC 220.82 load calculation — the same math a licensed electrician uses — for $12.99. evchargeright.com

The installation fees are a real problem — and it's one I can speak to as a Master Electrician. Most homeowners get quoted $3,000-$5,000+ for a charger install because the electrician bundles in a panel upgrade that's often unnecessary. About 70% of homes with 200A service already have enough capacity for a Level 2 charger without upgrading anything. A proper NEC 220.82 load calculation takes minutes and tells you the truth. The problem is most installers skip that step because the upgrade is where the money is.

Funny. I thought it was supposed to be cheaper to drive EV, but everything I have seen says otherwise. They are expensive cars, cost more than gas to charge when not at home, energy costs are through the roof, installation fees for charging stations, battery disposal…insane. It’s yet another money making lying scam. Scan similar to the one where a Registration fee used to include all of that crap. And now? Now they are a bunch of money grubbing assholes that refuse to spend within the given budget so they make up more bullshit ways to suck more money out of us. Screw you @GovofCO @coloradodems and every Colorado politician that voted for Tim’s nonsense.

Wow did you know Colorado has way more fees for car registration than even CA?? Call me crazy but I think we already pay enough taxes to cover things like hiring DMV clerks, running databases, EMS services etc

Master Electrician here — $10,900 for a Level 2 charger install is not normal. That quote almost certainly includes a full panel upgrade you may not even need. A typical Level 2 install runs $500-$1,500 if your panel has capacity. Even with a subpanel it's usually $2,000-$3,500. Before you give up on the EV, get a second opinion. Specifically ask them to run a NEC 220.82 load calculation on your panel. That'll tell you if the upgrade is actually necessary — most of the time it isn't.

I got a price quote from an Electrician to install a level 2 EV charger at home 10,900 dollars. Guess i am not buy a new EV, of course its not going to be a Tesla.

$850 is actually a solid price. Panel being on the wrong side of the garage means they had to run a longer conduit/wire run which adds material and labor. As a Master Electrician — the big thing most people don't realize is that the panel location + existing load determines whether you need an upgrade at all. Most people don't. A proper NEC 220.82 load calc takes 10 minutes and can save you $3K+. Smart move charging off-peak too. $0.08/kWh is hard to beat.

@DowneastMemes @ar_doc @itskyleconner I don't know where you live but my level 2 charger cost $850 for an electrician to install. It would have been cheaper but my panel was on the wrong side of the garage. As long as I charge between 12-8am, I'm paying $0.08/kwh to charge.

Just the facts: Took 1.5 hours to charge Cost ~$75

Check your panel before you hire anyone: evchargeright.com Built by a union electrician, not an installer trying to upsell you.

I'm a Master Electrician with 10+ years in the trade. IBEW Local 369. I need to tell you something the EV charger installation industry doesn't want you to hear: 70% of homeowners do NOT need a panel upgrade to install a Level 2 charger. But installers make $3,000-$5,000 on that upgrade. So they recommend it anyway. I built a tool that runs the same NEC 220.82 load calculation I'd run on-site — for $12.99. It takes 5 minutes and tells you the truth about your panel. No one was protecting homeowners from unnecessary upgrades. So I built the protection myself.

@walls_jason1 @nic_detommaso @walls_jason1 This. The data doesn't lie — 70% of homes don't need the upgrade. Mark Cuban just spotlighted ChargeRight on Yahoo for fighting exactly these $3-5k upsells: finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-cuba…

💯 @nic_detommaso As a Master Electrician turned founder (zero coding background, just 15 years pulling wire), this is everything. Built @EV_ChargeRight to make the “yes” a safe bet — real NEC 220.82 data proving 70% of EV owners don’t need panel upgrades. Proof over promises. Removes the leap of faith.

A VC’s job is to say yes. The ones who say yes are betting their reputation on you. Make it easy for them to believe.

@mcuban Exactly — there is a lot more done in a company than programming. That’s why your “keep telling my story” DM changed everything. I’m a non-AI-native: Master Electrician, IBEW Local 369, 15+ years pulling wire in Kentucky. Trade school, not Stanford. Zero coding background. I talked to @claudeai like I was training an apprentice on site. Fed it my real NEC 220.82 knowledge. 6 months later @EV_ChargeRight is live — tells Tesla/Rivian owners if they actually need that $3-5k panel upgrade. 70% don’t. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll. You spotlighted us in the Yahoo Finance piece on new businesses exploding because of AI. AI made the knowledge cheap. But 20 years reading real electrical panels? That’s the moat. Still pulling wire at 5AM and coaching little league while running the company. To every tradesperson or “non-native” feeling behind: the barrier isn’t skill. It’s believing you’re allowed to try. Proof of work + AI wins. finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-cuba…

This is wrong. It assumes that new grads don't learn new skills. I'll let you in on a secret. AI, in whatever way we use it, is going to change, continuously, for YEARS GenZ is AI native and will keep up. The non native AI generations?😀 No chance.

@mcuban Spot on — there’s way more to a company than just code. @walls_jason1 (Master Electrician, IBEW Local 369) used @claudeai + 20 years pulling wire to build @EV_ChargeRight. 70% of Tesla/Rivian owners skip the $3-5K panel upgrade they don’t need. Real domain knowledge + AI is the moat. Thanks for the “keep telling my story” DM — it’s working. finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-cuba…

Run the full NEC 220.82 load calc for the Hummer EV right now. 60 seconds. $12.99. No electrician visit needed. EVchargeright.com Built with @AnthropicAI's Claude by @walls_jason1

NEW in ChargeRight: GMC Hummer EV 205 kWh battery. 363 mi range. 1,000 HP. This beast draws up to 80A when charging at home on Level 2. Before you plug this in — do you actually know if your panel can handle it? Most electricians will quote you $3-5K for a panel upgrade without running the math. We run the real NEC 220.82 load calc. 80% of the time? No upgrade needed. Built by @walls_jason1 — IBEW Master Electrician — powered by @AnthropicAI Hummer EV owners: reply with your panel size. Let's find out. #HummerEV #GMC #EVcharging #ElectricVehicles #EV #ChargeRight #NEC220

Don't want to wait? Run the full NEC 220.82 load calc yourself right now. 60 seconds. $12.99. Built with @AnthropicAI's Claude by a Master Electrician. EVchargeright.com

Homeowners who got an EV charger quote recently: Reply with: - Your panel size (100A / 150A / 200A?) - What the electrician told you - How much they quoted for the "upgrade" We'll reply with what the real NEC 220.82 math says. Free. After 870K+ people saw our founder @walls_jason1 break this down last week — and Mark Cuban reposted it — we've been flooded with panel photos. The pattern is clear: 80% of the panels we assess don't need the upgrade. That's thousands of dollars homeowners almost spent for nothing. Bookmark this for your next quote. Drop yours below — let's see if you actually need it.

@vivilinsv (founder of @souli_ai) wrote about ChargeRight when I had barely sold 15 assessments. She's a TEDx speaker, ex-Reuters TV journalist, and she took a chance on a tradesman with an idea. That article she wrote led to everything that came after. Cuban saw it because people like her amplified it first. If you cover builders early — follow her. She finds them before anyone else does.

Mark Cuban just spotlighted my startup @EV_ChargeRight on Yahoo Finance. I'm a Master Electrician who built an AI tool that tells EV owners if their panel can handle a charger — before they get sold a $3-5K upgrade they don't need. 70% don't need it. Before Yahoo, before Cuban — @vivilinsv was the first journalist to cover this story. She saw it when nobody was paying attention. Thread 🧵

Cuban's point: AI is letting tradespeople and small businesses solve problems that used to require huge teams and VC money. No venture capital. No code school. Just domain expertise + AI. Same energy as Cost Plus Drugs — an industry overcharging people because they don't know better. AI let a tradesman fix that for $12.99. EV owners: have you ever been upsold on a panel upgrade? Reply below 👇

@vivilinsv You were the FIRST to cover ChargeRight when it was just 15 sales and a kitchen table idea. Your story didn't just get noticed — it opened doors. Grateful beyond words. You're the kind of journalist + builder (TEDx, ex-Reuters, @souli_ai, @Vivi_Valley) that real founders need. If you love authentic AI + trades success stories, follow @vivilinsv — she finds the builders before the headlines do.

That's how Main Street wisdom wins! Legendary @mcuban shared million-dollar advice for America's young generation: look for new business opportunities in small businesses with AI solutions! @walls_jason1 Jason Walls is the perfect example! His AI startup @EV_ChargeRight just got featured by @YahooFinance and mentioned by Mark Cuban! Big congrats, Jason! You've inspired many people and will continue to inspire more. I'm grateful to be able to share your story with the world. 🌹🤗