EV Charger and Robotaxi Charging Installation in Madison, WI

Level 2 units at 2.9 to 19.2 kW, per the Department of Energy, for long stays, and DC fast units up to 500 kW, adding 100 to 200+ miles in roughly 30 minutes.

Isthmus apartments, state and office garages, UW-area housing, hospital staff lots and west-side office parks are Level 2 sites. Fast charging suits retail on the Beltline, stops near I-39/90 and delivery fleets.

We design, permit, build and operate, and charging income lands in the parking report.

260 Level 2 and 81 DC fast ports at 122 public stations with Madison addresses, per Department of Energy data pulled Oct 14, 2026.

Suburbs add more: Sun Prairie lists 30 Level 2 and 8 fast ports, and Middleton 11 and 8. Janesville, on I-39/90 to the south, has 52 fast ports along the interstate.

Madison's row in our EV charging ports database updates monthly from the same source.

Madison Gas and Electric serves most of Madison. It has filed with the Public Service Commission for a Commercial EV Charging Allowance of $300 per kW on certain commercial rates, capped at 5 MW and $1.5 million in total, and it offers EV fleet analysis.

Because the allowance was filed as a proposal, we check whether it has been approved and what its terms are before counting on it. Some addresses on the edges are served by other utilities, which we confirm first.

MGE reviews whether service can carry the load and designs any upgrade. That request starts on day one.

An electrical permit from the Building Inspection Division, a DSPS-licensed contractor, wiring to NEC Article 625 and an accessible space per the U.S. Access Board's guidance.

In districts with no minimum, stalls can become charging spaces freely; elsewhere we check §28.141 first. A transformer pad may need plan review. Madison lists no review target; we plan three to six weeks, an estimate.

The accessible space is placed first, with level ground, a side aisle and reachable controls.

MGE's proposed allowance, if approved, and WisDOT's WEVI program, which made 53 conditional NEVI awards in May 2024 for corridor fast charging. For federal taxes, the 30C credit is unavailable for chargers placed in service after June 30, 2026 (IRS, Instructions for Form 8911).

WEVI sites sit on designated corridors like I-39/90 and I-94, so a travel stop might fit a later round while a campus garage would not. The IRS instructions set the 30C cutoff.

In Madison, strong EV adoption often makes the case on demand alone.

By our estimate, eight Level 2 ports cost about $31,100 to $70,100 installed in Madison and two DC fast ports about $97,000 to $292,000.

Isthmus garages can be tight for conduit runs; suburban surface lots spend more on trenching. Fast charging usually needs new MGE service.

Level 2 on an existing panel takes 8–16 weeks and fast charging on new service 26–52 weeks, by our estimate. We scale national per-port costs and AFDC's installation guidance by Madison's BEA index of 97.3.

From our parking platform: Wins sets prices, adds idle fees after a grace period, monitors ports at all hours, cites gas cars in EV stalls and reports charging with parking.

At apartment buildings, residents pay through their parking accounts, and idle fees rotate cars so more residents get a turn. Faults reach our operations desk for a remote reset or a technician. Reports show energy, uptime, revenue and citations.

This is our EV charging parking management service, paired with parking management in Madison.

Madison's 260 Level 2 and 81 fast ports lead the region; Milwaukee, 74 miles east, has 135 and 33, per AFDC data pulled Oct 14, 2026.

Utilities vary: MGE in Madison and Middleton, Sun Prairie's municipal utility, Alliant Energy in Janesville and We Energies in Milwaukee.