Cargalicante installs electric car charging points across Alicante and the whole Costa Blanca, and deals with you in English from the first message to the final certificate. We fit a certified wallbox where your car actually sleeps — the villa garage, your space in the communal car park, the business car park — wire it to instruction ITC-BT-52 of the Spanish regulations, sign it off with the electrical installation certificate, and give you the price in writing before anyone touches a cable. One trade, one province: charging points, from the Vega Baja to the Marina Alta.
We have your installation details. You will get a guide price today and a fixed quote after the site survey. We will be in touch within 24 hours.
* 15 % of the amount invested, on a maximum base of 4,000 €, for installations completed before 31/12/2026. It is a deduction inside the Spanish resident income-tax return (IRPF) — see who can claim it.
01How it works
Three steps from the first message to a car charging in your own space — and the first two are free. No small print along the way.
Use the form or WhatsApp: your town, whether the car sits in a villa garage, a communal underground car park or a business, and — if you can — a photo of your consumer unit. You get a price range back the same day, in English, with nobody chasing you afterwards.
The site survey costs nothing. We measure the real cable run from your meter to the parking space, check the power your supply is contracted at, look at where the sun hits in the afternoon and work out the tidiest route. That visit is what turns a guess into a fixed written quote.
The circuit goes in to instruction ITC-BT-52 of the Spanish wiring regulations, we test it with your own car, and we hand over the electrical installation certificate (the boletín, or CIE) registered with the regional authority. Most homes are done in a single day.
02Who we install for
This is the classic Costa Blanca job: a villa in Ciudad Quesada, a townhouse in Gran Alacant, a bungalow in La Zenia, a chalet on the slopes of the Montgó. The charger hangs off your own consumer unit, the run is short and the work is over in an afternoon. If the car sleeps outside, we pick a unit and fixings that will live happily with sun and sea air.
More on this →Apartment blocks in Benidorm, Torrevieja or central Alicante share an underground car park, and this is where most people assume they will be told "no". Spanish law says otherwise: you notify the community, you do not ask it. We run a dedicated line from your own meter to your space, meter it separately, and write the notification letter for you.
More on this →Guests who drive an EV book the hotel that can charge them, and rental villas advertising a charger rent better. From a single point for the company car to a full car park with load sharing, user identification and billing per session, we size it, install it and certify it.
More on this →03The company
Search for a charging point and you will find national franchises running the same cloned page for fifty provinces, and solar companies who throw the charger in as an afterthought. We do the opposite: one province, one trade, and the whole job — survey, quote, paperwork, handover — explained in a language you actually make decisions in.
A three-level basement under a Benidorm tower has nothing in common with the open carport of a bungalow in Gran Alacant, or with a villa on the Montgó where the meter sits forty metres from the house. Knowing those situations — and knowing that in Crevillent or Callosa the network is not Iberdrola's but the village cooperative's — is the difference between a real quote and a number off a price list.
An installation without its certificate is a problem you have postponed, and on this coast it surfaces at the worst moment: when you sell. Every job we finish leaves you with the electrical installation certificate registered with the regional industry authority and an itemised invoice — the documents your buyer's lawyer, your insurer and the Spanish tax office will each want to see.
You get the price broken down line by line before we start: equipment, cable run, protective devices, certification. No day rates, no "we'll see when we open the wall".
You will not find "up to 70 % grants" splashed across this page. The Spanish MOVES scheme closed at the end of 2025; what remains is the 15 % income-tax relief, and only for Spanish tax residents. We say so.
The whole province: the southern urbanisations, the two Marinas, the city and the inland valleys. 141 towns, with the local detail that matters — where salt bites, where it freezes, and whose network you are connected to.
04Guide prices 2026
We publish ranges before we meet you, so you can compare properly instead of collecting three mystery numbers. The single biggest variable is the distance between your meter and the parking space — which is exactly why the binding figure is signed after we measure it, not before.
A 7.4 kW wallbox off the house consumer unit, with the short cable run typical of a detached property, its protective devices and all the certification.
790 – 1,400 €TurnkeyA dedicated line from your own meter down to your space, your consumption metered separately, and the written notice to the community drafted by us.
1,200 – 2,400 €By cable runFrom a single point to a car park with load sharing, user identification and billing per session. Designed and quoted case by case.
from 1,500 €Per pointWhen the wiring is already there and all that is missing is the unit: from a basic single-phase box to a connected charger with solar surplus mode.
400 – 1,400 €By modelThe dominant line in any quote: the further the charger sits from the electrical origin, the more cable, more trunking and more hours on site.
Surface-run trunking in an open carport is quick work. Threading a route through two basement levels and their concrete slabs is not, and the price shows it.
Moving from a 7.4 kW single-phase unit to a 22 kW three-phase one means a different charger, a heavier cable and sometimes a different electricity contract.
Solar surplus control, a dedicated meter, sharing between two cars, access control: each extra exists for a reason and each one has a cost.
Be wary of the suspiciously cheap quote. What is usually missing is what you cannot see: the certificate, the registration, the regulation protective devices. That is precisely the gap between a smart-looking socket and a legal, certified installation. Always ask for the breakdown; ours arrives itemised whether you ask or not.
Market ranges observed in 2026 while our own price list is finalised. They are not an offer: the binding figure is issued in writing after the free site survey.
05Scope
Hanging the box on the wall is the last ten minutes. What you are actually paying for is everything before and after it — and this is what goes into every Cargalicante job:
06The legal position
If your property in Spain came with a space in a shared underground car park, this is the section that matters most — and the one where owners used to a British managing agent get the biggest surprise. Nobody has to approve your charger.
For a charging point for your own private use in your own space, the Spanish Horizontal Property Act asks for one thing: prior written notice to the president or the administrator of the community. It does not go on the agenda of the AGM, it is not voted on, and no majority is required. It is a right you exercise, not a favour you request — and we write the letter, with the cable route described.
The last objection some administrators used has now been closed off: the fact that the cable has to run across ceilings, service ducts or the meter room does not turn your installation into a matter for the community, because there is no other physical way to reach your space. Anyone opposing it would have to prove serious harm, and the burden of proving it is theirs.
The line runs from your own supply, or is fitted with individual metering for your space, so not a single kilowatt-hour of your charging touches the community meter. That is recorded in the certificate — the document that settles the question for any administrator who asks.
Where more than one car ends up charging in the same basement, a load manager shares the available power between whichever points are active, leaving the building's main supply untouched. What you install today makes it easier for the neighbour who follows you, not harder.
* In buildings where most owners are non-resident, the notice can be served on the professional administrator. We will tell you exactly who to send it to.
07Sizing
The instinct that more kilowatts must be better works for engines, not for home charging. What actually sets the pace is your car's onboard charger, the supply your house has, and the number of hours the car sits still — which, overnight, is all of them.
| Power | Supply | 55 kWh, 0 to 100 % |
|---|---|---|
| 3.7 kW — basic | Single-phase (16 A) | ~15 h |
| 7.4 kW — the home standardRecommended | Single-phase (32 A) | ~7.5 h |
| 11 kW | Three-phase (16 A) | ~5 h |
| 22 kW | Three-phase (32 A) | ~2.5 h |
Rounded figures: real charging speed also depends on the car's own electronics and your contracted power. The useful sum is a different one — at 7.4 kW, one night in the garage comfortably replaces a normal day's driving on this coast.
The system watches the household load and gives the car only what is spare: the air conditioning starts and charging steps back; it stops and charging picks up again. Your contracted limit is always respected — which is what makes low-capacity holiday supplies workable.
11 and 22 kW units need a three-phase supply and belong in businesses and car parks with real turnover. In a house, that budget usually does more good spent on solar surplus control or a properly connected unit.
Daily distance, the car you drive, the power you have contracted and the shape of your parking space: those four give the right rating. No manufacturer pays us commission, so the advice comes with nothing attached.
08Equipment
We fit manufacturers with a track record and service in Spain — which matters far more than the brochure when a unit needs a part in three years' time. Which model goes on your wall is decided by your installation, never by a commercial agreement of ours.
A tethered cable is one movement when you arrive; a socket keeps the wall tidy and lets you use your own cable. It depends on how you park and who else will use the point — we settle it at the survey.
Current V2C and Wallbox ranges read your photovoltaic system and charge on the surplus. With this much sunshine, ordering a wallbox without that function is leaving free kilometres on the roof.
Front-line properties and coastal urbanisations have a quiet enemy: salt. We choose enclosure, IP rating and fixings for that environment, and pick the most sheltered face of the wall.
Driving a Tesla? There is a page for that: Tesla charger installation in Alicante — official Wall Connector or a wallbox with solar surplus mode.
09Connectivity
No connection makes a car charge faster; what it buys you is control. And in a province where thousands of houses sit empty for months, being able to look at your charger from 2,000 km away stops being a gimmick.
| Connection | What it gives you | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|
| Bluetooth | Settings and session data from your phone, standing next to the unit. No remote access. | Anyone who just wants to plug in and forget about it. |
| Wi-fiRecommended | The charger joins your home network: schedules, consumption history, locking from the app, firmware updates and the link to your solar inverter. Plus supervision from wherever you happen to be. | The sensible choice for any home — and close to essential for a property you do not live in year-round. |
| Ethernet / 4G | A permanent link over the OCPP protocol: load sharing between points, identified users, billing per session and a management platform. | Communities with several points, hotels, businesses and car parks. |
At the survey we check what signal genuinely reaches your space — a two-level basement swallows wi-fi — and decide together. Moving up a level later usually means changing the unit, so it pays to get it right first time.
10Solar
This province gets close to 3,000 hours of sunshine a year. If your roof already generates — and on this coast a great many do — every midday spent with the car parked and the wrong charger on the wall is energy handed back to the grid for very little.
The wallbox asks your inverter what is spare and takes only that. It moves at the speed of the sky — slower, certainly — but every kilometre is free and none of it comes off the grid. Between spring and autumn here, that adds up faster than people expect.
You set a minimum charging rate and let the surplus stack on top: the car is full when you need it and the solar share takes the edge off the bill. This is the mode most people settle on once the novelty passes.
We leave the solar function dormant. The day the panels go up, adding the export meter and pairing the inverter is enough for the same unit to start charging on surplus. No second installation.
The Valencian regional government allows a deduction of 40 % of a self-consumption solar installation on your main home (20 % on other properties), on a base of up to 8,800 €. It does not cover the charger itself, but it does mean panels and wallbox make more sense together than apart. As always: Spanish tax residents, and confirm it with your accountant.
How far does it go? In summer, an ordinary domestic roof produces enough surplus for the 40–60 km a day of someone commuting along this coast. The exact figure comes out of your own consumption data at the survey.
11Local conditions
July and August change everything here. The population multiplies, the public chargers are permanently occupied and the nights stay warm. It is the worst possible month to depend on the street, and the best possible argument for a charger in your own space.
The smart move is to charge in the small hours: the Spanish 2.0TD tariff opens its off-peak window from midnight to 8 a.m. on weekdays — and keeps it open all weekend and on national holidays. It is the cheapest electricity of the day and the coolest, which the battery appreciates. Every unit leaves us with that schedule already set: you plug in when you park, and the charger waits for its hour.
Then there is the condition no national brochure mentions: salt. On a coastline this densely lived-in, choosing an enclosure, gaskets and fixings that tolerate sea air is not a detail — it is the difference between a unit that lasts a decade and one that looks tired after two summers. It is part of our specification, not an upgrade.
Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays are off-peak for the full 24 hours; regional and local holidays are not.
Of sunshine a year in the province — which is why solar charging has a section of its own here.
Annual rainfall in Alicante city: one of the driest corners of Europe. The roof works nearly every day.
The off-peak window: the cheapest power of the day lands in the coolest hours of the night.
What it costs to fill a ~50 kWh battery overnight: less than lunch, and several hundred kilometres.
By now you know the ranges, the rating that suits you and the paperwork a proper job leaves behind. The only thing we cannot know without you is what your parking space looks like. Tell us, and your first figure arrives today.
We have your installation details. You will get a guide price today and a fixed quote after the site survey. We will be in touch within 24 hours.
12Grants & tax 2026
Half the internet still advertises Spanish grants that closed months ago. Here is where things actually stand in 2026 — including the part that applies to you only if you file a Spanish resident tax return.
You can deduct 15 % of what you invest in the charging point, on a maximum base of 4,000 € — up to 600 € off your tax bill. Two conditions are not negotiable: the installation must be finished before the end of 2026, and the payment must leave a bank trail (card, transfer or cheque — cash cancels the relief outright). Any grant received for the work is subtracted from the base.
Good news for holiday homes: the rule does not require the property to be your main home. It says "a property you own" that is not assigned to a business activity — so the villa by the beach and a space in a communal garage both qualify. (A property running as a holiday-let business does not.)
Who can actually claim it: this is a deduction inside the Spanish resident income-tax return, so it is for people who are tax resident in Spain — nationality is irrelevant. If you own the property as a non-resident and pay the annual non-resident tax instead, that tax has no equivalent deduction; and since Brexit, UK residents cannot use the EU/EEA option to be taxed as a resident either. We would rather say so plainly than let you plan around it.
The MOVES III scheme closed on 31 December 2025 and no new charging-point round has opened in the Valencia region since. And unlike some other Spanish regions, the Valencian Community has no regional deduction for the charger itself — the 10 % figure still circulating on blogs no longer exists.
What does exist, for other parts of the puzzle: the national Auto+ scheme subsidises buying the electric car (up to 4,500 €, applications open until 31/12/2026) though not the charging point; the Valencian 40 % deduction on solar self-consumption rewards the panels on your main home; and companies can apply accelerated depreciation to charging infrastructure. Some town halls may reduce local property or building tax for a charging point — it is optional for them and uncommon, so check yours.
Informational content reviewed in August 2026 against official sources (AEAT, BOE, IVACE/GVA). This is general information, not tax advice: rules change and the outcome depends on your own return, so confirm it with your accountant or gestor. We do not guarantee any grant.
13Regulations
A charging point is an electrical installation with its own chapter in the Spanish regulations, not a smart socket. We build it to that standard and absorb the paperwork; what reaches you is a finished folder.
The instruction written specifically for electric vehicle charging: a dedicated circuit with protection of its own — a 30 mA RCD and its MCB — and justified cable cross-sections. One point that saves money without cutting corners: a type A RCD with 6 mA DC detection satisfies the regulation in most homes, and the type B device that inflates some quotes is rarely necessary.
Every job closes with its electrical installation certificate — the document Spain calls the boletín or CIE — registered with the industry service of the Generalitat Valenciana in Alicante. In a home, the technical memorandum is enough; larger projects carry engineering design, and that is on us too. Keep it: it is what your buyer's lawyer will ask for.
Across most of the province the distribution network belongs to i-DE, part of the Iberdrola group, regardless of which company bills you for electricity. But Alicante keeps a quirk the national franchises never learn: in Crevillent, Callosa de Segura, Catral, Albatera and Biar the network is run by the town's own electricity cooperative, some of them almost a century old. Whoever yours is, if your job needs notifying or the power increasing, we do it with your CUPS number.
Itemised quote and invoice, the certificate, the unit's technical sheet and its warranty. That folder answers the tax office about the relief, your insurer if anything ever happens, and the buyer's solicitor the day the property changes hands.
14Business
In a province that lives on visitors, the hotel that can charge an EV keeps the booking, and a rental villa that advertises a charger moves up every search filter. Add the delivery vans going electric around Torrellano and the Vinalopó industrial estates, and the case makes itself. We design from a single point up to a full car park.
The load manager shares the spare power between whichever points are running: start with two spaces, go to ten, all hanging off the same electrical origin.
Identified users, history per vehicle and the OCPP protocol for billing — to the employee, the guest or the customer parking, whichever model you run.
Spanish companies can apply free depreciation to charging infrastructure in corporation tax (in force for 2026). Your accountant will confirm what it means for your figures.
15Coverage
From Pilar de la Horadada to Dénia, and from the seafront to the inland valleys — this is how the map divides up in practice.
The biggest concentration of foreign homeowners in Spain, and the part of the province where the car is not optional: Torrevieja is the largest Spanish city with no railway station at all. Bungalows and townhouses with their own parking, owners who spend part of the year abroad, and summers when every public charging point is taken.
Torrevieja · Orihuela Costa · Ciudad Quesada · Rojales · Guardamar · Pilar de la Horadada · San Fulgencio · Algorfa
Hillside villas with pools, solar panels and long private driveways, plus the vertical world of Benidorm where everything happens in a communal garage. Two completely different installations, often on the same afternoon, and both with the sea close enough to matter when choosing materials.
Dénia · Xàbia (Jávea) · Moraira · Calp · Altea · Albir · Alfàs del Pi · La Nucía · Benidorm · Villajoyosa
Flats with a space in the basement, and a ring of townhouses and villas around the beach and the university where the charger goes straight onto the house consumer unit. Gran Alacant, right by the airport, is its own small international town.
Alicante · Playa de San Juan · San Vicente del Raspeig · Sant Joan · El Campello · Mutxamel · Santa Pola · Gran Alacant
The working province: the shoe factories of Elche and Elda, the toy industry of Ibi, the textile mills of Alcoy. Fewer foreign residents, more fleets and industrial units — and in Alcoy, at 550 metres, genuinely cold winters that change how a battery behaves.
Elche · Crevillent · Elda · Petrer · Novelda · Aspe · Villena · Alcoy · Ibi
If your town is not on the list, write anyway: the whole province is within reach.
16Why Cargalicante
No commission-only salesman, no anonymous subcontractor. Whoever walks around your garage is who puts their signature on the certificate — and who is still here, in this province, when you have a question next year.
Price ranges out in the open, quotes itemised line by line, and a grants section that says "closed" when something is closed. People who compare on facts tend to choose us; people looking for a miracle are better off elsewhere.
Solar surplus mode because the sky here pays for it, materials that stand up to salt because half the province sleeps beside the sea, and connected units because thousands of these houses are empty for months. Alicante is not one square on our map: it is the whole map.
We survey the property within 24 to 48 hours, and once you accept the quote a normal home installation is finished in a single day. What adds time is rarely the electrical work: it is the written notice to the community when your space is in a shared garage, or an unusually long cable run from the meter to the parking space.
No, and this surprises almost everyone who has owned property in the UK or Ireland. Article 17.5 of the Spanish Horizontal Property Act treats a charging point for your own space as a right: you send prior written notice to the president or the administrator of the community and you go ahead. There is no vote, no AGM item and no majority to win. The Spanish Supreme Court confirmed in December 2025 that this holds even when the cable has to cross communal areas of the garage. We draft that notice for you, with the cable route set out.
No — and it is better to know now than at the accountant's office. The 15 % relief on charging points (up to a 4,000 € base, so a maximum of 600 €) is a deduction inside the Spanish resident income-tax return, the IRPF. If you own the property as a non-resident and pay the annual non-resident tax instead, that tax simply has no deductions of this kind. Nationality has nothing to do with it: a German or Irish owner who is tax resident in Spain claims it exactly like a Spaniard, while a Spaniard living abroad cannot. One extra note since Brexit: UK residents cannot use the EU/EEA option to be taxed as a resident either, because that route is only open to residents of EU or EEA countries. The installation, the certificate and the itemised invoice are identical either way.
No, and this is the part most people get wrong. The Spanish rule talks about a charging point installed at "a property you own" that is not assigned to a business activity — the words "main home" appear nowhere. A holiday villa qualifies, and so does a space in a communal garage where you are a co-owner. So if you are tax resident in Spain, the charger at the beach house counts. The one real limit: if the property is used for a business activity — a holiday-let operation with services, for instance — the relief falls away, and if you assign it to one later you lose what you already claimed. When you file, your accountant will need the installer's tax number, the completion date and the property's cadastral reference; all of that is on the invoice we give you.
For the invoice, yes. Spanish invoicing rules require the customer's tax number when the work is carried out here by a Spanish business, so your NIE (or the NIF the tax office issues to non-residents) goes on it. The same identification appears on the electrical installation certificate as the owner of the installation, and no supplier or distribution company will process a change of contracted power without it. If you own property here you will already have one; if not, it is a straightforward application. Worth checking too: the electricity contract holder and the property owner are not always the same person after a sale.
For the single-phase supply almost every Spanish home has, a 7.4 kW wallbox. Plug in when you get back and the car is full by morning. Going to 11 or 22 kW requires a three-phase supply and, in day-to-day home use, changes very little, because the car's own onboard charger and your contracted power set the pace anyway.
Usually not, and this matters here because a lot of holiday properties were contracted at 3.45 or 4.6 kW to keep the standing charge down. We fit the charger with dynamic load management: a meter watches what the house is drawing and hands the car only the amps that are spare, so the total never exceeds what you pay for and nothing trips — not even with the air conditioning running. If you would rather increase the contracted power anyway, we handle that with the distributor.
It is worth sorting out first. Any paperwork with the distribution company — a change of contracted power, or registering the installation where that applies — is done in the name of whoever holds the supply contract, so having it in your name keeps everything clean and makes the installation certificate match the property. It is a straightforward change with your supplier, and we will tell you at the survey whether your particular job needs it at all.
Filling a 50 kWh battery overnight on the off-peak window works out at roughly 5 to 8 €, which is several hundred kilometres of driving; in normal use expect 15 to 30 € a month on the electricity bill. The same charge at a public rapid charger costs considerably more. If you have solar panels, the midday surplus brings the cost close to zero.
It will damage the wrong charger. Salt-laden air corrodes cheap fixings and degrades enclosures that were never specified for it, and on this coast that is a year-round fact, not a winter one. On front-line and urbanisation properties we use units with a suitable IP rating, corrosion-resistant fixings, and we site the box away from direct afternoon sun whenever the space allows. Chosen properly, a wallbox lives with the Mediterranean perfectly well.
Yes, and with close to 3,000 hours of sunshine a year it is one of the best reasons to install one. A charger with surplus management reads what your inverter is exporting and diverts it to the car: in pure solar mode you charge on sunshine alone at almost no cost, and in mixed mode it tops up from the grid so the car is ready by a set time. If the panels are still a plan rather than a fact, we leave the function dormant and ready.
Across nearly all of Alicante the network belongs to i-DE, part of the Iberdrola group, whoever you buy your electricity from. A handful of towns — Crevillent, Callosa de Segura, Catral, Albatera and Biar — are supplied by their own historic electricity cooperative instead. If your job needs the installation notified or the power increased, we do that with your CUPS number, whichever of them it is.
That is exactly when it pays. In July and August the coastal population multiplies and public chargers are busiest precisely when you are here. A connected wallbox is supervised from your phone wherever you are, so you can land in August, drive from the airport on what is left in the battery and find the charger waiting — after a winter with the shutters closed.
Yes. The Type 2 socket in mode 3 is the European standard for AC charging and fits every electric and plug-in hybrid sold here, now and for years to come. And because the installation is certified in your name, the charging point stays with the property and adds to it when you come to sell or rent.
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We have your installation details. You will get a guide price today and a fixed quote after the site survey. We will be in touch within 24 hours.
18Contact
Your town, the type of space and — if you feel like it — a photo of the consumer unit. That is enough to start. The range arrives the same day; the fixed price after the survey, which is free.
Free site survey · certificate and registration included · solar surplus mode · tax paperwork documented · across all 141 towns of the province.