Allye Energy launches MEV depot EV charger with built-in storage from repurposed EV batteries
Aimed at fleet depots without the grid capacity for rapid charging, the MEV is claimed to deliver up to 400kW across two vehicles from an existing supply without a grid upgrade. Prices start at £70,000, with deliveries expected in Q2 2027.
Clean-tech company Allye Energy has launched the Allye MEV (MAX for EV), a dedicated EV charger with built-in battery storage made from whole repurposed electric vehicle packs, according to Allye's announcement as published by TimesTech Media. Allye describes it as the world's first such product.
Allye says the MEV charges itself from whatever supply a depot already has and can deliver up to 400kW to two vehicles at once, even from a 16A connection, without a grid upgrade. It comes in two variants: the MEV200, with 155kWh of storage, and the MEV300, with 232kWh.
The charger uses an 800V architecture that serves both 400V and 800V vehicles. Allye says it can be charging vehicles within a few hours of arriving on site, connected through industrial sockets or hard-wired, and that it is designed to fit within permitted development. The company says the MEV is engineered and built in the UK, using batteries from UK-registered vehicles and 95% British-sourced components.
The range starts at £70,000, with deliveries expected in Q2 2027, which Allye says is in time for Round 2 of the UK government's Depot Charging Scheme. It is also offered as EV charging as a service, with one inclusive monthly fee and no capital cost, from £1,900 a month for a MEV200.
Allye says a MEV200 is designed to recover its premium over a conventional 200kW charger in two to three years and to save £50,000 to £110,000 over ten years. Those figures rest on Allye's own assumptions about avoided capacity charges, off-peak recharging, wholesale trading and grid-services income, and exclude any saving from an avoided grid upgrade.
The company points to an earlier product, the MAX300, as evidence of the approach. In the Depot Charging Scheme's pre-phase, Allye and partner Chargepoly installed a MAX300 at J&M Murdoch's refuse depot in Glasgow, where a grid upgrade had been quoted at £300,000. Allye says the unit buffers the depot's existing 32A (22kW) supply and powers a satellite DC fast charger supporting two electric vehicles and supplying around 200kWh a day. It says more than 20 MAX systems, built from over 100 repurposed batteries, are in service with customers including JLR and Roadchef.
Jonathan Carrier, Allye's founder and chief executive, said the MEV is for chargers that stay in one place, while the MAX300 is for energy that needs to move. "We have built two ranges, not two versions of the same thing," he said. "If the charger stays put and only ever charges vehicles, MEV does it on the supply you already have, often for less than the connection works it replaces."
Allye is appointing distribution partners for the MEV range in the UK and internationally, including installers, charge point operators and fleet energy specialists.
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