Allego is the operator of a

fast charging network A fast charging network, or more specifically an HPC charging network, is a network of publicly accessible fast charging stations for electric vehicles. A fast charging network is a subtype of an electric vehicle charging network.Various providers ...

for

electric car An electric car or electric vehicle (EV) is a passenger car, passenger automobile that is propelled by an electric motor, electric traction motor, using electrical energy as the primary source of propulsion. The term normally refers to a p ...

s based in the Netherlands.

History

The company was founded in September 2013 under the name ''Alliander Mobility Services'' as a subsidiary of Alliander NV from Arnhem, a utility company, and renamed to ''Allego'' in June 2014.. The parent company had been active in Berlin since 2006 with its ''Stadtlicht GmbH''. Through this mainstay, Allego won a tender from the state of Berlin to operate the EV

charging stations A charging station, also known as a charge point, chargepoint, or electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), is a power supply device that supplies electrical power for recharging plug-in electric vehicles (including battery electric vehicle ...

in January 2015. The corresponding contracts with Allego GmbH were extended in 2019. In autumn 2015, Allego began building a network of fast-charging stations along German motorways. In 2016, Allego took over the construction of 40 fast chargers with 50 kW in the "Fast-E" project with funding from the EU. In January 2018, Allego presented the "Mega-E" project, again using EU funding, to build an

HPC charging network A fast charging network, or more specifically an HPC charging network, is a network of publicly accessible fast charging stations for electric vehicles. A fast charging network is a subtype of an electric vehicle charging network.Various providers ...

with 322 locations and 27 e-charging hubs. A total of 1,300 HPC charging points with up to 350 kW were to be built by 2025. From 2021, Allego also began converting the "Fast-E" locations to HPC charging stations. However, the sites had already been prepared for 350 kW. In July 2022, Allego exercised a purchase option on the 100 locations with 770 fast chargers that had already been built. Allego was sold to a French infrastructure fund,

Meridiam Meridiam is a global investor and asset manager based in Paris specialized in developing, financing and managing long-term public infrastructure projects. Founded in 2005, Meridiam invests in public infrastructure across Europe, Africa and the Am ...

, on May 31, 2018. In April 2020, it was announced that every second job at Allego would be cut. Since then, it has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) through a merger with a

SPAC SPAC primarily refers to a special-purpose acquisition company, a method of taking a company public by merging it with an already public investment company. SPAC may also refer to: * Henry Crown Sports and Aquatics Center, a sports facility at No ...

.{{cite web, url=https://www.electrive.com/2021/07/29/allego-to-ipo-via-merger-with-spartan/, title=Allego to IPO via merger with Spartan, publisher=electrive.com, date=2024-01-30

References

Dutch companies established in 2013 Electric vehicle infrastructure developers Transport companies of the Netherlands Charging stations