UGREEN 130W Car Charger review

What it is

UGREEN model EC705, also sold under SKU 90889. Three ports — two USB-C and one USB-A — in a 12V socket plug, rated 130 W total, with a 1 meter 5 A USB-C cable in the box. Input is published as 12 to 24 V, so it works in a truck as well as a car.

A 5 A cable is an E-marked cable: above 3 A, USB-C requires a chip in the connector telling the charger it is safe to go higher, and a cable without one caps you at 60 W no matter what the charger can supply. Including one is a real part of the value here — it is the thing the cables page exists to warn people about, and most chargers in this class ship no cable at all.

The reason this product earns a page of its own is not the 130 W. It is that UGREEN publishes a per-port distribution table, which almost nobody in this category does, and that table contradicts the headline in a way worth reading before you buy.

The table, which is the whole review

Here is what each port is rated for on its own, and then what each one actually delivers when you use more than one at a time.

Read the bottom two rows twice. The moment USB-C1 and USB-A are both occupied, they stop being a 30 W port and a 22.5 W port and become two 12 W ports. That happens whether or not the big port is in use — it is a property of those two sharing a rail, not of the charger running out of headroom.

The 100W port is the product

Everything good about this charger is on USB-C2. It is rated 100 W on its own and the published table shows it holding 100 W in every combination, including with both other ports occupied. It is a dedicated rail rather than a share of a pool.

That matters because 100 W is a real laptop charge. A 13-inch ultrabook typically asks for 45 to 65 W and a 16-inch machine 96 to 100 W, so this is the rare car charger that will hold a big laptop at full speed rather than slowing its discharge. What that does and does not solve is worked through in can you charge a laptop in your car.

And it is the reason to pick this over an inverter. An inverter converts 12V DC up to 110V AC so your laptop's own brick can convert it back down to DC — two conversions, both lossy, both producing heat, to arrive where a USB-C PD port starts. If your laptop charges over USB-C, the inverter is a worse answer at a higher price; car power inverters explained has the arithmetic.

130W in a socket that may not supply it

This is the constraint the box does not mention. A 12V accessory socket is typically fused at 10 to 15 amps, and on a lot of cars two sockets share one fuse.

Drawing 130 W out of a 12 V supply means pulling more than 10.8 amps before you count conversion losses — so a fully loaded charger sits at or past a 10 A fuse and uncomfortably close to a 15 A one. In a 24V truck the same130 W is only about 5.4 amps, which is why the 12-24 V input is more than a footnote: this charger is much happier in a truck than in a small car.

• Check the fuse before you load all three ports. The owner's manual lists it, usually as "accessory socket" or "cigar lighter"
• A laptop alone is fine. 100 W is about 8.3 A at 12 V, inside a 10 A fuse with a little room
• Do not run it through a splitter. A socket splitter does not create more fuse, and this charger can use the whole of one on its own

Why there is still a USB-A port

USB-A on a 2026 charger looks like a legacy fitting, and on this one it is the port that drags C1 down to 12 W when both are used. So is it dead weight?

Not quite. It is the port for the things in a car that never moved to USB-C: an older dashcam's power lead, a tire inflator, a passenger's hand-me-down phone, the cable already living in the door pocket. Its 22.5 W SCP rating is also genuinely useful on Huawei and Honor handsets, which is a protocol most chargers skip. The trade-offs between the two connectors are in USB-A vs USB-C in the car.

What it is not is a second fast port. If you want two phones charging properly at once, you want two independent USB-C ports, which is a different product — best multi-port car chargers.

Protocol support, and the one that matters for Samsung

UGREEN lists PD 3.0, QC 4.0, QC 3.0, SCP, AFC and PPS. The one worth singling out is PPS, because Samsung's fastest charging modes need PPS specifically rather than plain USB Power Delivery, and plenty of chargers marketed on wattage alone do not publish PPS support at all.

If you carry a recent Galaxy, PPS is the line on the spec sheet to look for, and this charger has it. The fuller explanation is on best car chargers for Android.

What we cannot tell you

We have not tested this charger. Everything above is UGREEN's own published figures and the arithmetic on top of them. Three things are missing from those figures and we are not going to fill them in:

• No operating-temperature range. This is a power supply that lives in a cabin reaching 60 to 70 C in summer sun, and UGREEN publishes no ceiling for it. Most of this category publishes none either, which is why the site scores that silence rather than ignoring it
• No warranty term. UGREEN does not publish a length for this product on the pages we could read
• No efficiency figure. A charger delivering 100 W is dissipating real heat into a plastic body in a hot socket, and nobody publishes how much

We also found UGREEN's own regional pages and its retail listings disagreeing about USB-C1: most sources publish 30 W, one lists 20 W. The 30 W figure is the one that appears on UGREEN's own listings and in the distribution table, so that is the figure used above — but if the 30 W port is the reason you are buying, check the listing in front of you rather than trusting this page.

Buy it if

• You charge a laptop in the car. This is the case it is built for, and the 100 W port holds its rating no matter what else is connected
• You drive a truck or anything on a 24V system. The published 12-24 V input covers it, and 130 W at 24 V is an easy load
• You do not already own a 100W USB-C cable. One is in the box, and buying it separately is a meaningful fraction of the charger's price
• You carry a recent Samsung. PPS is published, which is the protocol its fastest mode actually needs

Buy something else if

• You are charging two or three phones. The published table puts two of them at 12 W each. A two-port charger where each port keeps its rating is faster and cheaper — see best USB-C car chargers
• There is no laptop. Thirty watts is at or above what any phone accepts, so you are paying for headroom nothing in your pocket can use. The Anker 323 does the phone job for less
• Your car's accessory socket is on a 10A fuse and you intend to load all three ports. Work out the draw first — how many watts do you need
• You need the charger to disappear. This is a three-port body with a light ring, not a flush-fit plug