My garage runs two Ryobi battery platforms at once. The 18V ONE+ packs power my drill, impact driver, and half a dozen bench tools, while the 40V batteries handle the string trimmer and leaf blower out in the yard. Buying into both of Ryobi’s yard and workshop lines meant buying two of nearly everything, chargers included, and those chargers have hogged bench space for years. Ryobi’s newer dual-platform hyper charger changes that math.
A single unit now accepts any ONE+ 18V or 40V pack I own, and it refills them faster than the chargers that shipped in my kits. For anyone straddling both systems, it’s the first Ryobi charger worth clearing space for — with one catch worth knowing before you spend $99.
Two battery platforms that never mixed
Why 18V and 40V stay separate
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Ryobi built its two cordless lineups to live apart. The 18V ONE+ system spans more than 300 tools, most of them the kind that stay indoors or on a workbench: drills, sanders, saws, inflators. The 40V line is smaller, somewhere around 85 products, and it leans almost entirely toward the yard — mowers, trimmers, blowers, and other gas replacements. The two packs look similar at a glance, but they don’t interchange. An 18V ONE+ battery won’t seat in a 40V trimmer, and a 40V pack is dead weight on the workbench.
For years, that divide extended to charging. Each platform came with its own charger, so owning both — as I have since my yard work outgrew what 18V could handle — meant two separate stations and two spots claimed on the bench. Run one platform and you never notice. Straddle both, and the duplication piles up.
One charger that takes either battery
How the dual-platform hyper charger works
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The Ryobi ONE+ 18V/40V Dual Platform Hyper Charger (model PCG007) drops both charging stations into one housing. It reads whichever pack you clip in — 18V ONE+ or 40V — and charges it at the correct rate for that platform. No switch to flip, no adapter to hunt down. Ryobi lists it at $99, and you’ll find it at Home Depot next to the rest of the ONE+ chargers.
Ryobi isn’t new to the dual-charger idea. It sold a slower two-bay model years back that topped off an 18V and a 40V pack side by side. What separates the hyper charger is speed and a smarter internal design. Ryobi’s whole pitch rests on the ONE+ battery doing double duty across the lineup, and this charger stretches that same convenience to the wall outlet — one device instead of a shelf full of them.
The speed is the real upgrade
15-minute 18V charges and 1-hour 40V
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Speed is where the charger earns its name. On the 18V side, it can refill a 4Ah EDGE battery in about 15 minutes, roughly six times quicker than the standard charger bundled into most kits. The 40V side handles a 6Ah pack in around an hour and a 4Ah in closer to 40 minutes, about four times faster than Ryobi’s older 40V charger.
One detail matters if you’re running the numbers on your own packs. That 15-minute figure applies to the newer EDGE batteries, not the High Performance or standard packs a lot of us already keep in rotation. Those still charge quicker than they would on a kit charger, just not in a quarter of an hour. Active cooling helps across the board, since heat is what usually forces a charger to throttle back near the top of a charge.
What you give up for the convenience
One battery at a time
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The catch sits right in the design. The two charging positions overlap, so you can seat only one battery at a time. The older dual charger let you refill an 18V and a 40V pack simultaneously; this one makes you wait your turn. For most weekend projects, that barely registers — you’re rarely draining a trimmer and a drill in the same afternoon.
Push harder and the limit shows. If you burn through packs on both platforms back-to-back, a single-bay charger becomes the bottleneck. Whether it’s right for you comes down to your setup. Own both 18V and 40V gear and want to reclaim your bench? The trade makes sense. Living on one platform means a dedicated fast charger for that system does the same work for less. And if charging two packs at once matters more than raw speed, the older two-bay model still has a place.
Color
Green
What’s Included
Charger and power cable
Is the dual-platform charger worth $99?
For a garage already running both Ryobi systems, $99 buys back bench space and trims your charge times in one move. That’s an easy call if you’ve spent years eyeing two chargers, wondering why a company that sells you one battery ecosystem couldn’t sell you one charger to match it. Go in clear-eyed on the tradeoff: you’re swapping simultaneous charging for speed and a smaller footprint. If that fits how you work, the hyper charger is the cleanest way yet to keep both platforms topped off, and one less thing crowding the workbench.