Bluetti Elite 100 V2 Portable Power Station

We have wanted to buy a portable power station to run our Dometic fridge/freezer that we take with us on road trips for a long time, but have always held off due to expensive products or feature set not quite there yet. We attended the 2026 Caravan and Camping Show in Sydney and came across a vendor selling the Bluetti range of portable power stations. We had not heard of Bluetti before, and the vendor gave us an excellent overview of who Bluetti were, their current product range and the things you can do with them.

We were impressed with the feature set and price balance of the Bluetti Elite 100 V2, a battery with 1024Wh of capacity and 1800W output which would easily handle our fridge and a number of other travel items.

The unit features DC and AC outputs along with some USB outputs including a 100w USB-C outlet that you can use to charge a modern laptop with.

In testing, the battery was successfully able to run our portable fridge/freezer in freezer mode (so this represented maximum power usage) for nearly three straight days in DC mode. We believe that had we primed the freezer first (so it was already cold), it would have lasted the full three days. That's awesome.

The unit unexpectedly also features a UPS mode as well! You can connect it to mains power, connect your device to one of the AC outlets, kill the mains power supply and the unit will kick over into UPS mode in 10ms. This is much longer than a "proper" computer UPS that usually does it in 2ms, but for the vast majority of consumer electronics equipment, 10ms is perfectly adequate and is a lot faster than our house battery that takes 1000ms to switchover in a blackout situation.

We have now bought a second Elite 100 V2 to specifically drive our network gear and CCTV NVR at home to keep the Internet and general security coverage running in a blackout (runs the gear for approximately 3-4 hours give or take activity load). While the unit does not have a USB or RS232 output to notify a computer that battery mode is on, it would not be hard to rig up a script to poll a device that is deliberately not on UPS power, and when it stops responding for more than ten seconds, you could then safely assume you're on battery and take the appropriate action.

For other uses, the battery could easily drive a 55" display panel for 6-8 hours if you needed to power something where a mains outlet was not available - the multitude of uses for it is endless.

The mobile application is excellent. In it, you can connect to the battery through Bluetooth and then configure the unit to connect to your home wifi network, and this will allow you to monitor your battery from anywhere as long as the unit has Internet access. Firmware updates are a breeze too.

The unit provides estimated battery life based on what is connected, but it is difficult for the app to provide you an accurate time remaining if the devices don't do a constant pull. This means UPS mode will show a more accurate battery remaining time than DC mode will, where devices like fridges tend to go on and off rather than constantly pull. Obviously this is not a fault of the app.

In terms of recharging, it only takes around an hour to full recharge, but if you enable fast charging, it will double its pull from AC and fully recharge in less than 45 minutes. You also have the ability to plug in a solar panel or blanket and recharge it that way in about two hours. Assuming a perfectly sunny day, it is perfectly possible to run equipment in UPS mode and have the battery recharge at the same time from solar, which is a very cool feature. It was interesting to discover that a lot of people are now using Bluetti and competing power stations as home UPS units over your traditional computer-targeted UPS brands like APC because they were cheaper and just as effective for less money.

The unit itself is 11kg, and is easy to carry with the generously large carry handle. The display is easy to read and you do not need the app to operate the unit. There are three buttons on the front to turn the battery on and off in general and the other two buttons are to turn DC or AC outlets on and off. You can run both at the same time if you desire, and if one or the other does not receive any pull of power for a period of time, the battery will automatically turn those outlets off.

This is an excellent value for money purchase. Bluetti provide generous discounts during sales events such as EOFY and the vendor at the Caravan and Camping Show gave us quite a discount as well, which encouraged us to buy in the first place.

I have no hesitation in recommending Bluetti as a portable battery solution to anyone.