Bluetti Elite 100 V2 Review — The Quietest Unit I Tested, With 1,000 W of Solar

I ran it from full to shutdown on a constant 300 W load with a meter at the AC outlet. It lasted exactly three hours and delivered 892 watt-hours from a rated 1,024 Wh — 87.1%.

That's the best of the four 1 kWh units on my bench, just ahead of the Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2's 884 Wh, and within 2 Wh of the 890 Wh OutdoorGearLab published.[1]

My test room's noise floor was 32 dBA. At about 500 W, the Elite 100 V2 measured 34 dBA at one metre — two decibels above silence. At full output it reached 47 dBA, the lowest maximum of any full-size unit I tested.

In practice: I never noticed it, including overnight in the bedroom with my CPAP plugged in. It's the only unit of the eleven that got 5 out of 5 from me for noise.

1,000 W maximum, 12–60 V, 20 A.[2] I measured 940 W going in from my array at noon. Against its class, on my panels:

On the two 100 W panels most people start with, every unit here is limited to about 150 W of real input and the ceiling doesn't matter. The moment you add a third and fourth panel, the Jackery is capped and this one isn't.

It also came with a solar cable in the box as well as the AC cable — a small thing, but it meant I was charging from panels the first afternoon.

72 minutes empty to full, with input peaking at 1,210 W. That beats Bluetti's own 1.8-hour claim comfortably, but it's the slowest of the four 1 kWh units I tested.[3]

If you top up between uses on a Friday evening, twenty minutes matters. If you charge from the sun, it doesn't.

Calculated from my measured capacity — assumptions here.

25.0 lb on my scale, matching Bluetti's figure. Compact and easy to wedge behind a car seat; I rated handling 4 out of 5.

The shell is solid, but the port covers feel a bit thin. The screen is big and bright enough to read in direct sun — the best display in its class. All the ports are on the front, which I liked, though there are only four AC outlets, and the USB-C ports topped out at 100 W in my testing.

LiFePO4 rated for 4,000 cycles to 80% capacity, five-year warranty.[3] It held 1,800 W for ten minutes; in my step-up test it tripped at 2,650 W. Bluetti's 3,600 W surge figure refers to momentary peaks, which I didn't test separately.[2]

• Slowest wall recharge in its class at 72 minutes.
• Most expensive per usable watt-hour of the 1 kWh units at list — about $1.01, against the Anker's $0.57 for almost identical energy.
• No expansion.[3]
• Thin port covers, and only four AC outlets.

Its measured score is held back by value at list price. Blend in my hands-on ratings and it ties the EcoFlow Delta 3 for second overall, and first in the 1 kWh class.

After 37 days I'd buy the Elite 100 V2 again. It's the quietest power station I tested, it took 940 W from my panels, and its screen is the easiest to read outdoors. It ran my CPAP for three nights and I never heard it.

The catch is a slower wall recharge than its rivals, and a list price that makes it poor value if you won't use the solar ceiling or the silence. The Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 delivers the same energy and refills faster for much less.

If you're sleeping beside it, or running an array — a cabin, a van roof, a deck full of panels — this is the unit.