Our BLUETTI Elite 100 Mini Review: Small Enough for Travel, Strong Enough for Home Backup

We’ve tested a few larger BLUETTI power stations over the years, and they’ve been useful when we wanted serious backup power. The tradeoff is pretty obvious, though. Bigger batteries take up more room, weigh more, and aren’t necessarily something you casually grab on the way out the door.That’s what made the BLUETTI Elite 100 Mini interesting to us.It has a 1,004Wh LiFePO₄ battery, but weighs about 23.6 pounds and has a compact, upright design. In other words, it has enough battery capacity to be useful for more than charging a couple of phones, while still being small enough to take camping, throw in the car for a road trip, or bring along when you want to work somewhere away from an outlet.For this review, we wanted to see how that actually translated into everyday use. So we took it down to the lake for a picnic/work afternoon with our laptop, phones, camera and assorted travel tech. We also tried it at home as backup power for something considerably bigger: our refrigerator.Quick deal: BLUETTI Fall Prime DayBLUETTI’s Fall Prime Day sale in Canada runs October 6 to October 7, with the Elite 100 Mini reduced from C$599 to C$509.See the BLUETTI Canada Fall Prime Day deals.BLUETTI ...