BLUETTI’s smallest power station yet keeps the Elite 30 name and the same 288Wh battery, then cuts nearly everything else. The Elite 30 mini weighs 7.3 pounds, stands 8.17 inches tall, and gives up the bigger model’s output headroom to get there. What it keeps is the part people actually use daily: fast charging, a built-in cable, and a 10-millisecond UPS.
It’s on sale now at $239.99, ten dollars under the $249.99 list.
BLUETTI Elite 30 mini
288Wh LiFePO4 · 300W output, 600W Power Lifting · 7.3 lbs
Price: $249.99 $239.98 at Amazon · $239.99 at BLUETTI
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon · Buy at BLUETTI
Same 288Wh, two pounds lighter
The battery is the same 288Wh size as the Elite 30 V2 we reviewed, in a LiFePO4 pack BLUETTI rates for 6,000 or more cycles down to 70% of its original capacity. The V2 pack is rated at 3,000-plus cycles to 80%, so the mini doubles the cycle count while shedding weight. Silicon carbide hardware does the shrinking work, and the case measures 6.34 by 5.12 by 8.17 inches.
The tower shape is the point. It stands upright on a footprint of about six by five inches, the display reads out input, output, and remaining time at a glance, and the textured case shrugs off the car floor. BLUETTI sells it as desk-to-go power, and for once the pitch matches the object.
Total output drops to 300W, with Power Lifting stretching it to 600W for resistive loads. That’s the trade, stated plainly: the V2’s 600W continuous output stays with the V2.
The cable lives inside
A 140W USB-C cable retracts into the case, 60 centimeters of it, rated for at least 10,000 pulls. It runs both ways, feeding a laptop at up to 140W or refilling the station itself, and a second 140W USB-C port beside it can do the same trick. Feed both at once and the pair takes in up to 280W.
One less cable to pack, lose, or leave at home.
Around the panel sit a 15W USB-C port, a 15W USB-A port, and a capped 12V car outlet, while two AC outlets live on the side. Seven ports in all, none of them asking you to carry a cable you will lose.
Eighty percent in 46 minutes
Charging speed is where the mini stops feeling like a compromise. On AC it reaches 80% in 46 minutes and a full charge in 103, and pairing AC with solar lifts the combined input to 380W. Solar input tops out at 100W through the XT60 port, so the matching bundle panel runs that input at its ceiling. A 100W panel fills the station in about 2.7 hours.
The older V2 refills faster on paper, empty to full in about 70 minutes against the mini’s 103, because the mini saves its speed for the first 80%.
The inputs are as flexible as the outputs. AC charging pulls up to 400W with bypass, solar comes in through the XT60 port at 12 to 28 volts, and the USB-C pair doubles as a charging inlet when a wall brick is the only charger in reach. The car socket works too, and BLUETTI’s Charger 1 alternator setup plugs in as the fifth route.
Pass-through charging runs throughout, so it tops itself up while it works.
What 288Wh actually runs
BLUETTI’s own math gives the shape of a day: a 60Wh drone battery charges three times over, a 16Wh camera battery fourteen times, a 20Wh tablet seven times, and a Starlink Mini at 20W runs for 7.7 hours. Laptops, phones, lights, and a router are the working set. Anything with a heating element eats the budget in minutes.
Built for the desk, ready for the driveway
In effect, it’s a UPS that travels.
The UPS switches in 10 milliseconds or less, quick enough that a desktop or a Wi-Fi router rides through a dropout without blinking. Standby draw is 5W, fan noise rates 35dB, and the BLUETTI app runs the station over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, down to setting each USB-C port to input, output, or automatic.
For a home office the math is simple: the router, a laptop, and a monitor pull well under 300W, so a blackout becomes a shrug instead of a lost afternoon, and the station goes back to topping itself off when the grid returns.
There’s a built-in LED light with warm and cold settings plus an SOS mode, which turns the mini into the flashlight that never needs its own batteries.
| Capacity | 288Wh, LiFePO4 |
| Output | 300W total, 600W Power Lifting |
| Ports | 2 AC, 2 USB-C 140W, USB-C 15W, USB-A 15W, 12V car |
| Charging | 80% in 46 min on AC, full in 103 min |
| Weight | 7.3 lbs (3.3 kg) |
| Dimensions | 6.34 x 5.12 x 8.17 in |
| Cycle life | 6,000+ cycles to 70% capacity |
| Warranty | 3 years |
The box carries the station, an AC charging cable, a car charging cable, and the manual. Panel bundles pair it with BLUETTI’s 60W panel at $339.99 or the 100W panel at $409.99, and a three-year warranty backs the unit.
Who should buy it
At $239.99 the mini undercuts nothing in BLUETTI’s own line so much as it re-aims it. Desk workers, van lifers, and camera crews who charge all day and carry their power with them are the buyers here, and the built-in cable alone will sell a few of them.
BLUETTI Elite 30 mini
288Wh LiFePO4 · 300W output, 600W Power Lifting · 7.3 lbs
Price: $249.99 $239.98 at Amazon · $239.99 at BLUETTI
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon · Buy at BLUETTI
Anyone who needs real appliance headroom should skip it and buy the Elite 30 V2 instead, which doubles the continuous output for the same battery. The mini’s bet is that most small-station hours are spent charging laptops and cameras, not running kettles. On the numbers BLUETTI published, that bet looks right.
