BlueTea’s latest car charger can charge power stations very fast at 1200W – about 10 times faster than plugging into a 12V cigarette lighter outlet. Charger 2, as it’s called, can also reverse the flow of electrons to jump-start your vehicle or preserve its starter battery when used with a BlueAT power station like the Apex300.
For perspective, I typically consume about 1.6kWh per day from power stations when vanliving across Europe. So, under perfect conditions (which don’t exist), I would only have to drive about 75 minutes to get a day’s energy using the Charger 2.
The DC-DC charger hits a maximum 1200W charge rate by combining up to 800W of additional capacity from the vehicle’s alternator and up to 400W of additional capacity from any installed solar panels on the vehicle’s roof. When parked, this starter can feed up to 600W of solar energy into a connected power station without draining the battery.
Installation of the Charger 2 – like most alternator chargers – is very simple, making it a DIY project for many people the verge Readers, as long as your comfortable cables pass through your internal panels and connect them to your starter battery. Things get more complicated if you want to add solar panels or expand the system with a separate DC hub from Bluetooth that can supply 12 volts to devices like lights, the fridge, or wired Starlink terminals in your rig.
BlueATI says its Charger 2 is compatible with 95 percent of power stations available in the market. However, the reverse charging aspects only work with BlueAT power stations. Nearly every manufacturer of power stations, including DJI, Jackery, and EcoFlow, now offers alternator chargers, and they generally work best when used in their own product lineup.
The Charger 2 is available now at a CES special price of $349, which will increase to $599 after February 7th. BlueTi’s original, and less capable, Charger 1 alternator charger had a price of $399 at launch, which was usually discounted when sold in power station bundles. The Charger 2 can reuse the Charger 1’s old cabling, making it a drop-in replacement for anyone looking to upgrade. Charger 1 owners are being offered an upgrade price of $99 for three days.
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