The Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 Portable Power Station is a 1,024Wh battery with a 2,000W inverter, enough to keep a refrigerator, a space heater, or a coffee maker going off a unit you can carry in one hand. It weighs 24.9 pounds. Ten ports sit across the front, including five AC outlets, USB-C, USB-A, and a car socket. A full recharge from a wall outlet takes 49 minutes.
Head over to Amazon to get the Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 Portable Power Station for just $500, down from its usual price of $599. That’s a discount of $99 and 17% off.
A portable power station to keep you juiced up no matter what happens
Portable power stations usually need a few hours to refill from a wall outlet. This one needs 49 minutes at 1,600W AC input, and Guinness certified it in August 2025 as the fastest recharging portable power station in the 1kWh class. UltraFast charging has to be switched on in the Anker app first, and it only engages when the battery is above 68 degrees. Below that, charging slows considerably.
A 1,024Wh battery will keep a 550W window air conditioner going for roughly an hour and a half. A CPAP machine lasts overnight. A phone charges dozens of times over. The 2,000W continuous output handles most household appliances one at a time, with 3,000W of surge headroom for the spike when a compressor or a power tool kicks on.
UPS switchover happens in under 10 milliseconds. Plug a desktop or a CPAP machine into the C1000 Gen 2, leave the unit connected to the wall, and a blackout won’t interrupt either one. TOU mode in the Anker app schedules charging around your utility’s peak rate windows, so the unit fills up when electricity is cheap and carries your load when it isn’t.
The LiFePO4 cells are rated at 4,000 cycles to 80% capacity, which comes out to about ten years of daily use. Solar input accepts up to 600W at 60V max, and a full solar recharge takes 1.8 hours in good sun. The Gen 2 is 14% smaller and 11% lighter than comparable units, though Anker dropped the expansion battery port the original C1000 had. The box has the power station, an AC charging cable, and the warranty card.
At $500, down from $599, this is 1,024Wh and 2,000W in a unit that refills faster than anything else its size. If you want backup for outages, power for camping or an RV, or a way to run tools and a register at outdoor events, the charging speed is what sets it apart. The tradeoff is the expansion port, which the Gen 2 gives up for the smaller and lighter body.