Bluetti says it can reduce vanlife power installations to ‘30 minutes’

The RVSolar System surviving its champion vanlife. | Image: Bluetti

It lone took 3 years, but Bluetti is following EcoFlow’s lead with a afloat integrated powerfulness strategy of its ain to marque vanlifers, off-grid cabins, and boats vigor independent. The RVSolar System’s main vantage implicit bespoke systems is simply a comparatively speedy and casual installation, requiring conscionable “30 minutes,” according to Bluetti’s announcement astatine IFA 2025. 

While it’s undoubtedly faster than installing a afloat bespoke solution from Victron Energy, for example, the past clip I installed EcoFlow’s comparable system, it took person to 5 hours — and that was aft respective hours of planning, measuring, and double-checking. Thirty minutes is conscionable the clip needed to screw everything together, truthful there’s inactive a hint of information here.

Bluetti’s 48V RVSolar System is susceptible of 5,000W of max AC output oregon 1,360W DC. That’s plentifulness of powerfulness for everything from a roof-mounted aerial conditioner and induction cooktop to a 12V h2o pump and lighting system. It tin beryllium configured with a whopping 122kWh of Bluetti’s self-heated LFP batteries — capable for maine to unrecorded and enactment disconnected the grid for arsenic agelong arsenic 76 days, based upon the 1.6kWh mean that I devour regular successful my ain van. As a bonus, Bluetti’s strategy besides supports compatible third-party batteries, which is thing EcoFlow can’t assertion with its proprietary connectors.

Maxing retired a strategy with batteries volition beryllium overkill for astir since these systems are designed to beryllium easy rechargeable erstwhile retired successful the sticks. Batteries connected to the strategy tin beryllium recharged from a fig of sources, including star panels (up to 3600W), shore-power hookup (up to 5000W), a diesel generator (up to 5000W), and your vehicle’s ain alternator (up to 1200W).

The strategy is built astir an RV5 Power Hub portion that houses each the devices, which typically person to beryllium wired unneurotic separately successful a bespoke installation. These see the DC-to-AC inverter to person DC vigor to AC powerfulness for the microwave oregon java machine, an MPPT star charger to modulate star sheet input, a DC-DC charger to apical up the batteries erstwhile the vehicle’s centrifugal is running, and a DC converter to measurement down the voltage for 12V / 24V devices similar lights, USB sockets, pumps, and modern A/C units. 

The kit besides comes with a astute organisation sheet for 8 AC and 20 DC circuits, with distant power implicit 4 of those AC circuits and six DC. You besides get a wired 10.1-inch power surface that tin beryllium installed astatine a cardinal determination successful the conveyance for distant monitoring and circuit-level power — functionality that’s replicated successful the Bluetti app.

The RVSolar System volition beryllium disposable globally connected September 30th. Pricing accusation wasn’t disposable astatine the clip of publication, but I’d expect it to beryllium connected par with Victron components, particularly if it’s utilizing third-party batteries.