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Outdoors · Jackery · 2024

Jackery Explorer 1000 v2

The lightest way to carry a kilowatt-hour, as long as three AC outlets and a 1,500W ceiling are enough.

Power stations: the label overstates every battery here — #2

Overall

8.2

out of 10

Axis scores

No axis sits more than 0.6 from another, from Performance at 7.8 to Design at 8.4. The 8.2 overall is the plain average of all 4 Outdoors axes, with no weighting.

Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 — axis scores out of 10Horizontal bar chart of editorial scores out of 10 across 4 axes. Bars run from a shared zero baseline; longer is better. Jackery Explorer 1000 v2: Performance 7.8, Value 8.2, Durability 8.3, Design 8.4.PerformanceJackery Explorer 1000 v2 — Performance 7.8 out of 107.8ValueJackery Explorer 1000 v2 — Value 8.2 out of 108.2DurabilityJackery Explorer 1000 v2 — Durability 8.3 out of 108.3DesignJackery Explorer 1000 v2 — Design 8.4 out of 108.4Editorial score out of 10 — higher is better
  • Performance — How well it does the core job
  • Value — What the same money buys elsewhere
  • Durability — Failure and fade reports past the one-year mark
  • Design — Build quality and how it sits in a room

Specs

Capacity
1,070Wh, LiFePO4
AC output
1,500W continuous, 3,000W surge
Weight
About 24 lb
Wall recharge
1.7 h standard, 1 h in app emergency mode
Rated cycles
4,000 to 70% capacity
Solar input
400W max
Outlets
3 AC, 2 USB-C (100W, 30W), 1 USB-A, 12V car

As published by the manufacturer. We didn't measure these ourselves.

Is it for you

Buy it if

  • You carry it from the car to a campsite and the weight is felt every trip
  • It will sit near a tent or a bed overnight, where fan noise matters
  • Fridges, laptops, CPAP machines, and lights rather than cooking appliances

Skip it if

  • You need to power four or more AC devices without a power strip
  • Solar is your main way of recharging, since input tops out at 400W
  • The plan includes a kettle, space heater, or anything else over 1,500W

OutdoorGearLab drained one and got about 910Wh out of the 1,070 on the label. That 85 percent is typical for the class, and the reason to quote it is that every capacity figure on this page shrinks the same way once an inverter is involved.

Where the Jackery pulls ahead is weight. Reviewers put it among the best watt-hours per pound they have measured, and at around 24 pounds it is the one here a single person carries from a trunk to a picnic table without planning the route.

The fans help too. Near maximum load they stay close to silent in reviewer testing, which is not true of the faster-charging rivals.

What you give up is headroom. Three AC outlets sit close together, so two bulky plugs can block the third. The standard wall charge is slower than the app’s emergency mode, and OutdoorGearLab clocked it at close to two hours. Solar input caps at 400W, which is fine for a weekend panel and short for anyone trying to live off the roof of a van.

The v2 moved to LiFePO4 cells. That is the change that matters for a unit that might spend years mostly sitting in a garage, charged and waiting for an outage.

Last updated . The scoring method is on how we rank.