Dji Now Makes A Very Powerful Car Charger For Its Big Ass Batteries

DJI has softly introduced a powerful caller car charger for its elephantine portable batteries. The $299 / €269 Power 1kW Super Fast Car Charger can title nan company’s expanding lineup of powerfulness stations astatine up to 1000W from your car’s alternator erstwhile nan centrifugal is running.

This caller group of (nearly) do-it-yourself alternator chargers are having a infinitesimal now that nan astir celebrated makers of prima generators and powerfulness stations personification embraced DC-to-DC chargers. I wouldn’t personification survived without 1 erstwhile distant moving from my van past summer.

Once nan Power 1kW is mounted incorrect your conveyance and connected to nan car’s artillery via nan included 5m (16 feet 5 inches) fused cable, it past connects to nan proprietary SDC larboard of nan dongle-happy DJI Power 1000 powerfulness position I precocious reviewed. It’ll too title DJI’s 2048Wh Power 2000 Expansion Batteries erstwhile daisy-chained together pinch SDC cables for up to 11kWh of stackable retention capacity. The Power 1kW tin too beryllium configured to reverse-charge your car’s artillery to forestall artillery drain.

At afloat powerfulness nan DJI Power 1kW Super Fast Car Charger tin title nan Power 1000’s 1024Wh artillery successful conscionable complete an hour’s drive. However, retired of nan instrumentality nan Power 1kW is pegged to 500W of charging output. To scope 1000W you personification to acquisition yet different dongle — nan $25 DJI Power Dongle — and past group nan mounting to 1000W successful nan app. Fortunately, DJI is bundling that dongle arsenic a “free gift” pinch caller purchases of nan DJI Power 1kW Super Fast Car Charger, astatine slightest successful nan US.

DJI’s announcement follows nan beingness of the 800W EcoFlow Alternator Charger I reviewed last summertime and nan new 560W Bluetti AC500 announced successful nan autumn (review is coming). EcoFlow’s charger, for illustration DJI’s, uses a proprietary connector making it champion suited to title its ain elephantine batteries, whereas nan Bluetti AC500 tin title prima generators and powerfulness stations from astir each manufacturer, but astatine half nan title of nan DJI. Of course, each this assumes that your conveyance is fitted pinch a high-capacity alternator that tin spare nan amps.