Goal Zero is the company that largely created the portable power station category almost 15 years ago, including making the first lithium-ion–based unit that kicked off the current solar-generator war.
Category leaders, however, often find themselves trailing hungrier competitors in features, and that fact was evident in Yeti’s 1500X portable power station.
DESIGN AND SPECS
This beefy, well-built unit boasts a hefty 1,500 watt-hour capacity in an aluminum-bodied shell. For those who need just a little more oomph to carry you through a power outage or camping trip, 1,500 watt-hours is perhaps the ideal capacity, if you ask us.
You get up to 50 percent more capacity than with typical 1,000 watt-hour power stations, but still keep the bulk to a luggable weight of 45 pounds. Once you get to the much-higher 2,000 watt-hour or 3,000 watt-hour models, you start looking for a cart with wheels and a second person to move that “portable” power station around.
In ports, the Yeti 1500X features what you’d expect in a
