So much for easing into Prime Day — Amazon has apparently decided to open the annual blowout event with some borderline insane deals. Take the Bluetti Solar Generator Elite 200 V2, for instance — a top-rated portable power station that normally sells for $1,700 and is worth every penny even at that price. Today it’s just $700 — Amazon’s 59% Prime Day deal is chopping a cool grand off of the price. Prime Day is usually when you make splurge purchases on fun things you would never dream of paying full price for, but with this deal on the Bluetti Solar Generator Elite 200 V2, it’s a chance to buy an incredibly useful backup power source that can save you during blackouts, weather disasters, or other emergencies. It has a 17-year lifespan, so it’s really an investment as much as it is a purchase, and at any rate, it’s never been priced anywhere near as low as this. See at Amazon The Best $700 You Can Spend The Bluetti Solar Generator Elite 200 V2 lasts 12 times longer than the average portable power station, with a LiFePO 4 battery that is built to last over 6,000 charging cycles, and even beyond that incredible benchmark it retains around 80% of its original battery capacity. With this kind of durability, the Bluetti Solar Generator Elite 200 V2 may literally be the only backup power station you ever need to buy. As an emergency backup device, the Bluetti Elite 200 V2 is hard to beat. It can fully recharge with a 1000W solar panel (sold separately) in just 2.4 hours, which is invaluable during an extended power outage. It can recharge from your car battery with the included cigarette charger connection, or 6x faster with the Bluetti Charger 1 560W alternator charger (also a great Prime Day deal at 50% off). With that power it’s able to charge a laptop 20-plus times, run a 3000W griddle for 30 minutes, and keep your smaller essential devices like your smartphones running the entire time. Road Warrior The emergency backup is valuable, of course, but the Bluetti Elite 200 V2 is also a great luxury item for road trips, camping, tailgating, outdoor parties, and more. It’s a compact 13.8 x 12.7 x 9.8 inches in size and 53.3 pounds in weight, and it has four 2600W AC outlets to go along with two 15W USB-A and two 100W USB-C ports and a 120W car port. Feel free to load it up with all of your glamping needs or your TV or boombox for tailgating — it has built-in safety measures to prevent overheating, and it runs at a super-quiet 16 dB. Any thousand-dollar discount you see is worth a look, especially on a device like the Bluetti Solar Generator Elite 200 V2 that can get you through emergencies and also power up your camping and outdoor fun for 17 years. This truly insane Amazon Prime Day deal takes the Bluetti Elite 200 V2 from $1,700 down to just $700, and it’s a deal not to be missed. See at Amazon