Jackery announces ‘world’s slimmest’ fridge battery

June 17, 2026 Thomas Ricker

The slim fridgeguard power bank lies sideways on top of a full-sized fridge.
Designed to fit on top of, behind, or next to a fridge for battery backup during a power outage. | Image: Jackery

Jackery is jumping on the fridge-battery trend with what it says is the "world's slimmest." FridgeGuard also looks nice; a break from power stations that tend to look more at home at a job site than the kitchen or living room.

Measuring just 2.63 inches (67mm) thick, the Jackery FridgeGuard power station is meant to be tucked on top of, beside, or behind your refrigerator and automatically spring to life with a 10ms UPS switchover during a power outage. Its modest 800W of AC output (1600W peak) and 1kWh LFP battery will keep the typical US fridge / freezer combo running for about 10 hours - or double that if you add a 1kWh expansion battery …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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