--- title: YETI V Series: The 100 Best Inventions of 2020 description: Find out why YETI V Series is one of the best inventions of 2020. canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911396/yeti-v-series/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-11-19T13:51:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:45:50.445Z og:title: YETI V Series: The 100 Best Inventions of 2020 og:description: Find out why YETI V Series made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911396/yeti-v-series/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69d45fab6cbc8e38/698a144f97cdff5cb16bb5ee/best-inventions-of-2020-YETI-V-Series-Hard-Cooler-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: YETI V Series: The 100 Best Inventions of 2020 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: YETI V Series: The 100 Best Inventions of 2020 twitter:description: Find out why YETI V Series made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69d45fab6cbc8e38/698a144f97cdff5cb16bb5ee/best-inventions-of-2020-YETI-V-Series-Hard-Cooler-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 19, 2020 # The Ultimate Cooler YETI V Series by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  Courtesy Lamenting that the gorgeous stainless-steel ice chests of midcentury have been cost-engineered nearly out of existence, the team at Texas-based [YETI](https://www.yeti.com/en%5FUS "undefined") decided to build their own, sparing no expense: the stainless-steel-clad YETI V Series, an $800 hard-sided cooler that weighs 35 lb. empty and can keep 46 cans of beer chilly for many, many days after your last tailgate guests have left. Its secret is vacuum-­insulated panels, which keep the internal temperature lower for longer, yet allow for more space inside. “Over the course of several engineering builds, we probably destroyed over a hundred samples,” says YETI manager Evan Goldberg. The result might just last for decades._—Jesse Will_ **Buy now:** [YETI V Series](https://amzn.to/2Kg5V4U "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911396/yeti-v-series/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911396/yeti-v-series/"},"headline":"The Ultimate Cooler","datePublished":"2020-11-19T13:51:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:45:50.445Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911396/yeti-v-series/","keywords":["list","franchise","best inventions","Best Inventions 2020"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69d45fab6cbc8e38/698a144f97cdff5cb16bb5ee/best-inventions-of-2020-YETI-V-Series-Hard-Cooler-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69d45fab6cbc8e38/698a144f97cdff5cb16bb5ee/best-inventions-of-2020-YETI-V-Series-Hard-Cooler-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2020/5911396/yeti-v-series/","name":"The Ultimate Cooler"}}]}] ```