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Closing out this week’s Green deals is the Heybike summer sale that is taking up to $500 off its e-bikes while also offering free accessories and bundle options, with the Mars 2.0 Folding e-bike sitting at the lowest reduced price of $999. It is joined by the return of the EGO Power+ 56V 42-inch Z6 Zero-Turn Riding Mower that comes with two extra batteries and is back at its $4,999 low. Then there is the EAST OAK 30-inch Digital Electric Smoker that has also fallen to its lowest price of $255. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals that are still alive and well.

Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.

Heybike summer sale takes $500 off e-bikes with free accessories and bundle options, starting from $999

Heybike has a summer sale that is now in full swing, taking up to $500 off e-bikes, with bundle deals available as well as free accessories that are included along with your purchase, depending on the model. While the brand’s popular Ranger Foldable Cargo e-bike is sold out, the next biggest discount is on the Mars 2.0 Folding e-bike for $999 shipped. Normally fetching $1,499 outside of these sales, this upgraded model has seen significantly fewer and smaller discounts than its predeccessor. It’s been included in Best Buy’s 24-hour flash sales a few times so far in 2024, usually to this price or $100 higher, though the biggest we’ve seen this year is a drop to $899 back during Valentine’s Day sales. Today’s deal is a 33% markdown that saves you $500 and returns it to the second-lowest price we have tracked – just $100 above the all-time low from February.

The Mars 2.0 e-bike comes in four colors (pumpkin orangedusty bluegranite grey, and leather black) and equipped with a 750W (1,200W peak) rear hub motor alongside a removable 48V battery that can carry the bike up to 28 MPH for up to 45 miles on a single charge. There is an option to upgrade the motor to a 1,000W model (with 1,800W peak) for $200 more that bumps the max speed up to 32 MPH alongside improved performance on inclines, an increased load capacity, faster acceleration, and more.

You can customize your riding experience through its five levels of pedal assist modes or switch over to the 7-speed gears while the 4-inch wide fat tires ensure effortless handling when you go off the beaten path – “offering superior traction, stability, and a smoother ride compared to conventional bikes.” The bike’s frame can easily be folded up in seconds for quick storage or transport and also features hydraulic disc brakes (1,000W motor model has more advanced versions), a rear cargo rack, head and taillights with braking functionality, a shock-absorbing seat, as well as a smart LCD display that gives you real-time performance statuses and allows for setting adjustments. As part of Heybike’s summer sale, this e-bike also comes with a free front basket and a free rear cargo basket.

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EGO Power+ 56V 42-inch Z6 zero-turn riding mower within post for Heybike summer sale

Amazon is offering the EGO POWER+ 56V 42-inch Z6 Zero Turn Riding Mower with four 10.0Ah batteries and an extra two 5.0Ah batteries for $4,999 shipped. Usually fetching $4,999, this is the lowest price drop that we have tracked for this bundle, with only three previous discounts to speak of – the first two dropping costs to $5,499, while last month we saw it hit the $4,999 low for the first time. You can find other third-party sellers offering this mower with its regular four batteries alone at the same discounted rate, meaning this bundle from Amazon is giving you two extra 5.0Ah batteries for no added cost. There’s also a similar bundle on the mower with four 12.0Ah batteries and an e-steer wheel at $5,499, down from $6,597.

This riding mower from EGO Power+ is powered by the four 10.0Ah batteries in order to cover up to 2 acres of land on one continuous run (extended a bit more with the two extra batteries). Its 42-inch weather-resistant steel cutting deck houses four independent brushless motors, which total up to rival a 22-horsepower engine, moving it at a max speed of 8 MPH. There are 10 cutting heights to choose from, ranging from 1.5 inches and 4.5 inches, with three different driving modes and a 3-in-1 functionality for mulching, bagging, and/or side discharging. It also sports some premium features like the 32 LED lights laid out on its front, sides, and rear for those early morning or late evening jobs – and even Bluetooth connectivity and a USB charging port for devices.

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EAST OAK 30-inch Digital electric smoker within post for Heybike summer sale

EAST OAK’S 30-inch Digital Electric Smoker hits $255 low

Amazon is offering the EAST OAK 30-inch Digital Electric Smoker for $254.99 shipped. Normally going for $300, this appliance has seen five previous discounts since the new year began, with the first four dropping to the same $270 rate once per month from January through April, and the most recent taking things further to the $255 low in May for the first time since September of 2023, which is repeated here in today’s deal.

Sporting a compact, vertical design with four racks to place your meat and veggies, this electric smoker utilizes 800W of power and wood chips for that smoky flavor you love with reduced emissions lower than that of charcoal. Standing 18.97 inches by 17.56 inches by 32.44 inches, with 725 square-feet of cooking space, its door has a glass section allowing you to directly see your food at its various stages of cooking, with a meat probe for monitoring the food’s internal temperatures. It features a digital control panel that gives you real-time readouts of temperatures and times, along with a remote for controlling its settings when not directly in front of it. Its side-loading wood chip loader can hold enough to continue cooking for 2 to 3 hours without needing to be refilled, maintaining a temperature range between 100 degrees and 275 degrees Fahrenheit for that low and slow cooking that yields the most tender of BBQ. Also comes with a water bowl and a drip pan.

You’ll find a smaller and cheaper option in the EAST OAK 30-inch Black model from the same line as the above model, currently available for $200, down from $230. This model sports the same general design as the above smoker, with one major and instantly obvious difference: there is no window to view inside while its in use, so you will have to either trust whatever recipe you’re going by, or be ok with occasionally opening it up and losing heat/smoke.

Summer e-bike deals!

rad power bikes summer sale within post for heybike summer sale

Other new Green Deals landing this week

The savings this week are also continuing to a collection of other markdowns. To the same tune as the offers above, these all help you take a more energy-conscious approach to your routine. Winter means you can lock in even better off-season price cuts on electric tools for the lawn while saving on EVs and tons of other gear.

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Mitsubishi Fuso cleans up, putting 89 electric garbage trucks to work in Greece

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The Greek cities of Athens and Thessaloniki are popular tourist spots, and those tourists are about to breathe a little bit easier – literally! – thanks to nearly 90 new electric garbage trucks from Mitsubishi Fuso.

The Daimler-owned Mitsubishi Fuso brand has been making big moves since export of its newest electric eCanter medium duty truck kicked off earlier this year. First expanding to Hong Kong, and now taking orders in the EU.

“Thanks to its compact dimensions and high chassis load capacity, the electric Next Generation eCanter is ideal for waste disposal companies that drive on narrow roads,” says Florian Schulz, Head of Sales, Marketing and Customer Services. “In addition, the vehicle is locally emission-free and quiet, so that garbage can be emptied early in the morning in densely populated areas. This makes it particularly suitable for municipal applications.”

One of the most important goals the cities’ governments had was to quiet down the garbage collection process. To that end, Greek body manufacturer KAOUSSIS has put a lot of development work into the upfit body to quiet the hydraulic and compaction actions. The company is calling its refuse body “the first of its kind,” creating a market advantage for the electric eCanter while meeting all EU technical regulations for operating waste disposal vehicles with standing personnel.

The hydraulic system employs proportional, electro-hydraulically operated directional valves that operate at a maximum pressure of 180 bar. KAOUSSIS says it’s specially designed for EVs, and is compatible with garbage bins between 80 and 390 liter (aka: really big) capacities. The lift also features a dynamic weighing system that records the weight of the waste with an accuracy of up to ±0.5 kg (about a pound).

“We have had a very close cooperation with KAOUSSIS for over 30 years,” says Antonios Evangeloulis, Director of Sales & Marketing of the Greek importer & general agent for Daimler truck products and services Star Automotive Hellas. “All the necessary tools, safety measures, technicians, training and certifications are in place and we are able to offer excellent after-sales support for these vehicles. Overall, it was an exciting project that we were able to realize together.”

Forty of the new electric refuse trucks are expected to be deployed by the end of November, with the balance expected to be delivered over the course of 2025.

Electrek’s Take

Mitsubishi Fuso eCanter; via Daimler Trucks.

Electrifying the commercial truck fleet is a key part of decarbonizing city truck fleets – not just here in the US, but around the world. I called the eCanter, “a great product for moving stuff around densely packed city streets,” and garbage is definitely “stuff.”

Here’s hoping we see more “right size” electric solutions like this one in small towns and tight urban environments stateside somewhat sooner than later.

SOURCE | IMAGES: Daimler Trucks, via Charged EVs.

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Italian DC fast charger maker Alpitronic enters the US market [video]

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Electrek‘s Seth Weintraub went to Alpitronic America’s new HQ to speak with CEO Mike Doucleff about its plans to roll out its ultra-fast chargers across the US.

Bolzano, Italy-based Alpitronic was founded in 2009, and it specializes in the development and production of DC fast chargers. The global company’s best-known product line is the Hypercharger, an ultra-fast EV charging station that can deliver charging power from 50 kW to 400 kW, depending on the model.

Alpitronic Americas recently announced an agreement with Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging to become the first DC fast-charging network to deploy Hypercharger 400 units at scale in the US.

Alpitronics Americas’ new headquarters’ 68,000-square-foot office and industrial space in Charlotte, North Carolina, includes a diagnostics laboratory and repair center, a spare parts warehouse, a training center, and space for as many as 300 employees.

The Bolzano, Italy-based company’s Hyperchargers achieve, on average, an efficiency rate greater than 97.5%, and that its repair and service network can service chargers anywhere in the US.

Alpitronic cofounder and CEO Philipp Senoner said, “As a natural part of Alpitronic’s growth, we are anxious to expand our industry-leading Hypercharger network from Europe, where we are market-share leader, to North America. We are pleased with the talent we are finding in North Carolina and look forward to setting a new standard for the EV charging network in the US.”

Alpitronic chargers support all EV brands. Pre-production units have been tested publicly in Rock Hill, SC, and Portland, OR. The first US-built, public chargers are expected to be installed and available in October.

Seth and Mike Doucleff discuss what Aliptronic’s main driver was to come to the US, what attracted them to Charlotte, and what the company thinks the future of DC fast chargers is in the US, among other things. Their conversation begins at 00:41 on the Electrek podcast below:


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Volvo CE rolls out some new hotness at Volvo Days 2024 [part 1]

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This week, Volvo Group held its once-every-three-years “Volvo Days” event in Shippensburg, PA for the first time since the pandemic, showing off tons (literally!) of new equipment, new trucks, and new concepts – including a couple of “world’s first” debuts.

What is Volvo Days? That might require a bit of background …

The heavy equipment world operates on something of a three-year cycle. ConExpo, the industry’s biggest trade show, happens every three years. That sets the tone, with companies showing off all their hottest concepts and forward-thinking new projects. That’s year 1. Year 2 is typically when shows like Volvo Days typically take place, with manufacturers rolling out the production versions of the concepts they showed at ConExpo and inviting a mix of dealers, end-users, and journalists in to try out some of what got showed at ConExpo. Year 3 is more insular, with the manufacturers bringing in salespeople to get them trained on new products and prepare them for how to talk about what the company is planning to show at next year’s ConExpo.

ConExpo was last year, so this year we get Volvo Days – for the first time since 2018, in fact, since the 2021 event was canceled due to COVID. That makes this the first Volvo Days in six years … and expectations were high.

The kickoff

Volvo Days, night 1; kickoff.

Volvo kicked off the week’s events with a drone display highlighting the company’s construction equipment history – appropriate, given that the event was held at Volvo CE’s Pennsylvania engineering and production campus. The drone show was followed by a genuinely impressive, highly choreographed equipment ballet that featured new electric equipment shown for the first time in North America, as well as the new-for-2025 Volvo VNL and Mack MD Electric trucks doing some heavy lifting and hauling.

The show lasted well over thirty minutes, and it was impossible for me to keep track of everything that was happening, but you can get a sense of it in the video (above).

Compact electric equipment

Volvo had its new, in-production L20/120 Electric wheel loader and ECR25 Electric excavator front and center in its reception center, along with information highlighting their competitive advantages in the compact equipment space.

The best thing about Volvo Days, however, isn’t that they have interesting vehicles on display – it’s the fact that nearly every one of those interesting vehicles is available to experience first hand … including the 30-ton EC230 Electric excavator.

Volvo Electric excavators with Steelwrist; photo by the author.

All the electric excavators (even the mini) were incredibly smooth and quiet, with noticeably fewer vibrations than their diesel counterparts … which we also got to play with.

That said, I’m not a “real” equipment operator, which means my seat of the pants impressions are probably worth less than those of the people who use these things every day. That’s why I was glad to have Mike Switzer, my co-host on The Heavy Equipment Podcast, along for the ride.

“It’s really impressive, and the articulation on the Steelwrist is incredible,” Mike told me, after hopping out of the demo EC230. “I’ve seen it before, obviously, but I’ve never had a chance to use it. I think every municipality needs to take a look at that.”

Electric compaction

Volvo electric compactors; image by the author.

Over on the compaction side, Volvo had its DD25 Electric vibrating drum compactor on display – where the all-electric tandem roller was joined by two all-new siblings being shown off for the first time ever: a pre-production DD15 Electric “mini” compactor prototype seemingly designed for sidewalks and driveways, and the TC13 Electric trench compactor.

The TC13 Electric is designed as a walk-behind unit that uses its heavy batteries to provide the compaction mass – but those heavy batteries won’t get depleted in the hour or so of operation that most trench compactors see on a busy day. To keep the little TC13 useful throughout the day, Volvo gave it a pair of 110 and 220V outlets.

TC13 power outlets; photo by the author.

Specs weren’t released, but Volvo’s compaction brand manager claimed those outlets were more than capable of keeping the rest of the job site’s battery-operated tools running all day long, and even packed enough juice (in a pinch) to power a portable office, table saw, or drill press.

“Did you see his face when I asked if it could run an arc welder?” asked Mike, smiling. “He said, ‘It’s not something we’d advise,’ but you could tell he liked that question.”

Yeah, he did!

Electrek’s Take

Jo Borrás looking for prizes; photo by Jefferson Yin.

Somewhere around the twenty minute mark of the “equipment ballet” show, something broke inside my brain. I think it was the sparks flying off the bucket when the L20 Electric scooped up a few thousand pounds of gravel and sand at full speed, scraping its bucket along the ground. Maybe it was the hydrogen-powered articulated loader, or the open bar.

Regardless, one thing that was made very clear at Volvo Days ’24 is that, while other companies are still developing the initial entries into the electric commercial vehicle space, Volvo has not just a full line of products – but an expanding line of products, with the company entering new spaces specifically because of the unique advantages electric offers.

As Volvo’s North American President, Scott Young, explains, the future is electric, and Volvo’s vision for the future has the company firmly in the leadership position … but more on that in part 2.

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