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Closing out this week’s Green Deals, we’ve spotlighted Lectric’s XPress 750 e-bikes that are coming along with $257 in free gear at $1,299. We then have the continued $600 discount on Segway’s Navimow H Series Robot Lawn Mowers that we saw during the recent Prime Day event starting from the $1,299 low. Rad Power has launched another e-bike sale with three models getting up to $300 in savings in the form of price cuts and free accessories, while EcoFlow’s River 2 Pro Portable Power Station and its bundle option return to their lowest prices starting from $379. And lastly, Best Buy is offering another one-day sale on the Hyper Jet Fuel Step-Over BMX e-bike at a new $535 low. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s exclusive new low price on Anker’s SOLIX C300 DC 90Ah power station or the big discounts on Samsung’s Bespoke all-in-one electric washer & ventless dryer, and more.

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.

Lectric’s XPress 750 e-bike makes a great commuting companion for up to 60 miles at $1,299 with $257 in free gear

Checking back in on Lectric’s ongoing Fall into Savings sale that still has a free extra battery offer on its XPeak Off-Road e-bikes, the brand also has a nice package deal going for one of its newer models, the XPress 750 e-bikes going for $1,299 shipped and coming along with $257 in free gear. Normally this bundle would cost you $1,556, but as is often the case with this brand’s sales, the discounts here are on the included add-on accessories for an enhanced riding experience. While it’s not the biggest bundle we’ve seen (which goes to its free extra battery launch special from April) it is definitely among the more sizable packages that we’ve seen lately, while the e-bike itself is an ideal solution to many commuter needs at an affordable rate. With the bundled gear you’ll also be adding a larger saddle and suspension seat post to the mix, alongside an 850 lux Elite headlight, and a phone mount.

Coming in both step-thru and step-over designs, Lectric’s XPress 750 e-bike has been my primary way to get around NYC for a little while now and it has surpassed most of my expectations in just how far it can carry me. It comes with a 750W rear hub motor (peaking at 1,310W for inclines), a removable 48V 14Ah battery, and five levels of pedal assistance (with an always-appreciated torque sensor and the company’s PWR+ technology) that boosts me up to 20 MPH for up to 60 miles (in states where it’s permitted, speeds can max out at 28 MPH). The commuting distance holds up as I’ll regularly take this model out for two or more hours at a time and return home with a nearly full battery after cruising around with the pedal assistance (using the throttle alone does show more battery usage).

There’s a bunch of other solid features to praise Lectric for on the XPress e-bike, like the puncture-resistant tires, hydraulic mineral oil brakes, front suspension fork, a 7-geared freewheel paired with a Shimano derailleur, removable pedals, a thru-axle wheel attachment system for tool-free installations, kickstand, a hidden cable routing system, an integrated headlight and taillight, and a full-color LCD display with a USB-A port to charge your personal device.

If you’re not concerned with the free gear but are interested in a toned-down version of Lectric’s XPress e-bike, there are two base model options that are cheaper at $999 shipped. They offer the same overall design features, except with a smaller 500W rear-hub motor (that peaks at 1,092W) and a 48V 10.4Ah battery that provides a shorter travel range up to 45+ miles.

Be sure to check out the entire lineup of e-bike bundles while Lectric’s Fall into Savings sale continues.

Segway Navimow H Series robot mowers

Segway’s Navimow H series robot mowers still benefit from $600 discounts starting from return $1,299 low

Through its official Amazon storefront, Segway Navimow is offering continuing Prime Day pricing on its H Series Robot Lawn Mowers starting from $1,299 shipped, after clipping the on-page $600 off coupon, while its two other models are down at $1,599 and $1,999, respectively with the same on-page coupons. Down from their price tags of $1,899, $2,199, and $2,599 since first hitting the market in March, discounts have been frequently dropping costs by $380 to $600 over 2024. Last seen during the recent Prime Day event, the savings are being continued here for the best opportunity to upgrade your lawn care routine at the lowest price we have tracked. You’ll also find the same $600 discount available on the largest of these models direct from Segway.

Segway’s Navimow H series includes three models that are designed to cover either 0.2-acre yards, 0.37-acre yards, or 0.74-acre yards – with the first carrying a 180-minute battery life while the other two have extended 240-minute run times. They all provide the same cutting height range from 1.2 inches to 2.4 inches, and can even climb/descend up to 24-degree slopes while completing their duties – plus, they all sport an IP66 waterproof rating to handle the aftermath of adverse weather.

The big upgrade here is ditching any need for a perimeter wire in favor of RTK positioning, paired alongside its VisionFence Sensor that enhances its navigation and obstacle avoidance functionalities. You’ll be getting the smart controls over its performance that you would expect, allowing you to overwrite and adjust its settings and schedules – though you can also let it do it’s own thing too, with the robot able to return of its own accord to the charging station when its battery gets too low and picking back up after recharging. This is possible thanks to the guidance of its Global Navigation Satellite Systems that make sure to keep it within the set boundaries and also to track it down if it gets stuck on terrain or even swiped off your property when you’re not looking.

You can also check out our recent launch coverage of Segway’s new Navimow X3 series which has been designed and upgraded to tackle yards up to 2.5 acres in size.

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Rad Power offers up to $300 in savings on three e-bikes with free accessories thrown in starting from $1,399

Rad Power has another edition of its usual sales, offering up to $300 in savings on three of its e-bike models, with some in the form of free additional gear – all through October 23. This time around, the lowest price starts with the RadRover 6 Plus Step-Thru e-bike that is down at $1,399 shipped. Normally fetching $1,599 these days after Rad lowered prices across its older models at the start of 2024, this is the second-lowest price we have tracked on this model, which over the year has been overlooked for price cuts in favor of its now discontinued high-step counterpart. You’ll be saving a solid $200 on a very reliable e-bike that I have personally enjoyed riding around the swamps of Virginia, which I discussed in my Travel Kit here. Head below to get the breakdown of what to expect before hopping aboard the saddle.

While I was spending some time visiting my family down in the swamps of Virginia and North Carolina, I got to jump into the saddle of the RadRover 6 Plus e-bikes for the first time, with my parents having bought both the high-step and step-thru models. It provided me a solid riding experience that I regularly took time to partake in (especially when I needed alone time), with the 750W brushless geared hub motor and semi-integrated 672Wh battery giving me 45 miles of travel at speeds up to 20 MPH. The five levels of pedal assistance kicked on with little lag time, and gave me a consistently reliable ride for the full week of use – plus, my parents regularly use it to get around campsites and have nothing but good things to say about it.

As I mentioned in my Travel Kit coverage, this model is a great companion for rides on the streets and for when things go off-road, as the thick Kenda Juggernaut puncture-resistant tires easily tackled the swampy and varying terrain, with the water-resistant connectors providing added protections during these parts of my journeys. Along with these, the bike also comes equipped with a 7-speed Shimano derailleur, fenders to go over both wheels and a solid LCD display to monitor and switch through its settings.

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EcoFlow RIVER 2 Pro LiFePO4 power station

EcoFlow’s RIVER 2 Pro 768Wh LiFePO4 power station covers 80% of appliances at return $379 low

Coming to us through its official Amazon storefront, EcoFlow is offering another chance to grab the RIVER 2 Pro Portable Power Station at its lowest rate of $379 shipped. Normally fetching $599, this unit has benefitted from a bunch of discounts, with most from Amazon taking costs down between $439 and $429 while some of EcoFlow’s direct 24-hour flash sales brought costs down lower to $379 during its summer and fall early Prime Day sales. Today you can score it once again at the lowest price we have tracked, which only appeared for a single day during the recent Prime Day event and saves you $220.

One of the larger models in EcoFlow’s RIVER series of compact backup solutions, the RIVER 2 Pro comes ready to assist your campsite visits and short-term power needs with a 768Wh LiFePO4 capacity that pumps out up to 1,600W of power thanks to its X-boost tech, giving it the juice to “run 80% of home appliances.” It’s a great unit to have when last minute plans are made as it can recharge its own battery in just 70 minutes by plugging into a wall outlet, with USB-C and car port plug-in options too. By taking advantage of the bundle option that also gives you a 160W solar panel at its lowest rate, you’ll also be able to utilize its solar charging capabilities that can refill the battery in up to 9 hours (it takes 3.5 to 4.5 hours using its max 220W input). There’s also the four AC ports, three USB-A ports, and only one of the USB-C ports to connect your devices and appliances to.

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Hyper Jet Fuel Step-Over BMX e-bike

BMX with a boost on Hyper’s Jet Fuel step-over e-bike at new $535 low for today only

Through its Deals of the Day, Best Buy is offering the Hyper Jet Fuel Step-Over BMX e-bike for $534.99 shipped. Usually going for $1,000 most of the time, we’ve seen a handful of discounts that brought costs down lower, many of them direct from Hyper and cutting the price down from a higher $1,198 price tag to land between $900 and $1,000. We’ve seen two previous one-day discounts like today, with both of them dropping the price to the former $600 low, but today those rates are being beaten out by $65 to save you $465 in total and give you a new all-time low price.

BMX riders who want to add some electric assistance to their fun will find a durable combination in this 26-inch e-bike, which can support teens and adults up to 275 pounds. It has a 250W rear-hub motor powered by the integrated flush-mounted 36V 10.4Ah battery and three levels of pedal assistance up to max speeds of 20 MPH for up to 20 miles after four hours of charging. The nice thing is that the bike isn’t weighed down by too much equipment, meaning you can also ride it like any normal bike too. It’s been stocked with a few other features like the 26-inch multi-surface fat tires, front and rear disc brakes, a premium BMX padded saddle, and a simple handlebar-mounted controller for effortless setting adjustments.

Fall e-bike deals!

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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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Opinion: it’s time to start recommending some Tesla alternatives

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For years, Tesla has been the go-to EV recommendation for “normals” looking for a painless, low-effort experience from their first electric cars. In light of questionable recalls and its CEO’s recent involvement in controversial politics, however, people are starting to distance themselves from the trailblazing company.

All that begs the question: what should we recommend to EV noobs now?

Despite early quality issues and ongoing service headaches, the groundbreaking S3XY lineup of EVs have always had a secret weapon in the form of the Tesla Supercharger network.

That network of dependable high-speed chargers, paired with solid app integration that makes it easy for Tesla drivers to find available chargers just about anywhere in the US, gave the brand a leg up – but no more. By opening up the Supercharger network to brands like Ford, Hyundai, Kia, and others, Tesla has given away its biggest competitive advantage.

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Add in charging and route-planning apps like Chargeway, that make navigating the transition from CCS to NACS easier than ever with its intuitive colors and numbers and easy on/off switch for vehicles equipped with NACS adapters, and it feels like the time is right to start suggesting alternatives to the old EV industry stalwarts. As such, that’s exactly what I’m going to do.

Here, then, are my picks for the best Tesla S3XY (and Cybertruck) alternatives you can buy.

Less Model S, more Lucid Air

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Lucid Air sedans; via Lucid.

Developed by OG Tesla Model S engineers with tunes from Annie Get Your Gun playing continuously in their heads, the Lucid Air promises to be the car Tesla should and could have built, if only Elon had listened to the engineers.

With panel fit, material finish, and overall build quality that’s at least as good as anything else in the automotive space, the Lucid Air is a compelling alternative to the Model S at every price level – and I, for one, would take a “too f@#king fast” Lucid Air Sapphire over an “as seen on TV” Model S Plaid any day of the week. And, with Supercharger access reportedly coming later this quarter, Air buyers will have every advantage the Supercharger Network can provide.

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Less Model 3, more Hyundai IONIQ 6

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2025 Hyundai IONIQ 6 Limited; via Hyundai.

Hyundai has been absolutely killing it these days, with EVs driving record sales and new models earning rave reviews from the automotive press. Even in that company the IONIQ 6 stands out, with up to 338 miles of EPA-rated range and lickety-quick 350 kW charging available to make road tripping easy – especially now that the aerodynamically efficient IONIQ 6 has Supercharger access through a NACS adapter (the 2026 “facelift” models get a NACS port as standard).

The company’s sole electric sedan hasn’t seen the same sales success as IONIQ 5, of course – but that has more to do with America’s insatiable lust for crossovers and SUVs than any shortcoming inherent in the IONIQ 6 itself. All the same, Hyundai is helping dealers clear out its remaining 2024 and ’25 models with 0% financing for up to 48 months through June 2nd.

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Less Model X, more Volvo EX90

2025 Volvo EX90; via Volvo Cars.

Once upon a time, Mrs. Jo Borrás and I were shopping three-row SUVs and found ourselves genuinely drawn to the then-new Model X. Back then it was the only three-row EV on the market, but it wasn’t Elon’s antics or access to charging, or even the Model X’s premium pricing that squirreled the deal. It was the stupid doors.

We went with the similarly new Volvo XC90 T8 in denim blue, and followed up the big PHEV with a second, three years later, in Osmium Gray. When it’s time to replace this one, you can just about bet your house that the new 510 hp EX90 with 310 miles of all-electric range will be near the top of the shopping list.

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Less Model Y, more Kia EV6

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2024 Kia EV6 GT; via Kia.

If half the fun of driving a Model Y is terrifying your passengers with its straight-line speed, then the Kia EV6 has to be a serious contender for a replacement.

The sporty EV6 GT made its global debut by drag racing some of the fastest ICE-powered cars of the day, including a Lamborghini, Mercedes-AMG GT, a Porsche, even a turbocharged Ferrari – and it beat the pants off ’em. Combine supercar-baiting speed with an accessible price tag, NACS accessibility, $10,000 in customer cash on remaining 2024 models ($3,000 on 2025s) and just a hint of Lancia Stratos in the styling, the EV6 is tough to beat.

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Less Cybertruck, more therapy

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It’s not bulletproof, it’s not easy to upfit, it shouldn’t be used for towing, and it won’t win in a straight fight against a vinyl picket fence. By just about every standard “truck” metric, the Tesla Cybertruck falls short against the competition from Chevrolet, Ford, and Rivian. On a more subjective front, the Cybertruck has become a symbol for a conservative movement that is (depending on your point of view) either making America great again or plunging a once-great democracy into an era of fascist oligarchy and widespread stupidity.

In short, it’s probably best to skip the CT.

If you disagree with that statement and feel like driving a new Tesla Cybertruck is the key to happiness, I’m not sure an equally ostentatious GMC Hummer EV or more subtle Rivian R1T will help you scratch that particular itch – but maybe therapy might!

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Republicans won’t defeat EVs – but in fighting them, may kill US auto industry

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Republicans launched multiple attacks against EVs, clean air and American jobs this week, at the behest of the oil industry that funds them. These attacks won’t be successful, and EVs will continue to grow regardless, and inevitably take over for outdated gasoline vehicles.

However, these republican attacks on EVs will still have some effect: they will diminish the US auto industry globally, leading to job losses and surrendering one of the jewels in the crown of American industry to China, where there is no similar effort to destroy its own domestic EV industry.

Republican attacks on clean air this week included moves to block funding that has led to a renaissance in US manufacturing and also to illegally block clean air laws. They also moved forward with a procedural step towards increasing US fuel costs by $23B, an effort which the former reality TV contestant posing as the head of the DOT announced in January.

These moves shouldn’t be a big surprise – republicans have opposed clean air and American jobs for many years now, and they’re doing it because they want to maintain the bribes they get from the oil industry.

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But they should inspire worry for Americans, because they will only harm the country’s domestic manufacturing base in the face of a changing auto industry.

Republicans keep trying to kill clean cars

The last time a republican occupied the the White House, we saw similar efforts to try to raise fuel and health costs for Americans, and to block superior EV technology from flourishing. That didn’t work in the end, and EVs continued to grow both during that period and after.

All the while, fossil fuels have maintained their privileged policy position, being allowed to pollute with impunity and costing the US $760 billion per year in externalized costs. Much of that subsidy is accounted for in the cost of pollution from gas cars, which are one of the primary uses of fossil fuels, which means that, in fact, gasoline vehicles receive much more subsidy than EVs do.

And yet, EVs still managed to grow substantially, despite these headwinds. EV sales have continued to grow, both in the US and globally, even as headlines incorrectly say otherwise. The republican party’s attempts to kill them were futile, and will continue to be.

It didn’t work, but it did delay progress

However, anti-EV actions from Mr. Trump and the republican party did manage to delay progress from where it could have been if America actually instituted smart industrial policy earlier.

What if, instead of the bumbling, idiotic nonsense we went through the last time Mr. Trump squatted in the White House, we could have had something more like President Biden’s EV policy, which created hundreds of thousands of jobs and attracted hundreds of billions of dollars of manufacturing investment?

Surely the American auto industry would be ahead of where it is now if those investments had had time to come online. But instead, republicans are currently trying to kill those jobs, which has already led to several manufacturing projects being cancelled this year, depriving Americans of the economic boost they need right now.

Meanwhile, there’s one place that this sort of stumbling isn’t happening: China.

China is taking advantage

China has spent more than a decade focusing on securing material supply, building refining capacity, developing their own battery technology, and encouraging local EV manufacturing startups.

This has paid off recently, as Chinese EVs have been rapidly scaling in production in recent years. It took a lot of the auto industry by surprise how rapidly Chinese companies have scaled, and how rapidly Chinese consumers have adopted them, after having an initially slow start.

But that adoption hasn’t just been local, it’s also global. Last year, China became the largest auto exporter in the world, taking a crown that Japan had held for decades. But the change was even more dramatic than that – as recently as 2020, China was the sixth-largest auto exporter in the world, just behind the US in 5th place.

China’s dramatic turn upward started in 2020, and now it’s in first place. Meanwhile, because of all the faffing about, the US remains exactly where it was in 2020 – still in fifth place. Well, sixth now, since China eclipsed us (and everyone else).

Tariffs won’t fix it

The reaction of the rest of the world’s automaking countries has been to put tariffs on Chinese autos, hoping to forestall the country’s dramatic rise to dominance. (Although, due to Mr. Trump’s idiotic flailing, Europe is already talking about removing these trade barriers with China)

But tariffs have been tried before, and they didn’t work. When Japan had a similarly meteoric rise to global prominence as an auto manufacturer in the 1970s and 80s, largely due to their adoption of new technology, processes, and different car styles which incumbents were ignoring, the US tried to stop it with tariffs.

All this did was make US manufacturers complacent, and Japan still managed to seize and maintain the crown of top auto exporter (occasionally trading places with Germany) from then until now.

Then as now, the true way to compete is to adapt to the changing automotive industry and take EVs seriously, rather than giving the auto industry excuses to be complacent. But instead, republicans aren’t doing that, and in fact are working to ensure the American auto industry doesn’t adapt, by actively killing the incentives that were leading to a boom in domestic manufacturing investment.

US auto industry jeopardized by republicans

Make no mistake about it: destroying EV incentives, and allowing companies to pollute more and innovate less, will not help the US auto industry catch up with a fast moving competitor.

As we at Electrek have said for years, you cannot catch up to a competitor that is both ahead of you and moving faster than you.

This applies to individual companies, which took their sweet time responding to the challenge from electric upstarts like Tesla, and have now lost market share to said upstarts and let a competitor establish itself in a big way (even though Tesla’s CEO is now trying desperately to harm his own company specifically, and the US EV industry as a whole, by being the largest funder of the party working to destroy said industry).

It also applies to nations, which could have spent the last decade doing what the Chinese auto industry has been doing, but instead non-Chinese automakers have been begging their governments for more time, even though it’s not the regulations that threaten them, it’s competition from a new and motivated rival that is moving faster and in a more determined manner towards the future.

The way that we get around this should be clear: take EVs seriously.

But that’s not what republicans are doing, and in doing so, they are signing the death warrant for an important US industry in the long term.

Another thing republicans are trying to kill is the the rooftop solar credit, which means you could have only until the end of this year to install rooftop solar on your home before the cost of doing so goes up by an average of ~$10,000. So if you want to go solar, get started now, because these things take time and the system needs to be active before you file for the credit.

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Heavy equipment space race heats up with new Vermeer lunar excavator

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Vermeer collaborates on moon excavator prototype

International equipment manufacturer Vermeer has unveiled a full-scale prototype of its Interlune excavator, a machine designed to ingest 100 metric tons of rocks and dirt per hour, extracting valuable helium as it makes its way across the surface … of the Moon.

Helium plays a critical role in the manufacturing of semiconductors, chips, optics, and all the other stuff that makes EVs, autonomy, the Internet, and the rest of twenty-first century life possible. The problem is that, despite being the second-most common element in the universe, helium is pretty rare on Earth – and we are rapidly running out. As such, there are intense economic and political pressures to find new and reliable sources of helium somewhere, anywhere else, and that demand has sparked a new modern space race focused on harvesting helium on the Moon and getting it back home.

To that end, companies like American lunar mining startup Interlune and the Iowa-based equipment experts at Vermeer are partnering on the development of suite of interplanetary equipment assets capable of digging up lunar materials like rocks and sand from up to three meters below the surface, extract helium-3 (a light, stable isotope of helium believed to exist in abundance on the Moon), then package it, contain it, and ship it back to Earth.

“When you’re operating equipment on the Moon, reliability and performance standards are at a new level,” says Rob Meyerson, Interlune CEO. “Vermeer has a legacy of innovation and excellence that started more than 75 years ago, which makes them the ideal partner for Interlune.”

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Enter: Japan

Komatsu lunar excavator; photo by the author.

America isn’t the only spacefaring nation eyeing a helium mine on the Moon. Japan announced similar plans back in 2023, with Japanese construction giant Komatsu announcing plans to develop a fully electric excavator capable of operating on the lunar surface.

The company showed a scaled prototype of the machine at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas (above), emphasizing the need to develop new ways to operate equipment assets in the extreme temperatures of extraplanetary environments beyond diesel or even hydrogen combustion.

On the airless surface of the moon, it would be impossible for an internal combustion engine to operate on the moon’s surface because there is no oxygen for combustion. Electrically powered machines seem the obvious solution with solar power generation supplying the electricity. But the answer is not that simple.

Temperature changes on the surface of the moon are extreme. They can soar to 110° C and plummet to -170° C. Developing electric construction machinery to perform in this environment is no easy task, but Komatsu is tackling issues one by one as they appear. Using thermal control and other electrification technologies, we are engineering solutions.

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Despite Komatsu’s apparent head start, however, Vermeer seem to pulled ahead – not just in terms of machine development, but in terms of extraction potential as well.

“The high-rate excavation needed to harvest helium-3 from the Moon in large quantities has never been attempted before, let alone with high efficiency,” said Gary Lai, Interlune co-founder and CTO. “Vermeer’s response to such an ambitious assignment was to move fast. We’ve been very pleased with the results of the test program to date and look forward to the next phase of development.”

Interlune is funded by grants from the US Department of Energy and NASA TechFlights. In 2023, the company received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research award to develop the technology to size and sort lunar regolith (read: dirt). Interlune has raised $18 million in funding so far, and is planning its first mission to the Moon before 2030.

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Interlune helium harvester concept; via Interlune.

We’ve got space travel, weird mineral extraction from another planet that’s essential for our technology, and a rapid, unchecked proliferation of AI. All we need now is big worms, a whole bunch of hallucinogenic narcotics, and the will to smash up a bunch of data centers with baseball bats – then we’ll have a pretty decent Dune LARP going. Yee-ha!

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