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It’s another day of Black Friday EV Green Deals, with MOD Bikes launching its vintage-inspired, limited-edition Easy SideCar Sahara e-bike as part of its ongoing sale for $3,499. Right behind it is another early Black Friday weekend sale from Heybike that has lowered costs on its Ranger S Folding e-bike to $999, among others. Next, we have Hiboy’s early access Black Friday deals that is seeing the 2024 P6 Fat-Tire e-bike hit a new $940 low. Closing out the week is a collection of EGO Power+ snow blowers and snow shovels that are marked down to help you prep for upcoming snowfall – all starting at $159. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s Black Friday savings from Jackery, the exclusive EcoFlow solar generator bundle lows, 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.

MOD delivers vintage BMW vibes with upgraded LE Easy SideCar Sahara e-bike at $400 off for Black Friday

MOD Bikes is launching a new limited-edition version of its popular Easy 3 SideCar e-bike as part of its ongoing Black Friday sale, which offers up some updated features while also changing up the color scheme. Until December 1 or until stock runs out, you can score the MOD Easy SideCar Sahara for $3,499 shipped. This model would normally be priced at the new $3,899 rate that we just saw the brand permanently drop its counterpart to at the beginning of the month, though it’s also benefitting from the same Black Friday savings, getting the additional $400 slashed off its price tag. As I mentioned before, this new model isn’t just a new paint job but also sports some thoughtful tweaks to its features that further expand its capabilities.

The first noticeable thing about MOD’s Easy SideCar Sahara is the obvious colorway changeup, with its sand-beige frame and its minimalist graphics, all inspired by the 1940 BMW R 75 Sahara motorcycle. It arrives equipped with a 750W geared hub motor (peaking at 1,000W) and a 720Wh battery, while five levels of torque-sensing pedal assistance support you to its max 28 MPH speed and for up to 50 miles on a single charge of one battery. The continuing features include the 7-speed Shimano ALTUS derailleur, a wide beam LED headlight as well as the integrated LED taillight with brake lighting, hydraulic disc brakes, multi-terrain tires with fenders over each, a snap-on rear cargo rack (that is child seat friendly with a 65-pound payload), a wide saddle, a thumb throttle, a bell, and an S3 smart color display with a USB port.

Easy SideCar Sahara
Easy SideCar Sahara

In terms of functionality changes, the Easy SideCar Sahara differs from the standard Easy 3 SideCar in a few ways. First, the front fork has been replaced with a dual-crown motorcycle-style suspension for better weight distribution and smoothing out rougher rides. The Sidecar has also been extended a little more from the e-bike, while also being given two headlights, a taillight, a detachable seat/seatbelt, and a small cargo rack on top for further versatility. The real standout change here though, is the addition of a doggie door on the backside of the sidecar, which will likely be a godsend for older dogs that you’re taking along for the ride, eliminating the need for them to struggle over the sides.

Be sure to check out the full coverage of MOD’s Black Friday e-bike deals here, which not only benefitted from the permanent price cuts up to $1,100 but are also getting $200 to $400 cut off the new rates through the rest of the month.

Heybike early Black Friday weekend flash sale

Heybike early Black Friday weekend flash sale drops its class 3 Ranger S folding e-bike to new $999 low

Heybike is continuing its early Black Friday savings by launching a weekend flash sale through November 11 that is temporarily lowering prices further on a few select e-bikes, like the brand’s Ranger S Folding e-bike that starts at $999 shipped for the time being. Normally priced at $1,499 these days after falling from its original $1,699 MSRP from last year’s launch, it has regularly been seen discounted to $1,299 during past sales events and more recently falling to $1,199 last week at the beginning of the seasonal event. Today, you’re looking at a deal that beats out all that came before as it gets a 33% markdown that drops costs by $500 to a new all-time low price – plus, you’ll even get a Black Friday gift pack free of charge too. You can learn more about this e-bike’s standard model in our review, while both variations are discussed below.

Heybike’s Ranger S e-bike offers some solid performance specs and features at an affordable low price. Starting off, you have a choice here between a 750W (peaks at 1,400W) or a 1,000W (peaking at 1,800W) rear hub motor, depending on just how much power you require for speed, overcoming terrain, and the like. Keep in mind that the 1,000W model does charge a higher $1,399 price (down from $1,699). Both options come powered by a 692Wh battery, with five pedal assistance levels to utilize – supported by a cadence sensor for the 750W model and a superior torque sensor for the 1,000W model. You’ll enjoy 55 miles of travel and Class 3 top speeds of 28 MPH from the 750W motor while the 1,000W motor bumps that maximum to 32 MPH.

Aside from that, there’s a whole bunch of tried and true features you would typically expect from a folding fat-tire e-bike, like the 20-inch by 4-inch fat tires with fenders over each, the step-through frame that also folds, obviously, as well as an LED Headlight, an integrated rear cargo rack with an LED taillight that provides brake lighting, a hydraulic front suspension fork, hydraulic disc brakes, a kickstand, and a smart LCD display. Its charger has also been bumped up to a 4A model, which is around twice as strong as the average e-bike charger, so you can expect a full charge in about 4 hours.

More Heybike early Black Friday e-bike flash sale deals:

  • Mars 2.0 Folding Fat-Tire e-bike: $999 (Reg. $1,499)
    • 28 MPH for up to 45 miles
    • 1,000W motor (32 MPH speed) costs $100 more
    • comes with free front basket and large basket + gift pack
  • Hauler Cargo e-bike (new model): $1,399 (Reg. $1,899)
    • 28 MPH for either 55
    • Dual-battery (85-mile range) costs $300 more
    • comes with free large rear basket + gift pack
  • Brawn Off-Road e-bike: $1,499 (Reg. $1,799)
    • 28 MPH for 65 miles
    • comes with free large basket + gift pack
  • Horizon Full-Suspension e-bike: $1,499 (Reg. $1,999)
    • 28 MPH for 55 miles
    • comes with free front basket and large basket + gift pack
  • Tyson Uni-Body e-bike: $1,499 (Reg. $1,699)
    • 28 MPH for 55 miles
    • comes with free large basket + gift pack
  • Hero Carbon-Fiber All-Terrain e-bike (new model): $2,499 (Reg. $2,599)
    • 35 MPH for 60 miles
    • comes with free large basket + gift pack
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Hiboy’s early access Black Friday savings drops the 62-mile 2024 P6 fat-tire e-bike to new $940 low (Save $540)

Hiboy launches its early access Black Friday sales that will be running through November 20 and taking up to 50% off its lineup of e-bikes and e-scooters. A notable standout is the price drop on the brand’s 2024 P6 Fat-Tire e-bike for $939.99 shipped. Normally this newer model would run you $1,480, with most sales we’ve seen this year keeping costs above $1,000, though just before these early Black Friday deals switched into gear, we saw it down at the short-lived former $960 low during the brand’s Halloween sale. That rate is being beaten here today as you’ll get a 36% markdown that cuts $540 off the price tag to land it down at a new all-time low price. You’ll even find it matching in price over at Amazon right now too.

Hiboy’s P6 fat-tire e-bike arrives onto the scene with a 750W brushless geared hub motor alongside a removable 11.6Ah waterproof battery that provide a 28 MPH top speed and enough power to tackle 20% inclines. With two main options for cruising (and the third “bike” option for manual pedaling), the travel distance can reach up to 62 miles when utilizing the five pedal assist modes, or you can get up to 30 miles using only the throttle for pure electric action. While many of the features are pretty standard for entry-level e-bikes, for such a low price, you’re mostly getting your money’s worth in its performance capabilities. Some of the standout features include the hydraulic suspension fork and puncture-resistant tires, as well as the more standard Shimano 7-speed derailleur, mechanical disc brakes, 26-inch by 4-inch fat tires, and a simple control panel for adjusting through the settings.

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EGO Power+ snow blowers

Combat snowfall with these EGO Power+ cordless snow blowers and shovels starting from $159

Amazon is giving folks another chance to prep for winter’s official arrival with discounts on a few great EGO Power+ snow-clearing equipment, with the popular 21-inch 56V Cordless Snow Blower that includes two 4.0Ah batteries at $549 shipped. Usually keeping to its $649 price tag, we’re seeing more frequent discounts coming in as winter approaches slowly but surely. Costs are usually kept above $551, though we did spy a drop to the $519 low back in May. While this deal lasts you’ll be saving $100 off this snow-clearing solution that is sitting at its third-lowest price – just $30 above the all-time low from summer.

Snowfall has already begun popping up in certain northern areas, and there’s no better way to prep than by taking advantage of these savings when they appear. This 56V cordless electric snow blower from EGO Power+ sports a brushless motor that is powered by the two included 4.0Ah batteries (with charger), giving you the power to clear a 21-inch wide path while chucking the unwanted snow up to 35 feet away. The batteries are rated to give you enough charge to clear out an 8-car driveway that is coated with up to 8 inches of snow on a single charge. It features a steel auger that breaks through thicker ice, with a variable speed control for comfortable handling – plus, there are two bright LED headlights for visibility during jobs in low-lighting hours. If you’d prefer getting a little more runtime out of this model, you’ll find an alternative offer for the power station with two 5.0Ah batteries at $599, down from $700.

If you’re looking for smaller-scale equipment to clear out the snow, Amazon has also brought the cost back down on the EGO Power+ Multi-Head Shovel Snow Blower Kit at $349. This model carves out a 12-inch wide path, with a battery that provides enough juiced to clear a 4-car driveway that has up to 6 inches of snow on it, tossing everything in your way up to 25 feet. This package also allows you to start investing in the EGO Power+ Multi-Head system that gives you more versatility thanks to the many interchangeable attachments, saving you time, money, and space over buying individual models for individual jobs. If you already have the Power Head for the system, you’ll find its snow blower attachment also discounted to $159. Be sure to also check out the full range of heavier-duty snow blowers from this brand on the landing page here.

Best Black Friday e-bike deals!

Best 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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Is Elon Musk delusional or lying about Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’?

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk threw shade at Waymo for having “rookie numbers” amid Tesla’s own disappointing autonomous-driving performance, raising the question: Is Elon Musk delusional or simply lying about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving?

Every year since 2018, Musk has alternately claimed that Tesla would solve self-driving “by the end of the year” or “next year.”

It never happened.

Tesla claimed a sort of victory this year with the launch of its “Robotaxi” service in Austin, Texas, but even that has been misleading since the service only operates a few vehicles in a geofenced area, something Musk has criticized Waymo for in the past, and unlike Waymo, Tesla has in-car supervisors with a finger on a killswitch to stop the vehicle in case of a potential accident.

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Even with in-car supervisors preventing an unknown number of accidents, we recently learned that Tesla’s robotaxi crash rate is almost twice that of Waymo’s, which operates its service without any employees inside its vehicles.

Now, Musk called Waymo’s 2,500 fully autonomous vehicles currently in operation “rookie numbers”:

To put the comment in perspective, Tesla is believed to have about ~30 “Robotaxis” in its Austin fleet. In addition, Tesla claims to be operating “robotaxis” in the Bay Area with just over 100 cars, but it is officially considered a ride-hailing service because drivers are in the driver’s seat, and Tesla hasn’t even applied for an autonomous driving permit in California.

Tesla has also been pushing increasingly more misleading claims about its “Full Self-Driving” system being safer than humans.”

In the last few weeks, Tesla has repeatedly shared this misleading data as “proof” that its system is safer than humans:

This dataset is based on Tesla’s quarterly “Autopilot safety” report, which is known to be misleading.

There are three major problems with these reports:

  • Methodology is self‑reported. Tesla counts only crashes that trigger an airbag or restraint; minor bumps are excluded, and raw crash counts or VMT are not disclosed.
  • Road type bias. Autopilot is mainly used on limited‑access highways—already the safest roads—while the federal baseline blends all road classes. Meaning there are more crashes per mile on city streets than highways.
  • Driver mix & fleet age. Tesla drivers skew newer‑vehicle, higher‑income, and tech‑enthusiast; these demographics typically crash less.

With the new chart on the right above, Tesla appears to have separated Autopilot and FSD mileage, which gives us a little more data, but it still has all the same problems listed above, except the road-type bias is less pronounced, since FSD is also used on city streets.

However, many FSD drivers choose not to engage FSD in potentially dangerous or more difficult situations, especially in inclement weather, which contributes to many crashes – crashes that are counted in the human driver data Tesla is comparing itself against.

Lastly, it is unfair to say that the data proves FSD is safer than human drivers, as even with the flawed data, Tesla should claim that FSD with human supervision is safer than human drivers. It’s not FSD versus humans, it’s FSD plus humans versus humans.

It leads us to this.

With Tesla and Musk being undoubtedly wrong and misleading about the performance and the very nature of its current autonomous driving offering, I wanted to know your opinion about the situation through this poll:

Electrek’s Take

Personally, I think it’s a little of both.

I think he sometimes really believes Tesla is on the verge of solving autonomy, but at the same time, he is perfectly willing to cross the line and mislead people into thinking Tesla is further ahead than it actually is.

For example, I believe I can explain this comment about Waymo having “rookie numbers” despite the Alphabet company having about 10x more “robotaxis” than Tesla – even with Tesla’s very loose definition of a robotaxi.

Based on job listings across the US and his recent ridiculous comment that Tesla will magically cover half of the US population with robotaxis by the end of the year, I think Tesla is hiring thousands of drivers. Soon, it will put them in Model Ys with ‘Robotaxi’ stickers on them and have them drive on FSD and give rides in the Robotaxi app in several US cities.

Musk will claim that Tesla’s Robotaxi is now bigger than Waymo, even though it will basically be the equivalent of Uber drivers in Tesla cars with FSD, which is already the case. Just this week, I took an Uber from the Montreal airport, and it was in a Model Y with FSD. Has Tesla launched ‘Robotaxi’ in Montreal?

It’s either that or he counts consumer vehicles with FSD, which is even dumber.

In short, he is delusional, and when he realizes that he was wrong, he is willing to lie to cover things up.


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Solar and wind are covering all new power demand in 2025

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Solar and wind are growing fast enough to meet all new electricity demand worldwide for the first three quarters of 2025, according to new data from energy think tank Ember. The group now expects fossil power to stay flat for the full year, marking the first time since the pandemic that fossil generation won’t increase.

Solar and wind aren’t just expanding; they’re outpacing global electricity demand itself. Solar generation jumped 498 TWh (+31%) compared to the same period last year, already topping all the solar power produced in 2024. Wind added another 137 TWh (+7.6%). Together, they supplied 635 TWh of new clean electricity, beating out the 603 TWh rise in global demand (+2.7%).

That lifted solar and wind to 17.6% of global electricity in the first three quarters of the year, up from 15.2% year-over-year. That brought the total share of renewables in global electricity – solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy, and geothermal – to 43%. Fossil fuels slid to 57.1%, down from 58.7%.

Renewables are beating coal

For the first time in 2025, renewables collectively generated more electricity than coal. And fossil generation as a whole has stalled. Fossil output slipped slightly by 0.1% (-17 TWh) through the end of Q3. Ember expects no fossil-fuel growth for the full year, driven by clean power growth outpacing demand.

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China and India are partly driving that shift. In China, fossil generation fell 52 TWh (-1.1%) as clean energy met all new demand, resulting from a structural change in its power system. India saw fossil generation drop 34 TWh (-3.3%), thanks to record solar and wind growth and milder weather.

Solar is leading the charge

Solar is doing the heavy lifting. It’s now the single biggest driver of change in the global power sector, with growth more than three times larger than any other electricity source in the first three quarters of the year.

“Record solar power growth and stagnating fossil fuels in 2025 show how clean power has become the driving force in the power sector,” said Nicolas Fulghum, senior data analyst at Ember. “Historically a growth segment, fossil power now appears to be entering a period of stagnation and managed decline. China, the largest source of fossil growth, has turned a corner, signaling that reliance on fossil fuels to meet growing power demand is no longer required.”

Electricity demand rose 2.7% in the first three quarters of 2025, far slower than the 4.9% jump seen last year when extreme heatwaves pushed up cooling demand in China, India, and the US. This year’s milder weather helped take some pressure off the grid, making it easier for clean energy to close the gap.

A turning point for the global power system

For the first time outside of major crises such as the pandemic or the global financial crash, clean energy growth has not only kept up with demand but surpassed it. The next big question: can solar, wind, and the rest of the clean power sector keep up this pace consistently? If they can, 2025 may be remembered as the year global fossil generation plateaued.

Read more: FERC: For two years straight, solar leads new US power capacity

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The Genesis GV90 really does have coach doors [Video]

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Genesis is taking luxury to the next level with its new flagship SUV. The GV90 is shaping up to be the brand’s most lavish vehicle yet, offering ultra-premium features like coach doors.

Genesis GV90 caught with coach doors in real life

After unveiling the Neolun Concept at the New York Auto Show last March, Genesis said it was a preview of its first full-size SUV.

The “ultra-luxe, state-of-the-art SUV,” as Genesis describes it, will be the brand’s largest and most luxurious vehicle yet, slotted above the GV80.

It wasn’t the stunning design or the over-the-top interior that caught most people’s attention, but the B-pillarless coach doors.

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Although we were worried that some of the ultra-premium features, like the coach doors, wouldn’t make it to the production model, new spy photos reveal otherwise.

A GV90 prototype was spotted out in public with the coach doors wide open, giving us our closest look at the setup. The new spy photos, courtesy of SH Proshots (via TheKoreanCarBlog), show the hinged door system in action and offer a glimpse of the interior.

Earlier this year, Hyundai Motor filed several patent applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, detailing new door latching devices.

Two patents, titled “Cinching Device For Door Latches in Vehicle” and “Door Latch Device for Vehicles,” offer a better idea of how the Genesis GV90’s coach doors will work.

Genesis has previously said that B-pillarless coach doors are now a reality in production vehicles. It looks like the GV90 will be the first to debut it.

Yes, the Genesis GV90 will be available with coach doors, but it likely won’t be standard on all trims. It could be a premium feature reserved for higher-priced variants. The GV90 has been spotted out in public several times now with a traditional door design. We’ve also caught a glimpse of other premium features it will offer, like adaptive air suspension.

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The Genesis Neolun electric SUV concept (Source: Genesis)

Genesis has yet to reveal prices or final specs. We could see the GV90 debut by the end of the year, with sales expected to start in mid-2026.

One thing is for sure: The Genesis GV90 won’t be cheap. It’s expected to start around $100,000, but higher trims could cost upwards of $120,000.

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Genesis Neolun electric SUV concept interior (Source: Hyundai Motor)

Earlier this week, a production version of the GV90 was caught for the first time driving in South Korea. It was still covered in camouflage, but from what’s shown, it looks nearly identical to the Neolun concept.

Reports suggest the flagship SUV could debut on Hyundai’s new eM platform. Hyundai claims the platform will deliver a 50% improvement in driving range per charge compared to its current EVs. It’s also expected to offer Level 3 autonomous driving and other advanced driver assist capabilities.

The flagship electric SUV will serve as a tech beacon, showcasing Hyundai’s latest tech and software. It’s expected to feature a massive 24″ curved infotainment as part of a digital cockpit design.

Genesis is also launching its first hybrid, the GV80, next year, and an extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) in late 2026 or early 2027. The luxury brand will also introduce a new off-road SUV as it expands into new segments.


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