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Today’s Green Deals are being led by ALLPOWERS’ Black Friday sale, which finally launched through Cyber Monday with new low prices on units like the R2500 Solar Generator bundle with a 600W solar panel for $1,499, among others. Continuing coverage of Black Friday appliance deals, we spotted GE’s 2-in-1 Electric Dryer and Ventless Heat Pump Dryer falling in price to $1,750, after spending much of the year above $2,000. There’s also a new low price on Leviton’s Level 2 48A Hardwired EV Charging Station at $559, with its smarter counterpart sitting $77 higher. And bringing up the rear is Jackery’s Explorer 100 Plus Portable Power Station beating out the brand’s direct Black Friday sale to return to the $89 low. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s Lectric XPeak 2.0 e-bike pre-order special, Samsung’s Bespoke all-in-one washer/dryer Black Friday deal, 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.

ALLPOWERS Black Friday sale drops R2500 solar generator with 600W panel to new $1,499 low (Save $700)

ALLPOWERS has begun its official Black Friday event that is taking up to $1,800 off power stations and bundles through December 3. Among the offers we’re seeing several new low prices, like on the R2500 Portable Power Station that comes bundled with a 600W solar panel for $1,499 shipped. Normally this solar generator package would run you $2,199 at full price, with the largest discount we’ve seen this year being a drop to the former $1,559 low back during Amazon’s Prime Day event in October. Now, during this Black Friday event, you can score $700 off its usual going rate at the best price we have seen to date – even beating its Prime Day low by $60. You’ll also find this bundle matching the price over at Amazon.

As we’ve seen with the other Black Friday sales from other brands, there’s some additional savings and free gifts being offered here too. To start, you can get an extra 5% taken off any order of $3,000 to $3,499, with that number increasing to 7% off on orders between $3,500 and $3,999, and up to 10% off once your total hits $4,000 or more (extra savings has not been factored in below). Likewise, when you spend over $1,900 you’ll get a free PB100 24,000mAh Power Bank, while spending over $2,300 gives you a free SP027 100W Portable Solar Panel, and over $3,200 lands you a free SF200 200W Portable Flexible Solar Panel.

Arriving in a sleek and streamlined unit, ALLPOWERS’ R2500 power station delivers a 2,016Wh LiFePO4 battery capacity with 14 output ports that can dish out up to 2,500W of power, peaking at 4,000W. It provides the typical collection of smart controls that you can access through its app alongside four methods of recharging its own battery – AC, solar, auto, and dual AC with solar. Connecting it to a standard wall outlet refills the battery in about 1.3 hours, while utilizing its 1,000W solar input can do the same in two hours time. These times can be cut down to just one hour when connecting both to an AC outlet while using the max solar input too.

There’s a few other great bundle options for this model, as well, with the solo power station starting things at $999, down from $1,599. From there, you can bundle it with a 200W solar panel for $1,179, or go further with a 400W solar panel at $1,359. If you want to expand the unit’s capacity, you can double things to 3,168Wh with an expansion battery for $1,399.

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GE’s 2-in-1 electric washer/ventless dryer saves space or doubles up for faster laundry duty at $1,750 ($1,150 off)

As part of its ongoing Black Friday sale, Best Buy is offering the GE Profile 4.8 cu. ft. UltraFast Electric 2-in-1 Washer & Dryer with Ventless Heat Pump for $1,749.99 shipped. This ENERGY STAR appliance normally sits at $2,900 most days, with occasional discounts popping up every couple of months over the course of 2024. We’ve mainly seen in keeping above $2,000 during most sales, though we did spot it dropping to the $1,749 low earlier in the year. Today, you’re getting a near-match to its lowest rate at $1,150 slashed from its price tag, coming in as the second-lowest price that we have tracked that lands just $1 above the all-time low.

Scoring this 2-in-1 washer/dryer for your home gives you far more freedom when it comes to your laundry setup, as its ventless heat pump tech, aside from “providing 50% more energy efficient airflow drying,” allows for it to be placed anywhere regardless of any pre-existing vents, saving you space or even allowing you to double up to get through Laundry faster. Complete with the usual smart controls you’d expect, accessed through the SmartHQ app, it will also automatically update itself through your home’s Wi-Fi, and even sends notifications and status alerts to your smartphone. One such example of an update is a recent one that directed its airflow system to separate hair and pet dander from fabrics before the wash cycle begins, collecting it into the EZ Access lint filter (which has saved my girlfriend and her family from plenty of suffering from their allergies since using one).

Another of its standout features is the inclusion of the SmartDispense technology that allows it to hold up to 32 loads of detergent and fabric softener before you’ll need to refill it. You can even scan the barcode on whatever detergent bottle you’re using so that the unit’s AI can adjust the dispensed amounts out based on the brand and your laundry’s load size.

Leviton level 2 48A EV charger

Save $140 on Leviton’s level 2 48A hardwired EV charging station while it’s at a new $559 low

Amazon is offering a rare chance at savings during this Black Friday season on Leviton’s Level 2 48A Hardwired EV Charging Station for $559 shipped. Normally sitting full price at $699, this is the first discount we’ve spotted on this standard EV charger in 2024 since seeing it last during 2023’s Black Friday period at $595. After nearly a year of no price changes, we’re finally seeing it come down with a 20% markdown, saving you $140 while also giving you the new lowest price that we have tracked.

This level 2 EV charger from Leviton arrives compatible with most EVs on the market – Audi, BMW, Ford, Honda, Subaru – plus, you can even use it to charge your Tesla vehicles with the supplied adapter, often averaging around 25 miles per hour of charging. It comes housed within a water-resistant enclosure to protect it from adverse elements and inclement weather, with its charging cable designed to prevent freezing and cracking too. This is a hardwired model that comes easy to install indoor or outdoors, but keep in mind that it does require a 60A breaker.

If you would prefer this charging station with additional smart controls, the alternate Leviton Level 2 48A Smart Hardwired EV Charging Station is also seeing a discount to the second-lowest price of $636 shipped, down from $749. You’ll get the same compatibility, performance, and features here, but with the added bonus of smart control functionality though the My Leviton App via Wi-Fi.

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Get 99Wh/31,000mAh of juice through Jackery’s Explorer 100 Plus LiFePO4 power station at $89 low

Jackery is offering a return low price through its official Amazon storefront on the Explorer 100 Plus Portable Power Station that is down at $89 shipped, after clipping the on-page $40 off coupon. Already down from its full $149 price tag, we’ve mainly seen discounts bring the costs down to either $100 or $90 throughout 2024, with the first drop further to the $89 low occurring during September’s Labor Day sales, only repeating for a short-lived Prime Day time period. Today though, you’re looking at another chance to grab it for your personal backup power needs at the lowest price we have tracked – even beating out Jackery’s direct Black Friday rates by $1.

If you’re in need of a larger, but still portable backup power solution for your personal everyday devices, Jackery’s Explorer 100 Plus definitely beats out plenty of power banks with its 99Wh (31,000mAh) LiFePO4 battery capacity and 128W output power speeds. The compact form factor stashes away inside your bag for charging-on-the go during your regular everyday travels and trips out of town alike. The dual USB-C ports and the single USB-A port cover your devices, while the unit’s own battery can be refilled to 70% in about an hour via a wall outlet, while it takes up to two hours for it to reach full. What’s more, there’s solar charging capabilities here with a max 100W solar input, with recharging through this method taking about two hours. You can also plug it into your car’s auxiliary port for a full battery in up to three hours. There is one bundle option to get the station with a 40W solar panel for $170, after clipping the on-page $60 off coupon.

With Jackery’s Black Friday sale still going, many of the best deals on larger power station units can be found there, however, there are a few standouts that are being matched or beaten out at Amazon, which provide more capacity and more output power levels:

If you’re looking for even larger options, be sure to check out the full spread of Jackery’s Black Friday sale, which has plenty of low prices across power stations, solar generator bundles, and even new releases. 

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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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World’s largest oil company Aramco reports higher third-quarter net profit on production boost

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World's largest oil company Aramco reports higher third-quarter net profit on production boost

Logo of Aramco, officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Group, Saudi petroleum and natural gas company, seen on the second day of the 24th World Petroleum Congress at the Big 4 Building at Stampede Park, on September 18, 2023, in Calgary, Canada. 

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Saudi Aramco on Tuesday posted a 0.9% jump in third-quarter profit on the back of higher production even as oil prices remained under pressure.

Here are Aramco’s third-quarter 2025 results compared with LSEG consensus estimates:

  • Adjusted net income: 104.92 billion Saudi riyals ($27.98 billion) vs. 98.47 billion Saudi riyals
  • Revenue: 418.16 billion vs. 411.26 billion Saudi riyals

“We increased production with minimal incremental cost, and reliably supplied the oil, gas and associated products our customers depend on, driving strong financial performance and quarterly earnings growth,” Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said.

The world’s largest oil company reported a free cash flow of $23.6 billion compared with $22 billion a year earlier. The board also declared the 2025 base dividend of $21.1 billion and performance-linked dividend of $0.2 billion to be paid in the fourth quarter.

The results come as Aramco faces a profit squeeze amid weaker oil prices — down over 6% this year until September — except for a short-lived surge in the second quarter triggered by tensions between Israel and Iran.

Year-to-date, spot prices of the U.S. West Texas Intermediate are down over 16%, data from FactSet showed. Similarly, the global benchmark Brent is down over 12%.

Over the weekend, OPEC+ announced a modest increase in oil production for December and decided to halt further hikes during the first quarter of next year. The cartel members agreed to raise their December production target by 137,000 barrels per day, matching the hike for October and November.

Since April, OPEC+ has raised its output targets by approximately 2.9 million barrels per day but began easing the pace of these increases in October over expectations of a market glut.

Adding to the complexity, new Western sanctions on Russia, a key OPEC+ member, are posing difficulties for the group’s production strategy, as Moscow faces limits in boosting output after the U.S. imposed additional restrictions on the country’s major oil producers Rosneft and Lukoil.

Aramco recently completed its acquisition of a 22.5% stake in Petro Rabigh, Reuters reported, from Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical for $701.8 million, bringing the Saudi company’s total ownership to roughly 60%. The oil giant also recently acquired a minority stake in artificial intelligence company HUMAIN, which is majority owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

Nasser added that the company’s stake in HUMAIN is expected to further drive innovation and progress its role in the “crucial and rapidly evolving AI sector.”

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Hydrogen Mafia: Toyota faces $5.7 billion RICO lawsuit

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Hydrogen Mafia: Toyota faces .7 billion RICO lawsuit

Toyota Hit with RICO Class Action Over Alleged Concealment of Hydrogen Vehicle Safety Defects

A $5.7B lawsuit filed in Federal court alleges that Toyota operated what amounts an organized, fraudulent enterprise that intentionally concealed known, catastrophic safety defects associated with their hydrogen fuel cell-powered Toyota Mirai sedans.

Originally passed as part of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is designed to help prosecutors go after people or companies that commit a pattern of crimes as part of an ongoing organization or enterprise — like the Mafia (which doesn’t exist), or large-scale fraud operations at a corporation.

That RICO statute is now at the center of a new case against Toyota. In it, the plaintiff’s attorneys argue that Toyota knowingly engaged in a decade of fraud surrounding the hydrogen fuel cell-powered MIrai sedan that jeopardized public safety and breached the terms of a previous DOJ settlement.

The case, filed by Jason M. Ingber, lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the US District Court for the Central District of California, is a 142-page RICO complaint alleging that Toyota, its financing arm, and its California dealerships coordinated conspired to market and finance HFCEVs that technicians allegedly referred to as, “ticking hydrogen bombs.”

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“This lawsuit isn’t about a simple defect, it’s about organized fraud,” argues Mr. Ingber. “Toyota engineered, financed, and controlled California’s hydrogen network, then used that control to hide safety failures and financial harm to consumers.”

According to the complaint, Toyota and its hydrogen partner, FirstElement Fuel (True Zero), intentionally concealed evidence of:

  • hydrogen leaks near hot engine components, creating explosion risks
  • sudden power loss, acceleration, and braking failures leading to collisions and injuries
  • a collapsing hydrogen infrastructure, leaving drivers stranded for weeks without access to fuel
  • aggressive financial collection tactics by Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, targeting owners of inoperable vehicles.

The suit further argues that Toyota’s concealment of these facts violates a 2014 Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), in which the company admitted to concealing safety defects surrounding the highly publicized incidents of unintended-acceleration and agreed to report all (emphasis mine) future safety issues truthfully.

Ingber is seeking treble damages for the class, injunctive relief, and a federal order halting Toyota’s hydrogen enterprise, citing a continuing pattern of mail and wire fraud.

“Toyota built its reputation on trust,” Ingber said, in a statement. “Our case will show how that trust is violated and why consumers deserve accountability now.”

The case is titled Aminah Kamran et al. v. Toyota Motor Corporation et al., and is docketed as Case No. 2:25-cv-09542.

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Company cites “supply complications” in a letter to customers. Is this the beginning of the end of hydrogen?
Mirai at a hydrogen station; via Shell.

Despite the ebb and flow of media chatter about hydrogen fuel, the simple fact is that America’s hydrogen infrastructure isn’t, and what little infrastructure we did have took a hit last January, when Shell abruptly closed its publicly-accessible charging stations. That left precious few open and operational hydrogen stations available for public use – and the ones that are open don’t seem to be reliable, with Car Complaints reporting that Toyota Mirai owners say they can’t find working hydrogen refueling stations while others complained they had to park their cars for weeks because they couldn’t find hydrogen.

As a result, with supply issues impacting the few stations that are still available (see the DOE’s Alternative Fuels Data Center map, below), it’s tough to argue that Mirai buyers may not have gotten what they were expecting – regardless of the killer, 50% off plus $15,000 in free hydrogen fuel deals that were being offered.

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

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

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Solar and wind together accounted for 88% of new US electrical generating capacity added in the first eight months of 2025, according to data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) which was reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign. In August, solar energy alone provided two-thirds of the new capacity, marking two consecutive years in which solar has led every month among all energy sources. Solar and wind each added more new capacity than natural gas did. Within three years, the share of all renewables in installed capacity may exceed 40%.

Solar was 73% of new generating capacity YTD

In its latest monthly “Energy Infrastructure Update” report (with data through August 31, 2025), FERC says 48 “units” of solar totaling 2,702 megawatts (MW) came online in August, accounting for 66.4% of all new generating capacity added during the month. That represents the second-largest monthly capacity increase by solar in 2025, behind only January when 2,945 MW were added.

The 505 units of utility-scale (>1 MW) solar added during the first eight months of 2025 total 19,093 MW and accounted for 73.4% of the total new capacity placed into service by all sources.

Solar has now been the largest source of new generating capacity added each month for two consecutive years, between September 2023 and August 2025. During that period, total utility-scale solar capacity grew from 91.82 gigawatts (GW) to 156.20 GW. No other energy source added anything close to that amount of new capacity. Wind, for example, expanded by 11.16 GW while natural gas’ net increase was just 4.36 GW.

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Renewables were 88% of new capacity added YTD

Between January and August, new wind has provided 3,775 MW of capacity additions – more than the new capacity provided by natural gas (3,095 MW). Wind thus accounted for 14.5% of all new capacity added during the first eight months of 2025.

For the first eight months of 2025, the combination of solar and wind (plus 4 MW of hydropower and 3 MW of biomass) accounted for 88.0% of new capacity, while natural gas provided just 11.9%. The balance of net capacity additions came from oil (20 MW) and waste heat (17 MW).

Solar + wind are almost 25% of US utility-scale generating capacity

Utility-scale solar’s share of total installed capacity (11.62%) is now almost equal to that of wind (11.82%). If recent growth rates continue, utility-scale solar capacity should equal and probably surpass that of wind in the next “Energy Infrastructure Update” report published by FERC.

Taken together, wind and solar make up 23.44% of the US’s total available installed utility-scale generating capacity.

Moreover, almost 29% of US solar capacity is in the form of small-scale (e.g., rooftop) systems that are not reflected in FERC’s data. Including that additional solar capacity would bring the share provided by solar + wind to more than a quarter of the US total.

With the inclusion of hydropower (7.59%), biomass (1.06%), and geothermal (0.31%), renewables account for a 32.40% share of total US utility-scale generating capacity. If small-scale solar capacity is included, renewables make up more than one-third of total US generating capacity.

Solar is still on track to become the No. 2 source of US generating capacity

FERC reports that net “high probability” net additions of solar between September 2025 and August 2028 total 89,953 MW – an amount almost four times the forecast net “high probability” additions for wind (23,223 MW), the second fastest-growing resource.

FERC also foresees net growth for hydropower (566 MW) and geothermal (92 MW), but a decrease of 126 MW in biomass capacity.

Meanwhile, natural gas capacity is projected to expand by 8,481 MW, while nuclear power is expected to add just 335 MW. In contrast, coal and oil are projected to contract by 23,564 MW and 1,581 MW, respectively.

Taken together, the new “high probability” net capacity additions by all renewable energy sources over the next three years – i.e., the Trump Administration’s remaining time in office – would total 113,708 MW. On the other hand, the installed capacity of fossil fuels and nuclear power combined would shrink by 16,329 MW.

Should FERC’s three-year forecast materialize, by early fall 2028, utility-scale solar would account for 17.1% of installed U.S. generating capacity, more than any other source besides natural gas (40.0%). Further, the capacity of the mix of all utility-scale renewable energy sources would exceed 38%. Including small-scale solar, assuming it retains its 29% share of all solar, could push renewables’ share to over 41%, while natural gas would drop to about 38%.

“Notwithstanding impediments created by the Trump Administration and the Republican-controlled Congress, solar and wind continue to add more generating capacity than fossil fuels and nuclear power,” noted the SUN DAY Campaign’s executive director Ken Bossong. “And FERC foresees renewable energy’s role expanding in the next three years while the shares provided by coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear all contract.” 

Read more: EIA: Solar + storage dominate, fossil fuels stagnate to August 2025

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