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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.

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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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ChargePoint brings 40+ new fast-charging ports to metro Detroit

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ChargePoint brings 40+ new fast-charging ports to metro Detroit

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Metro Detroit is about to get a big boost of fast EV chargers, with more than 40 new ChargePoint ports set to come online across multiple sites owned by the Dabaja Brothers Development Group.

The first ultra-fast charging site just opened in Canton, Michigan. It’s owned and operated by Dabaja Brothers, who plan to follow it with additional ChargePoint-equipped locations in Dearborn and Livonia.

“We started this project because we saw a gap in our community – there was almost nowhere to charge an EV in Canton, and a similar lack of charging across metro Detroit,” said Yousef Dabaja, owner/operator at Dabaja Brothers.

Each metro Detroit site will feature ChargePoint Express Plus fast charging stations, which can deliver up to 500 kW to a single port, can fast-charge two vehicles at the same time, and are compatible with all EVs. The stations feature a proprietary cooling system to deliver peak charging speeds for sustained periods, ensuring that charging speed remains consistent.

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The stations operate on the new ChargePoint Platform, which enables operators to monitor performance, adjust pricing, troubleshoot issues, and gain real-time insights to keep chargers running smoothly.

Rick Wilmer, CEO at ChargePoint, said, “This initiative will rapidly infill the ‘fast charging deserts’ across the Detroit area, allowing drivers to quickly recharge their vehicles when and where they need to.”

Read more: ChargePoint just gave its EV charging software a major AI upgrade

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Mercedes-Benz opens its first DC fast charging hub at Starbucks

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Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging and Starbucks have officially opened their first DC fast charging hub together, off the I-5 in Red Bluff, California.

The 400 kW Mercedes-Benz chargers are capable of adding up to 300 miles in 10 minutes, depending on the EV, and every stall has both NACS and CCS cables – they’re fully open DC fast chargers.

Mercedes-Benz HPC North America, a joint venture between subsidiaries of Mercedes-Benz Group and renewable energy producer MN8 Energy, first announced in July 2024 that it would install DC fast chargers at Starbucks stores along Interstate 5, the main 1,400-mile north-south interstate highway on the US West Coast from Canada to Mexico. Ultimately, Mercedes plans to install fast chargers at 100 Starbucks stores across the US.

Mercedes-Benz HPC opened its first North American charging site at Mercedes-Benz USA’s headquarters in Sandy Springs, Georgia, in November 2023 as part of an initial $1 billion charging network investment. As of the end of 2024, Mercedes had deployed over 150 operational fast chargers in the US, but it hasn’t disclosed an official number of how many chargers are currently online.

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Andrew Cornelia, CEO of Mercedes-Benz HPC North America, is leaving the company at the end of the month to become global head of electrification & sustainability at Uber.

Read more: Mercedes-Benz is deploying 400 kW US-made EV fast chargers with CCS and NACS cables

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Tesla AI4 vs. NVIDIA Thor: the brutal reality of self-driving computers

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Tesla AI4 vs. NVIDIA Thor: the brutal reality of self-driving computers


The race for autonomous driving has three fronts: software, hardware, and regulatory. For years, we’ve watched Tesla try to brute-force its way to “Full Self-Driving (FSD)” with its own custom hardware, while the rest of the automotive industry is increasingly lining up behind NVIDIA.

Now that we know Tesla’s new AI5 chip is delayed and won’t be in vehicles until 2027, it’s worth comparing the two most dominant “self-driving” chips today: Tesla’s latest Hardware 4 (AI4) and NVIDIA’s Drive Thor.

Here’s a table comparing the two chips with the best possible specs I could find. greentheonly’s teardown was particularly useful. If you find things you think are not accurate, please don’t hesitate to reach out:

Feature / Specification Tesla AI4 (Hardware 4.0) NVIDIA Drive Thor (AGX / Jetson)
Developer / Architect Tesla (in-house) NVIDIA
Manufacturing Process Samsung 7nm (7LPP class) TSMC 4N (custom 5nm class)
Release Status In production (shipping since 2023) In production since 2025
CPU Architecture ARM Cortex-A72 (legacy) ARM Neoverse V3AE (server-grade)
CPU Core Count 20 cores (5× clusters of 4 cores) 14 cores (Jetson T5000 configuration)
AI Performance (INT8) ~100–150 TOPS (dual-SoC system) 1,000 TOPS (per chip)
AI Performance (FP4) Not supported / not disclosed 2,000 TFLOPS (per chip)
Neural Processing Unit 3× custom NPU cores per SoC Blackwell Tensor Cores + Transformer Engine
Memory Type GDDR6 LPDDR5X
Memory Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth ~384 GB/s ~273 GB/s
Memory Capacity ~16 GB typical system Up to 128 GB (Jetson Thor)
Power Consumption Est. 80–100 W (system) 40 W – 130 W (configurable)
Camera Support 5 MP proprietary Tesla cameras Scalable, supports 8MP+ and GMSL3
Special Features Dual-SoC redundancy on one board Native Transformer Engine, NVLink-C2C

The most striking difference right off the bat is the manufacturing process. NVIDIA is throwing everything at Drive Thor, using TSMC’s cutting-edge 4N process (a custom 5nm-class node). This allows them to pack in the new Blackwell architecture, which is essentially the same tech powering the world’s most advanced AI data centers.  

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Tesla, on the other hand, pulled a move that might surprise spec-sheet warriors. Teardowns confirm that AI4 is built on Samsung’s 7nm process. This is mature, reliable, and much cheaper than TSMC’s bleeding-edge nodes.

When you look at the compute power, NVIDIA claims a staggering 2,000 TFLOPS for Thor. But there’s a catch. That number uses FP4 (4-bit floating point) precision, a new format designed specifically for the Transformer models used in generative AI.  

Tesla’s AI4 is estimated to hit around 100-150 TOPS (INT8) across its dual-SoC redundant system. On paper, it looks like a slaughter, but Tesla made a very specific engineering trade-off that tells us exactly what was bottling up their software: memory bandwidth.

Tesla switched from LPDDR4 in HW3 to GDDR6 in HW4, the same power-hungry memory you find in gaming graphics cards (GPUs). This gives AI4 a massive memory bandwidth of approximately 384 GB/s, compared to Thor’s 273 GB/s (on the single-chip Jetson config) using LPDDR5X.  

This suggests Tesla’s vision-only approach, which ingests massive amounts of raw video from high-res cameras, was starving for data.

Based on Elon Musk’s comments that Tesla’s AI5 chip will have 5x the memory bandwidth, it sounds like it might still be Tesla’s bottleneck.

Here is where Tesla’s cost-cutting really shows. AI4 is still running on ARM Cortex-A72 cores, an architecture that is nearly a decade old. They bumped the core count to 20, but it’s still old tech.  

NVIDIA Thor, meanwhile, uses the ARM Neoverse V3AE, a server-grade CPU explicitly designed for the modern software-defined vehicle. This allows Thor to run not just the autonomous driving stack, but the entire infotainment system, dashboard, and potentially even an in-car AI assistant, all on one chip.

Thor has found many takers, especially among Tesla EV competitors such as BYD, Zeekr, Lucid, Xiaomi, and many more.

Electrek’s Take

There’s one thing that is not in there: price. I would assume that Tesla wins on that front, and that’s a big part of the project. Tesla developed a chip that didn’t exist, and that it needed.

It was an impressive feat, but it doesn’t make Tesla an incredible leader in silicon for self-driving.

Tesla is maxing out AI4. It now uses both chips, making it less likely to achieve the redundancy levels you need to deliver level 4-5 autonomy.

Meanwhile, we don’t have a solution for HW3 yet and AI5 is apparently not coming to save the day until 2027.

By then, there will likely be millions of vehicles on the road with NVIDIA Thor processors.


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