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As we did on Black Friday, we’re giving you another special Cyber Monday edition of Green Deals today. There’s still tons of amazing deals that you can browse in full in our dedicated Cyber Monday hub here, but we wanted to highlight the best of the continuing deals/sales alongside some new additions. Among our new additions we have an exclusive Cyber Monday discount on Bluetti’s AC70P Portable Power Station to $357, as well as a 12-hour Cyber Monday flash sale on EcoFlow’s DELTA Pro Ultra Extra Battery that comes with a free trolley at $2,199. There’s also the $1,000+ discounts on Greenworks’ 80V 42-inch Crossover Z Zero-Turn Riding Mower and a bundle option starting from $4,500. Among the best returning deals is the Black Friday/Cyber Monday savings from Rad Power Bikes and Lectric eBikes, as well as the 64% in savings on NIU KQi e-scooters that starts at new lows from $179. There are also $2,299 in exclusive savings on Anker’s SOLIX F3800 Power Station and a subsequent bundle option starting from $2,099. As I mentioned before, you can also head to our full Cyber Monday hub to browse the entire roundup of deals we’re seeing through the day and the rest of the week.

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.

Featured deal: Mokwheel Bikes is offering up to $900 in savings across its e-bike lineup this Black Friday, with free gear coming along with select purchases too. You can buy any two ebikes and get a FREE accessory or FREE Gift Package ($499.99~$699). The biggest of these deals comes in on the brand’s latest models, the Obsidian and Obsidian ST Power Station e-bikes at $2,099, down from $2,999, with a choice between three different gifts, all worth $599. Coming with either the standard high-step or step-thru fames, what makes these newer models stand out is their built-in power station capabilities when you choose to receive the 1,000W inverter as your free gift, providing on-the-go juice for your devices using the bike’s 940W battery (on top of solar charging functionality too)

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Save an exclusive $292 in Cyber Monday savings on Bluetti’s AC70P 864Wh LiFePO4 power station at $357

As part of its Cyber Monday sale, we’re getting an exclusive discount from Wellbots on the Bluetti AC70P Portable Power Station for $356.95 shipped, after using the promo code 9TO5POWER45 at checkout for 45% off. Normally priced at $649, it spent the first half of 2024 mostly keeping above $429, while the later half of the year saw the price drop to either $399 or $379, with one drop lower to the $299 low in September. Today, thanks to the continued seasonal savings, you can score it for your backup power needs with $292 slashed off the price tag at the second-lowest price we have tracked – just $58 above the all-time low.

With Bluetti’s AC70P Portable Power Station accompanying you on trips, jobsite visits, or even staying at home for emergency use, you’ll be getting an 864Wh LiFePO4 battery capacity that can pump out juice to your devices and small appliances at up to 1,000W (peaking at 2,000W) through its eight port options. Recharging the battery takes about 1.5 hours with a wall outlet, or you can get it back to full with its 500W maximum solar input in 2.2 hours while connecting it to your car takes anywhere from 4.8 to 9.1 hours. You’ll get the full array of smart controls that you would expect through the companion app too.

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Rad Power’s official 2024 Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale will continue through December 4, offering up to $500 in discounts on e-bikes, as well as free extra battery promotions on its newest models (worth $599), 30% off accessory deals, 25% off vehicle racks, and more. The biggest cash discount during this event is on the RadExpand 5 Folding e-bike that is down at $1,099 shipped – plus, you’ll also be getting a free accessory under $200. Normally priced at $1,599, we’ve seen it as the focus of a few different sales so far in 2024, with most of them cutting the price down to $1,299, though some took things lower to $1,249. With this sale, though, you’re looking at a bigger-than-ever $500 in savings that beats out the former low price by $150 and marks a new all-time low going forward – even beating out last year’s Black Friday sale too.

To view Rad Power’s Cyber Monday sale in its entirety, be sure to follow the link here.

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Expand your DELTA Pro Ultra setup with an extra battery and free trolley at $2,199 low for today only (Save $1,100)

It’s the final day of EcoFlow’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale and with it comes the last of the brand’s 12-hour flash sales, with today’s offering the DELTA Pro Ultra Extra Battery and Trolley for $2,199 shipped. This accessory would normally run you $3,299 most days outside of sales, with some notable discounts during its largest sales that have dropped the cost down to $2,399 at most. Today though, keeping with its promise for “the lowest prices of the year,” EcoFlow has given folks a chance to upgrade their DELTA Pro Ultra setup while saving $1,100, landing it down at a new all-time low price – plus, you’ll also be getting a trolley thrown in too.

For folks who are already utilizing EcoFlow’s DELTA Pro Ultra whole-home backup station, this flash sale lets you take advantage of its expandability, increasing its LiFePO4 capacity by an additional 6,144Wh – which you can further expand up to 90kWh with more investments. What’s more, if your setup is getting pretty large, the included trolley should help you whenever you want to move things around your home, or even if you plan to take the power station on trips and want easier transport options. This flash sale low price will only be around until midnight tonight, so don’t sit too long on making a decision.

To view EcoFlow’s Cyber Monday sale in its entirety, be sure to follow the link here.

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Lectric’s Black Friday sale takes up to $781 off e-bike bundles from $999 and tons of bonus deals

Lectric’s Black Friday sale is taking up to $781 off its e-bike bundle lineup, with tons of additional accessory deals too. One noticeable stand out right off the bat is the ONE Long-Range e-bike that is getting $467 in free gear at $2,199 shipped. Normally you’d be pressed for $2,666 to get this bundle at full price, but as always, Lectric includes the savings on all the free gear (though the e-bike is maintaining its $100 price cut from earlier sales). This is the largest bundle package that we have seen on this e-bike to date, making it the best deal yet to score it for your commute, complete with a rear cargo rack, a pair of fenders, two waterproof pannier bags, and a 4L storage bag that stows away right in the frame.

To view Lectric’s Cyber Monday sale in its entirety, be sure to follow the link here.

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Save $1,000 on Greenworks 80V 42-inch Crossover Z zero-turn riding mower at $4,500 for Cyber Monday

Riding the Cyber Monday savings wave, Best Buy is offering a solid price cut on the Greenworks 80V 42-inch CrossoverZ Electric Zero Turn Riding Lawn Mower for $4,499.99 shipped. Normally fetching $5,500 at Best Buy, with a higher $6,000 rate seen at Amazon, we’ve only seen two recurring price drops over 2024 – the first being to $4,999 (mainly at Amazon) while the other goes lower to $4,500 (at Best Buy). While we did see it hit the $4,266 low during last year’s holiday sales, you’re looking at a return to the best 2024 rate that we have tracked, giving you a solid $1,000 in savings at its second-lowest price – beating out Amazon’s own Cyber Monday pricing by $500.

To view the above mower’s capabilities, be sure to follow the link here. If you want to view the full extent of Amazon’s Cyber Monday savings on Greenworks tools, follow the link here.

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Exclusive deals on Anker’s SOLIX F3800 power station and bundle save you up to $2,299 at lows from $2,099

Wellbots is giving 9to5Toys readers two amazing exclusive discounts on Anker’s SOLIX F3800 Portable Power Station and a subsequent bundle. The first of these deals is on the lone F3800 unit for $2,099 shipped, after using the promo code 9TO5ANKER300 at checkout for an additional $300 off. Normally going for $3,999 at full price, discounts coming direct from Anker have taken costs down as low as $2,999, with Wellbots having previously delivered the former lowest price of $2,499 back in June. Today though, this title-holding low has been swiftly knocked from its place as we’re getting an even bigger 48% markdown that slashes a full $1,900 off the going rate, landing it at a new all-time low that falls $400 under its former low.

To view the other exclusive offer on the SOLIX F3800 bundle, be sure to follow the link here. And if you want to check out Anker’s full Cyber Monday sale in its entirety, follow the link here.

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NIU’s full Cyber Monday sale increases savings on KQi series e-scooters up to 64% off with new lows from $179

NIU’s full Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale has increased discounts from its early-event sale through the rest of the day, now taking up to 64% off its lineup of KQi-series electric scooters, like the KQi3 Max Electric Kick Scooter that is down at $599 shipped. This model is often priced at $999 most of the time, with most of the sales we’ve seen coming direct from NIU dropping the price around $750, though we did see it fall to $599 back in July in the brand’s parallel sale to Amazon’s Prime Day event. Today, you’re looking at a second chance opportunity to score this powerful commuter solution with a $400 markdown that returns costs to the all-time lowest we have tracked. You’ll also find it matching in price for a short-time at Amazon while the current lightning deals continue (12% claimed at the time of writing this).

To view NIU’s Cyber Monday sale in its entirety, be sure to follow the link here.

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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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Altman, Huang and the last-minute negotiations that sealed the $100 billion OpenAI-Nvidia deal

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (L), and Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia.

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ABILENE, Texas – Sam Altman had a deadline. OpenAI’s CEO was headed to Texas to unveil his company’s next big infrastructure push, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wanted in on the action.

Through a series of hurried negotiations, late-night calls and last-minute contract tweaks, the two giants of artificial intelligence struck a $100 billion partnership on Monday, hours before Altman boarded his flight to Abilene, a city of about 130,000 residents roughly 180 miles west of Dallas.

It helped that Huang and Altman had been part of President Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K. a week earlier, allowing the president to be briefed on the agreement days in advance. 

The deal, which Huang described to CNBC as “monumental in size,” marks a watershed moment in the tech industry, as capital and influence are increasingly concentrated in the hands of the two companies closest to the heart of the artificial intelligence boom.

Huang now presides over the world’s most valuable public company, worth nearly $4.5 trillion after gaining $170 billion following Monday’s announcement, while Altman runs the most prominent startup on the planet, valued at half a trillion dollars.

OpenAI’s ascent to the forefront of generative AI has relied on Nvidia’s high-powered graphics processing units (GPUs). Now the companies are more intimately linked than ever, as they plan to carve a path to jointly building the next wave of AI supercomputing facilities.

“You should expect a lot from us in the coming months,” Altman told CNBC’s Jon Fortt in an interview at Nvidia’s Silicon Valley headquarters on Monday. “There are three things that OpenAI has to do well: we have to do great AI research, we have to make these products people want to use, and we have to figure out how to do this unprecedented infrastructure challenge.”

Altman and Huang negotiated their pact largely through a mix of virtual discussions and one-on-one meetings in London, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., with no bankers involved, according to people close to the talks who declined to be named because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

The arrangement calls for Nvidia to invest $10 billion at a time in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. As the buildout unfolds, Nvidia will also supply the cutting-edge processors powering a host of new data centers.

While OpenAI gets more intimate with Nvidia, it has to maneuver through a number of high-stakes relationships with other key partners.

OpenAI only informed Microsoft, its principal shareholder and primary cloud provider, a day before the deal was signed, the people familiar with the matter said. Earlier this year, Microsoft lost its status as OpenAI’s exclusive provider of computing capacity.

The pact also comes less than two weeks after a disclosure from Oracle indicated that OpenAI agreed to spend $300 billion in computing power with the company over about five years, starting in 2027. At the start of the year, OpenAI joined Stargate, a multibillion-dollar project announced by President Trump and backed by Oracle and SoftBank, to build out next-generation AI infrastructure.

Going forward, all of OpenAI’s infrastructure projects will fall under the Stargate umbrella.

Representatives from Microsoft, Oracle and SoftBank didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Nvidia and OpenAI provided scant details about where and when the buildout will take place, other than to say that the first of the 10 gigawatt sites will go online in the back half of next year.

Executives said they’ve reviewed between 700 and 800 potential locations since unveiling Stargate in January. In the months that followed, they fielded a flood of proposals from developers across North America offering land, power, and facilities. That list has been narrowed as OpenAI weighs energy availability, permitting timelines, and financing terms, the company said.

In Monday’s announcement, OpenAI described Nvidia as a “preferred” partner. But executives told CNBC that it’s not an exclusive relationship, and the company is continuing to work with large cloud companies and other chipmakers to avoid being locked in to a single vendor.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang arrive to attend the State Banquet during U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit, at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, Britain, September 17, 2025.

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For Nvidia, the investment in OpenAI is historic in size, but it’s just a big piece of a rapidly expanding portfolio.

Last week, Nvidia put $5 billion into Intel as part of a joint venture to co-develop data center and PC chips with the troubled chipmaker. Nvidia also said it invested close to $700 million in U.K. data center startup Nscale, a move that resembles Nvidia’s backing of U.S. AI infrastructure provider CoreWeave, which held its IPO in March.

Tranches of money

The financing structure for the OpenAI deal is designed to avoid hefty dilution. The initial $10 billion tranche is locked in at a $500 billion valuation and expected to close within a month or so once the transaction has been finalized, people familiar with the matter said. Nine successive $10 billion rounds are planned, each to be priced at the company’s then-current valuation as new capacity comes online, they said.

The relationship between Nvidia and OpenAI long predates the launch of ChatGPT in 2022.

Back when OpenAI was still a small nonprofit research lab and Nvidia was best known for building graphics chips for video games, Huang personally delivered his company’s first DGX supercomputer to OpenAI’s office in 2016. At the time, the startup was located in San Francisco’s Mission District, in a building that’s now home to Elon Musk’s xAI.

Almost a decade and trillions of dollars in value later, Huang and Altman are perhaps the most significant power players in the tech industry.

In October of last year, Nvidia formalized its financial stake in OpenAI, joining a $6.6 billion funding round that valued the company at $157 billion. A month later, in Tokyo, OpenAI executives met with SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son to brainstorm what to call their next phase of expansion. Out of that session came “Stargate,” a codename that has since become shorthand for OpenAI’s most ambitious buildout plans.

Stargate now encompasses every major deal for compute capacity, including this week’s partnership with Nvidia. Securing the rights to the name required some careful maneuvering, but OpenAI has embraced it as the banner for its long-term infrastructure strategy.

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The $100 billion commitment from Nvidia represents only part of what’s required for the planned 10-gigawatt buildout. OpenAI will lease Nvidia’s chips for deployment, but financing the broader effort will require other avenues. Executives have called equity the most expensive way to fund data centers, and they say the startup is preparing to take on debt to cover the remainder of the expansion. 

As OpenAI’s compute necessities increase, a big question is where the company will host its workloads, which have to date been largely housed in Microsoft Azure. Taking the work in-house would push OpenAI closer to operating as a first-party cloud provider, a market led by Amazon Web Services, followed by Azure, Google and Oracle.

Executives have openly floated the idea, suggesting it may not be far off. Some even indicated to CNBC that a commercial cloud offering could emerge within a year or two, once OpenAI has secured enough compute to cover its own needs. For now, demand for training frontier models leaves little capacity to spare, but OpenAI isn’t done looking for new opportunities.

As Altman and Huang hammered out details of the arrangement that was announced this week, OpenAI’s infrastructure team was in Tokyo meeting with SoftBank’s Son to discuss broader financing and manufacturing support.

The parallel talks underscored the scale of Altman’s ambition, and the web of global players now involved in bringing it to life.

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Orsted shares jump 7% after U.S. court overturns Trump project block

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Burbo Bank, Liverpool Bay, England, viewed from the sea turbines on Burbo wind farm off the U.K. coast.

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Shares of Danish renewables giant Orsted jumped on Tuesday, after a U.S. judge ruled the embattled firm can resume construction of an offshore wind farm that was halted by the Trump administration.

The decision means Orsted can resume work on the nearly completed Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Shares of the Copenhagen-listed company were among the top performers on the pan-European Stoxx 600 index during morning deals. The stock price, which notched a fresh record low last month, was last seen up around 6.6%.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday granted a preliminary injunction sought by Orsted to overturn the Trump administration’s stop-work order, allowing construction on Revolution Wind to resume while the lawsuit progresses.

Orsted on Monday said it would start work on the project “as soon as possible.”

The company’s shares have tumbled 22.4% this year amid the Trump administration’s more aggressive stance towards renewables.

On Sept. 5, the Danish firm cut its full-year operating profit outlook following lower-than-normal offshore wind speeds during July and August. Orsted also received approval from shareholders for an emergency 60 billion Danish krone ($9.48 billion) rights issue to raise capital. Norwegian energy group Equinor said it would pledge almost $1 billion of fresh capital as part of the fundraising.

Trump block

The court victory represents a significant reprieve for the Danish company, which has been hit hard by U.S. President Donald Trump’s hardline stance on offshore wind projects.

Since his return to the White House earlier this year, Trump has clamped down on the wind power industry. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order suspending new or renewed onshore and offshore wind leases.

The U.S. president, who is championing America’s oil and gas industries, told reporters in January that his administration was “not going to do the wind thing.”

The Department of Transportation last month said it was withdrawing $679 million of funding for a dozen infrastructure projects that support offshore wind development and would instead redirect the money to upgrade existing ports and other infrastructure, where possible.

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Blink + Hubject unlock easier EV charging across North America

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Blink Charging (Nasdaq: BLNK) has struck a deal with Hubject to make charging easier for EV drivers across North America.

The agreement will bring Blink into Hubject’s intercharge eRoaming platform as a charge point operator. That means electric mobility service providers (eMSPs) and their customers in the US, Canada, and Mexico will soon have access to Blink’s charging stations through their existing apps. In turn, Blink drivers will gain better access to stations connected through Hubject’s network.

Hubject, which already connects more than 1 million charging points and 2,750 partners worldwide, expects the integration to strengthen its North American presence by adding Blink’s wide-ranging network of chargers, from Level 2 workplace stations to DC fast charging. Blink, meanwhile, anticipates more customers will plug in, thanks to Hubject’s reach.

“Our collaboration with Blink marks an important step in expanding our North American intercharge network,” said Trishan Peruma, CEO of Hubject North America. “By integrating Blink’s network into our eRoaming platform, we aim to help reduce barriers that have historically complicated EV charging and to support the continued growth of EV adoption across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.”

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Blink Charging’s president and CEO Mike Battaglia added, “Connecting the Blink Network to Hubject’s platform will allow more drivers to benefit from interoperable charging while traveling.”

The integration will use the industry-standard OCPI protocol to keep billing and communication between networks secure and reliable. Deployment is planned in phases throughout 2025, with full integration targeted for the end of the year.

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