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Today’s Green Deals is led by the long-awaited Anker SOLIX Christmas sale that is taking up to 50% off the brand’s lineup of power stations, bundles, and accessories – with the F2000 Portable Power Station for home appliance back up and traveling support down at $1,199, with other deals starting from $99. Next, we have Murf’s 20% off sitewide holiday sale dropping the Higgs Fat-Tire e-bike to a new $1,916 low, among others. There are a bunch of notable Greenworks tool deals coming from Amazon, with the tree-felling 80V 16-inch Cordless Electric Chainsaw returning to its $224 low. Lastly, Govee’s new Smart Electric Composter is ready to support your green thumb with low-cost fertilizer at $265. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like last week’s four exclusive Vanpowers e-bike lows, the latest EV and power station holiday sales, 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.

Anker SOLIX Christmas sale is bringing up to 50% discounts to town on power stations, bundles, more from $99

Anker SOLIX has finally launched its Christmas sales event that will run through December 26, taking up to 50% off its lineup of popular power stations, bundles for solar generators and home backup, and accessories – there’s even some free gear on select purchases and chances to win prizes. For folks not wanting to shell out for the SOLIX F3800 power station but still want some solid home backup power, you’ll want to consider the SOLIX F2000 Portable Power Station and its bundles that start from $1,199 shipped. Coming down off its usual $1,999 full price, over 2024 we’ve mainly seen it have price cuts to $1,299 and $1,399, falling twice before to $1,099 and only once to the $999 low on the day of Cyber Monday. You can score it today at the third-lowest price we have tracked overall, which still gives you a solid $800 in savings while electrifying your life with a reliable unit. You’ll also find it matches the price over at Amazon, after clipping the on-page $800 off coupon.

Whether you’re prepping to handle sudden blackouts over winter or just stocking up for adventures away from home, Anker’s SOLIX F2000 has your back with its 2,048Wh LiFePO4 capacity and 2,400W output power (surging up to 3,600W to tackle higher-power appliances). There are 12 versatile output ports to utilize here, including an exclusive RV port for those traveling by way of a motor home. It can reach an 80% battery recharge in 1.4 hours after being plugged into a standard wall outlet, or you can connect it to its 1,000W maximum solar input to get the same amount of juice in up to 2.5 hours. You’ll also get extra efficiency built right in as the smart AC ports work with its internal systems to switch into a power-saving mode for energy conservation that extends its lifespan and prevents waste.

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Murf’s Class 3 Higgs Fat-Tire e-bike with 50-mile range hits new $1,916 low in holiday 20% off sitewide sale

For the holidays this year, Murf E-bikes is offering a sitewide 20% discount across its e-bike lineup. One of the more popular e-bikes from under the brand’s flag is the Higgs Step-Thru and Step-Over Fat-Tire e-bikes that are down at $1,916 shipped after the 20% discount is automatically applied at checkout. Normally $2,395, with rare discounts coming in across the year, we’ve mainly seen this model brought down between $2,095 and $2,195, though we did see a few price cuts further to $1,995 as well. During this sale, you’re looking at a solid $479 slashed off the tag, beating out all this year’s discounted rates for a new low price.

Murf’s Higgs e-bike offers a more versatile rider range from 4-foot-11 inches to 6-foot-four inches, allowing smaller biking enthusiasts to hop aboard comfortably. Its five levels of pedal assistance support you up to 25 MPH top speeds for up to 50 miles on a single charge (30 miles when only cruising using the throttle) – all powered by the 500W motor (750W peak) and 52V battery. There are some solid features here too to further enhance your riding experience, like the 4-inch fat tires for better stability, 600-lumen headlight powered by “3 high-power LEDs” for rides at darker times, Tektro hydraulic disc brakes, an integrated cargo rack with 100-pound payload, and an upgraded high-resolution display.

***Note: The prices of the following e-bikes have had the 20% discount factored in below.

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Greenworks 80V 16-inch cordless electric chainsaw

Greenworks’ 80V 16-inch cordless electric chainsaw tackles firewood duties at $224 Amazon low

We’re seeing a quality selection of Greenworks electric tools getting prices slashed by up to 32% at the moment at Amazon, with the brand’s 80V 16-inch Cordless Electric Chainsaw with 2.0Ah battery down at $223.99 shipped. Priced at $280, with rates keeping more down between $252 and $263 recently (especially during Black Friday/Cyber Monday), you’ll be able to expand your arsenal here with a solid 20% markdown, saving you $56 and landing it at the lowest price we have tracked on Amazon.

With winter having officially arrived, there will be plenty of firewood gathering going on through the next handful of months, and what better way to be prepared than having a reliable means to fell and cut up trees to keep your loved ones warm? With the included 2.0Ah battery, you’ll get 100 cuts (rated for 4×4 lumber) on a single charge, with a 16-inch bar and chain that effortlessly cuts through trees and limbs up to 30 inches in diameter. Its brushless motor stacks up to a 45CC gas model, though you won’t have to bother with annoying pull-strings thanks to the push-button start. Maintenance has been simplified with a pro-mounted chain tensioning feature while the auto oiler ensures consistent lubrication for continuous use.

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Govee smart electric composter

Cut down on food waste while making low-cost fertilizer with Govee’s smart electric composter at $265

The official Govee Amazon storefront is offering its new Smart Electric Composter for $264.99 shipped, after clipping the on-page $50 off coupon and redeeming the on-page 10% promo code. Normally this new device would run you $500, with only two previous discounts on the books so far, the first dropping things to the $250 low upon its launch back at the end of October and the other taking things to $260 during Black Friday. Today, you can score it to start recycling food scraps at the third-lowest price we have tracked, just $15 above the all-time low.

Composting at home is a great way to cut down on food waste while also improving the soil you use for your gardens and potted plants. This new release from Govee is making things far easier with the added benefit of smart home functionality, helping you keep records of your disposal routines on top of creating a low-cost fertilizer for vital plant growth. It can all be accessed and monitored through your smartphone or by connecting it to Alexa, Google Assistant, and/or Siri for hands-free voice control. Odors associated with traditional composts won’t be of any concern here either, with the device’s two changeable filters preventing smells during its cycles. It also offers three operating modes and a fully array of safety notifications for when anything goes wrong.

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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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Tesla stock helped employees. Now it can’t, because Elon took it all.

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Tesla stock helped employees. Now it can’t, because Elon took it all.

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Tesla shareholders will decide whether to give CEO Elon Musk a stock award that could be worth up to $1 trillion. But another proposal is up for a vote to refill Tesla’s employee stock option pool, and it’s only necessary because that pool was drained to give Musk a payday larger than any other CEO in the history of the world.

(This article is largely excerpted from my previous post, Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay day gets more ridiculous the more you look into it. For more detail on the various absurdities of the award, click through to read more).

One of the questions being asked on Thursday is whether or not to refill Tesla’s “general share reserve” of shares set aside to be granted to employees as compensation. This is known as “Proposal 3” – the $1 trillion award is Proposal 4.

Proposal 3 not only fills the general share reserve with 60 million shares as compensation for Tesla’s current and future employees (of which the company currently numbers ~120,000 strong), but also fills a “special share reserve” with nearly 208 million shares for one single part-time employee, Elon Musk, who mostly focuses on companies other than Tesla (and whose interests can be directly opposed to Tesla’s).

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The board would be able to give these shares, currently worth around $97 billion, to Musk at their discretion. This could happen without further shareholder approval and is not attached to any milestones, unlike the $1 trillion.

Tesla has used shares as an important part of its compensation packages for employees throughout its history, so if it is unable to pay employees in shares, it will have a harder time attracting talent. But it can’t do so anymore, because the reserve has been drained.

This is one of many issues brought up by several pension funds who named their concerns with the shareholder proposals. Normally, it would seem reasonable to split up the “general” and “special” share reserve votes, but Tesla has seen it fit to combine the two – such that if you want Tesla to be able to compensate employees with shares, you must also accept that Musk will have 3.5x as many shares set aside for him personally as will be set aside for every other employee at the company combined.

It must feel incredibly insulting for the engineers who actually design the cars, the manufacturing associates who build them, the software team that continues to improve the best software out there, the best-in-the-biz charging team, et cetera, to see a guy who spends most of his time working for other companies (or pretending to be good at video games on his private jet) and be told that he’s worth hundreds of thousands of times more than you are.

Even worse, the reason this vote is necessary is because the share reserve was only drained… to pay Elon Musk.

When Musk’s friends on the Tesla board decided to hand him an “Interim Award” of $26 billion without a shareholder vote, the process through which they did this was to simply award shares to Musk that had previously been set aside in Tesla’s share reserve.

Those shares had been intended to be available for years to come, as compensation for employees, to help Tesla attract and compensate talent (as the heartstring-tugging videos above suggest). But instead, almost the entire reserve was drained to give to Musk, with only one stipulation: that he continue working at Tesla for two years.

But that’s only part of the shares that Musk would get if these shareholder votes pass, because those 208 million shares aren’t even associated with the separate $1 trillion award in Proposal 4, which would include over 423 million shares. So now we’re up to 630+ million shares for Musk (~276B at current TSLA valuation), and only 60 million for every other employee at Tesla combined, being voted on at this shareholder meeting.

And even if proposal 4 is voted down, if proposal 3 passes, the board could still give Musk $97 billion worth of stock, and it’s holding employees’ compensation hostage to ensure that it be able to do so.

Electrek’s Take

I wanted to split this off as its own article because I consider this to be the most egregious portion of the various ridiculous proposals in front of Tesla shareholders this week. That last article was long, so I understand why some might not have gotten through it – so above is what I consider one of the juiciest parts.

There are plenty of other ridiculous things that will be voted on – whether to retain board members who are completely captured and working in Musk’s favor rather than the company’s, whether or not Tesla shareholders should bail out Musk’s private AI company which he started to compete with his own public AI company and has continually stolen resources from it for, and of course the absurd trillion-dollar award that Musk wants so he can control a robot army.

But this, I think, is exceptional. Not only does the vote value a bad, part-time employee as worth 3.5x as much as every other employee combined; not only does it hold those employees’ compensation hostage against the compensation of said bad employee; but it’s only necessary because of that bad employee was given more money than any other employee in the history of employment, by an order of magnitude, and the source of that money was a pool of shares that had been set aside for Tesla’s actual employees, who aren’t currently on a mission to destroy Tesla’s brand in every way possible.

And somehow, Tesla, Elon, and his friends, have the gall to put in so much effort into marketing this proposal, and suggesting that this is the best path forward for the company, and even for the world, and to suggest that anyone who correctly points out the absurdity of this idea is a “terrorist.”

Kafka couldn’t write this.

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Verge unveils wild-looking TS Pro electric motorcycle with hubless motor, longer range, and faster charging

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Verge Motorcycles just took the wraps off the next evolution of its flagship Verge TS Pro electric motorcycle at the EICMA motorcycle show in Milan, revealing a dramatically upgraded version of its best-selling model. And we’re here to see it firsthand.

The Verge TS Pro first hit the scene in 2022 as a futuristic, hubless-wheeled electric motorcycle packed with power and sleek styling. Now, the company is doubling down with a lighter, more refined, and more powerful version of the TS Pro that improves nearly every aspect of the bike’s design and performance.

At the heart of the upgrade is Verge’s eye-catching hubless Donut Motor 2.0. The patented motor still pumps out a massive 1,000 Nm of torque, but now weighs 50% less, contributing to a total motorcycle weight of 507 lbs (230 kg). That power translates to a 0–60 mph (0-96 km/h) time of 3.5 seconds.

Alongside the motor upgrade, Verge added a new 20.2 kWh battery that delivers up to 217 miles (350 km) of range and supports ultra-fast charging, adding 60 miles (96 km) of range in just 15 minutes. Verge says full charging takes under 35 minutes, and the bike now supports CCS fast charging in Europe and NACS in the US.

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Verge also introduced a series of rider-focused upgrades. The TS Pro now sports larger displays, an improved user interface, and better Bluetooth connectivity through its Verge HMI system. The riding posture has been made more ergonomic with a 25-degree angle adjustment, while suspension and damping tweaks promise a smoother ride.

Software takes center stage with the inclusion of Verge’s Starmatter platform, first launched in 2023. Starmatter combines AI, sensors, and OTA updates to tailor each ride and future-proof the bike for new features, no wrenching required.

The updated Verge TS Pro is available for reservation now via Verge’s website and US showrooms, with test rides starting in early 2026. Pricing information to be updated soon.

Electrek’s Take

Verge’s first hubless electric motorcycle took the internet by storm and launched a new style of design. Now the company is showing that its playbook of electric motorcycle innovation is still alive and well. Between the hubless motor tech, blazing-fast charging, and tech-forward design, the TS Pro feels both futuristic and realistic. Sure, it’s still limited in highway range like all electric motorcycles, but for mixed riding, that 20+ kWh pack is going to help alleviate range anxiety – and is twice as large as the pack in my LiveWire, for example.

This is one I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on.


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CNBC Daily Open: AI is carrying the weight of the U.S. market

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The “everything store” might have secured its biggest customer yet.

On Monday, Amazon announced that it had signed a $38 billion deal with OpenAI, offering the ChatGPT maker access to Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure.

On the one hand, the move isn’t too surprising — a continuation of OpenAI’s spending spree as it looks to secure resources to run its power-hungry artificial intelligence models.

On the other, OpenAI’s turn to Amazon shows that the firm is diversifying from its reliance on Microsoft, which had been its exclusive cloud services provider until this year. That could suggest OpenAI is getting ready for an initial public offering as it looks to signal “both independence and operational maturity,” as CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos writes.

Amazon shares surged on the news to close at a record high. Nvidia also had a positive day after Microsoft announced it was granted a license by the U.S. government to export the AI darling’s chips to the United Arab Emirates.

While Big Tech is attracting investor interest, the rest of the market has been rather lackluster.

Even as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite rose on the back of the tech behemoths, more than 300 stocks in the broad-based index ended the day lower — a warning sign that only a narrow segment of the market is faring well.

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Cash-strapped governments are increasingly eyeing citizens’ retirement pots — and experts are sounding the alarm

As fiscal pressures deepen from aging populations and pandemic-era debt, governments are increasingly tapping into a tempting source of capital: citizens’ retirement savings.

The trouble starts when governments interfere and tell funds to invest too much at home, which breaks the delicate balance that fund managers have calculated between risk and reward, said Sébastien Betermier, executive director at the International Centre for Pension Management.

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