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Our penultimate Green Deals of this week is headlined by EcoFlow’s Game Day Power sale that is taking up to 50% off its units, with a bonus 5% sitewide discount, 15% off accessory discounts, and 3x EcoCredit rewards with purchases – with many of its New Year deals continuing. We did spot some new low prices though, like on the DELTA Pro solar generator bundle that comes with two 220W solar panels and a free protective bag for $2,374, among others. Rad Power has also launched a new flash sale running parallel to its ongoing deals, dropping two models to their lowest rates, one of which is the RadRover 6 Plus Step-Thru e-bike hitting a new $1,199 low. That’s not the only EV lows here, as Greenworks’ 80V Venture e-bikes are all 25% off, with the 27.5-inch commuter e-bike dropping to a new $1,425 low. Lastly, we have Camplux’s new Nano 3 Max Portable Water Heater and Shower returning to its $360 low in its third-ever discount. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s Anker winter sale roundup, the rare Orbit Velo bike tracker 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.

EcoFlow Game Day Power sale drops DELTA Pro 440W solar generator bundle with free bag to new $2,374 low (50% off)

With the Super Bowl on the horizon, EcoFlow is switching up savings with its Game Day Power sale through February 5 that is cutting up to $2,999 off power station price tags, with a bonus 5% off sitewide coupon code, a 15% off accessory discount, and 3x EcoCredits for all the deals on the sale’s main page (listed below). One bundle option that stands out is the site-exclusive DELTA Pro Portable Power Station package with two 220W solar panels and a protective bag for $2,374.05 shipped, after using the code 25EFDCAFF5 at checkout. This combination of items usually runs $4,997 in full, with last year’s Black Friday savings taking things lowest to $2,399. Today, you’re looking at a combined 55% price cut to a new all-time low price that beats out its Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing.

Able to cover your on-the-go plans as much as it can cover emergency backup needs, EcoFlow’s DELTA Pro provides a much larger 3,600Wh LiFePO4 capacity that can be invested in over time and expanded all the way to 25kWh with additional equipment. With a solid 3,600W output through its 14 port options that can handle most appliances, that number surges up to 7,200W to ensure everything essential gets the juice needed to stay running.

Recharging the station’s own battery is fairly quick, as plugging it into a standard wall outlet will refuel it back to full in just 1.8 hours, or you can get a full recharge in 2.8 hours when utilizing the maximum 1,600W of solar input. All the usual remote smart controls you’ve expected from EcoFlow are available here and can be accessed through the companion app when connected by Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.

***Note. The 5% sitewide coupon has not been factored in to the prices below, make sure to enter the code 25EFDCAFF5 at checkout to score the maximum savings!

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There’s even more discounts during EcoFlow’s Game Day Power sale which you can browse in full here, just keep in mind that the maximum 3x EcoCredits reward only applies to the main sale’s page deals (listed above). If you’re considering the brand’s DELTA 3 Plus Portable Power Station, be sure to check out the exclusive new $541 low from Wellbots that we’ve secured for our readers.

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Rad Power flash sale drops RadRover 6 Plus and RadExpand 5 e-bikes to lowest prices starting from $1,099

Rad Power is having a flash sale with up to $500 in savings on two of its e-bikes through the weekend, alongside its ongoing sale that ends January 29. Of the inclusions, our favorite out of the two is the RadRover 6 Plus Step-Thru Fat-Tire e-bike at $1,199 shipped. Normally priced at $1,599, we saw it hit its lowest rate back at the end of its September fall sales when it fell to $1,299, with Black Friday and Christmas sales keeping costs up at $1,399. Today’s limited-time savings are cutting $400 off the tag to provide you with a new all-time low rate and the perfect opportunity to land your ride through the rest of the year.

My parents own the now discontinued high-step model of the RadRover 6 Plus e-bike, which I regularly cruise around on when visiting them in Virginia, and which I detailed in my Travel Kit here. There’s little question why it’s become one of the brand’s more popular models recently, with its durable design and solid lineup of features. You’ll get a reliable 45+ miles of travel when utilizing its five levels of PAS at up to 20 MPH top speeds thanks to the combination of its 750W brushless geared hub motor and semi-integrated 672Wh battery. There’s also a throttle for pure electric riding, but keep in mind it will cost you mileage to solely use.

As I mentioned in my Travel Kit coverage, this model is a great companion for rides on the streets and for when things go off-road, as the thick Kenda Juggernaut puncture-resistant tires easily tackled the swampy and varying terrain, with the water-resistant connectors providing added protections during these parts of my journeys. Along with these, the bike also comes equipped with a 7-speed Shimano derailleur, fenders to go over both wheels and a solid LCD display to monitor and switch through its settings.

The other offer during this short-term flash sale is the RadExpand 5 Folding e-bike at $1,099 shipped, which lands back at the all-time low we only saw during a similar 3-day Cyber Monday flash sale. It sports the same motor and battery combination as the above model, providing the same 20 MPH speeds and 45+ miles of travel through its five PAS levels – all on a single charge. The highlight of its design is the folding frame that makes it far easier to store in tighter spaces (even car trunks/truck beds). It features an LED headlight and taillight integrated with the rear cargo rack that sports automatic and brake lighting. There’s also the 20-inch by 4-inch fat tires with fenders over each, a water-resistant wiring harness, a 7-speed MicroShift derailleur, and an LED display.

Be sure to also check out Rad Power’s full sale spread with its newest models getting free accessories, select tried and true models hitting some of their lowest recent rates, and even extra battery discounts.

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Greenworks’ 80V Venture e-bikes at 25% off with the 27.5-inch commuter hitting a new $1,425 low

Direct from Greenworks, we just spotted all three of the brand’s 80V Venture-series e-bikes getting 25% taken off their price tags, with the lowest price being on the 27.5-inch Commuter e-bike that has fallen to $1,424.99 shipped. Normally keeping to its full $1,900 price tag, we’ve seen very limited discounts since it hit the market at the start of 2024, with Black Friday sales bringing costs down lowest to $1,520. That Black Friday pricing is beaten out here though, saving you $475 at a new all-time low price. It’s even beating out Amazon, where it still sits at its full MSRP.

This 80V commuter e-bike is one of Greenworks’ Venture series models, designed to expand the brand’s versatile battery ecosystem, which is standard across most of its tools. The 350W brushless rear hub motor (that peaks at 500W) is powered by the brand’s included 4.0Ah battery (and you’ll also get a rapid charger) that can be switched out with other tools/batteries you may already own.

Utilizing three different forms of pedal assistance as you ride, you’ll be able to cruise around at 20 MPH top speeds for up to 22 miles on a single 40-minute charge. It also features a front suspension fork, an adjustable suspension seat, a 7-speed Shimano shifter, 27.5-inch Kenda tires, an LED headlight, a rear cargo rack, as well as an LCD display paired with a simple control panel along the handlebars.

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Camplux’s portable Nano 3 Max heats water for brewing, doing dishes, showering, more at $360 low

Coming to us through its official Amazon storefront, Camplux is offering its Nano 3 Max Portable Propane Water Heater & Shower for $359.99 shipped, after clipping the on-page $80 off coupon. Released in November, this newer model has seen few discounts from its full $440 price tag since, which was dropped to $360 for the first time in December and has only repeated once for a short time at the top of 2025. Today’s deal marks the third-ever discount we’ve tracked, cutting $80 off the tag and giving you the means to enjoy outdoor ventures without worrying about bathing options.

Heading out into the wilds beyond your home? Don’t want to have to struggle looking for public means to wash up? Well, Camplux’s new Nano 3 Max is the perfect device to add to your nomad kit, as it comes battery-powered for up to 100 minutes of continuous use after a 3-hour charge (provided you keep its submersion pump in a water source the entire timeframe. It utilizes a small propane tank to provide you with hot water in seconds (while also ensuring the lowest emissions), which you can use for beverages, doing dishes on the fly, or to mainly shower via the included attachments. There’s even a secondary pet shower hose for your furrier companions, as well as three adjustable spray modes.

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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 Full Self-Driving hasn’t improved all year and Musk points to more wait

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Tesla’s ‘Supervised Full Self-Driving’ (FSD) in customer vehicles hasn’t improved all year, based on the best available data previously praised by CEO Elon Musk.

Now Musk points to having to wait until later this year, but wait for what?

Tesla’s last major FSD update, v13, was released in December 2024.

Musk had previously claimed that v13 would enable “a 5 to 6x increase in miles between disengagements compared to v12.5.”

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The automaker never released any disengagement data to prove any improvement. Therefore, we have had to rely on crowdsourced data. There is a particular dataset that Musk himself previously shared positively, suggesting that the limited dataset is somewhat reflective of what Tesla is seeing in its own data.

Based on this dataset, v13 on Tesla’s HW4 vehicles was a real improvement, but it only brought a 2x improvement in miles between critical disengagement – nowhere near the claim “5 to 6x” increase.

As we previously reported, HW3 vehicles are still stuck on v12, and Musk has admitted that the hardware will never support the promised unsupervised self-driving capability, with no plans to rectify the situation in sight.

Now, six months after Tesla released v13, the program has stagnated as the automaker shifted all its efforts to a “robotaxi” pilot program in Austin, Texas.

Tesla has released a new version, v13.2.9 (left), but it has been performing worse than the previous update (v13.2.8 – right) after over 5,000 miles of data:

The latest data on Tesla FSD v13.2.9 points to 371 miles between critical disengagements.

As we previously reported, the robotaxi pilot program in Austin is a moving of the goalpost for Tesla, which has been promising that all its customer vehicles built since 2016 would become capable of unsupervised self-driving with future software updates.

It operates only in a geo-fenced area of Austin, where Tesla is specifically training its neural nets to be optimized for the area. Furthermore, it is using “plenty of teleoperation” to support the fleet, something that can’t scale to customer vehicles.

The hope is that Tesla’s optimization and focus on this pilot project in Austin will ultimately result in Tesla improving FSD in customer vehicles.

Musk has now commented on this effort:

It’s a new version of software, but will merge to the main branch soon. We have a more advanced model in alpha stage that has ~4X the params, but still requires a lot of polishing. That’s probably ready for deploy in a few months.

Quickly after claiming a 4x increase in parameters, Musk said that this would be coming “later this year”:

~4.5X increase in params should be ready for wide release later this year. Super frugal use of memory bandwidth, caching exactly what is needed & squeezing microseconds out of everything are needed to maintain the frame rate. And the whole system needs to be retrained.

It’s worth noting that Musk’s timelines for FSD releases have historically been extremely late.

The better question is what this long-awaited update will bring to Tesla owners?

Electrek’s Take

The promised and paid-for unsupervised self-driving? No. The “unsupervised” self-driving that Tesla is launching as part of the pilot program in Austin is not transferable to the customer fleet. It is geofenced in a small area around Austin, Texas, and it relies on teleoperation, which doesn’t scale to millions of vehicles like Tesla promised.

It’s also important to note that it’s not the first time that Musk has promised a significant increase in parameters. The CEO said that FSD v12.5 on HW4 was a “5x increase in parameters” and that was quite disappointing.

FSD v12.5 on HW4 (left) only brought a 22% increase in miles between critical disengagement compared to v12.3 (right):

In fact, the miles between critical disengagements plummeted with other v12.5 point updates, and it ultimately ended at 184 miles between critical disengagements, significantly below v12.3:

Therefore, it’s hard to get too excited about a new “~4.5x increase in parameters” when that’s what happened the last time Musk called for it.

Additionally, at that time, Musk stated that HW4 could support an “8x increase in parameters,” and it was around this time that he began to express less confidence in his comments about HW3.

It took another 6 months before he finally admitted that HW3 would not support unsupervised self-driving, and Tesla basically stopped making any significant updates on the hardware since.

Tesla is also quickly approaching the limits of HW4 with recent updates.

I think it’s becoming clear that the robotaxi launch in Austin is just another distraction from the fact that Tesla can’t deliver on its promise of making millions of vehicles delivered since 2016 capable of “unsupervised self-driving.”

I’m sure that the effort is going to result in improvements in FSD in customer vehicles later this year, but it won’t be to the level needed to achieve unsupervised self-driving without teleoperation, which again is not scalable.

If Tesla can get closer to 1,000 miles between critical disengagements, it would be nice, but 99% of the value of FSD lies in level 4-5 unsupervised self-driving, and we won’t be even close to that. And that’s what people paid for.

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BP takeover speculation heats up as UAE oil giant ADNOC enters the fray for gas assets

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UAE oil giant ADNOC has joined the fray of firms said to be circling some of BP‘s highly prized assets, as takeover speculation for the embattled energy major kicks into overdrive.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is thought to be weighing up a move for some of the London-listed firm’s assets, should the oil major break up or seek to divest more units, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.

ADNOC is reportedly most interested in BP’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) assets, although it is also said to have considered a full takeover of the company. It is understood by Bloomberg that any prospective deal would likely take place via ADNOC’s international unit, XRG.

Spokespeople at BP, ADNOC and XRG declined to comment on the speculation when contacted by CNBC.

A protracted period of underperformance relative to its industry peers has thrust BP into the spotlight as a prime takeover candidate. British rival Shell, as well as U.S. oil giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron, are among some of the names that have been touted as possible suitors.

Any potential deal between ADNOC and BP is seen as far from a foregone conclusion, but analysts point out that the two companies share a long-standing relationship across hydrocarbons and renewables over a range of geographies, most notably in Abu Dhabi and most recently in Egypt.

Former BP CEO Bernard Looney, who left the company after less than four years in the job in September 2023, sits on the XRG board alongside ADNOC CEO Sultan al-Jaber.

Maurizio Carulli, global energy and materials analyst at Quilter Cheviot, said ADNOC’s purported interest in some of BP’s assets is a “significant” development — albeit one that is somewhat expected, given ADNOC is a growing, cash-rich business looking to expand further into gas.

“That said, it seems unlikely that Adnoc would consider a full bid for BP as a whole given the company would not be strategically interested in BP’s oil assets. A few other listed oil majors might, though,” Carulli told CNBC by email.

“BP’s discrete assets, both upstream and downstream, will no doubt capture large interest from a number of both energy and private equity players,” he added.

Strategic reset

Last month, BP reportedly attracted interest from a number of possible buyers for its Castrol lubricants business, a unit thought to be one of the “crown jewels” of its portfolio.

Energy companies including India’s Reliance Industries and Saudi Arabia’s oil behemoth Aramco, as well as private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Lone Star Funds, were all previously touted as suitors for BP’s Castrol unit, Bloomberg reported on May 28, citing people familiar with the matter.

Apollo Global Management and Lone Star declined to comment on the report. CNBC has also contacted Reliance Industries and Aramco.

BP’s future is bright — if it can get through the next 6 months, analyst says

BP is seeking to fend off a prospective takeover by restoring investor confidence. The company launched a fundamental strategic reset earlier in the year and, despite posting weaker-than-expected first-quarter profit, CEO Murray Auchincloss told CNBC in late April that the firm was “off to a great start” in delivering on its new direction.

Shares of BP have stabilized in recent weeks, following a sharp fall in early April, as trade war volatility rocked financial markets. The stock price is down more than 4% in the year to date.

Allen Good, director of equity research at Morningstar, said it is unlikely BP will be prepared to split with significant pieces of its upstream portfolio, given the firm’s recent green strategy U-turn to double down on hydrocarbons.

Cars are seen at ADNOC gas station in United Arab Emirates on November 26, 2023.

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As part of BP’s strategic reset, the company announced plans to increase annual oil and gas spending to investment to $10 billion through 2027, while slashing spending on renewables. It is also targeting $20 billion in divestments over the coming years.

“Activist pressure has been more on further cost and capital reductions, not necessarily core divestitures. Breaking up the company is unlikely to be the solution shareholders are looking for,” Allen told CNBC by email.

‘A global energy and chemicals leader’

For XRG, which ADNOC launched last year, reports of interest in some of BP’s assets come as the investment company seeks deals on gas and chemicals assets to help it reach an enterprise value of $80 billion.

“We are committed to delivering long-term value for our stakeholders and reinforcing Abu Dhabi and the UAE’s role as a global energy and chemicals leader,” ADNOC’s al-Jaber said at the time.

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) and president of COP28, during the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, Texas, US, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.

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Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said any potential transactions between ADNOC and BP were likely to be hard-driven, with each party striving to defend its own interests.

“BP is under pressure to deliver on its goal to reduce debt, through improved organic cash flow and asset disposals,” Mould told CNBC.

“ADNOC will be well aware of this, and how the clock may be ticking so far as BP management is concerned, and it will therefore look to drive a hard bargain in the process, should it indeed be interested in some of BP’s assets, as reports suggest,” he added.

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Chime prices IPO at $27 per share, valuing fintech company at $11.6 billion ahead of Nasdaq debut

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Chime priced its IPO at $27 per share on Wednesday, above the expected range, in an offering that values the provider of online banking services at $11.6 billion

The company raised roughly $700 million in the IPO, with another $165 million worth of shares being sold by existing investors. The stock is expected to begin trading Thursday under ticker symbol CHYM.

The offering comes after a years-long freeze in the fintech IPO pipeline, as rising interest rates and valuation resets kept many late-stage companies on the sidelines. The market has started to loosen. Trading platform eToro jumped 29% in its Nasdaq debut last month, and crypto company Circle popped after hitting the market last week.

Online lender Klarna, meanwhile, has delayed its IPO plans and last month reported steep quarterly losses.

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Chime’s decision to go public — even after a steep cut from its last private valuation of $25 billion — marks a major test of investor appetite for consumer-facing finance companies. SoftBank, Tiger Global, and Sequoia all invested in the 2021 round at Chime’s private market peak.

The company’s top institutional shareholders are DST Global and Crosslink Capital, which owned 17% and 9.5%, respectively, of shares before the offering.

Chime’s core business — offering no-fee banking services, debit cards, and early paycheck access — draws most of its revenue from interchange fees. The company competes in various areas with fintech incumbents PayPal, Square and SoFi.

Revenue in the latest quarter climbed 32% from a year earlier to $518.7 million. Net income narrowed to $12.9 million from $15.9 million a year ago.

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are leading the IPO.

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