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Today’s Green Deals are headlined by ALLPOWERS’ Spring Sale with up to 48% discounts on power stations, extra savings, free gifts, and more. One of the notable standouts during this event is the R2500 Portable Power Station bundled with a 600W solar panel for a new $1,349 low. Coming up behind it is Lectric’s St. Paddy’s Day Sale, which is continuing much of the brand’s spring offers while also increasing savings on some models, like the XP 3.0 e-bikes that are getting up to $574 in free gear and start from $999. Next, we have a selection of Greenworks electric pressure washers led by the Pro-tier 3,000 PSI model down at $297, as well as Jackery’s Explorer 1000 v2 Portable Power Station that is undercutting the brand’s direct Spring Sale pricing to $449. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s MOD Spring e-bike Sale with $650 off its latest release, 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 Spring Sale takes 48% off power stations with bonus savings, free gear, and more – all from $49

ALLPOWERS has launched its Spring Sale through March 25, with up to 48% being taken off power stations, solar generator bundles, and solar panels – with bonus savings for your initial cart total, as well as extra savings at certain pricing thresholds (more on those below) and free gifts. One new low price we’re seeing among this event’s direct website-exclusive offers is on the R2500 Portable Power Station that comes with a 600W solar panel for $1,349.10 shipped, after using the promo code AFSPRING at checkout for 10% off. Normally, this package would run you $2,199 at full price, which we’ve seen fall as low as $1,499 in past sales. While this is already a solid starting point, the savings get even better with the sitewide 10% off discount on your cart, which drops things lower than we’ve seen at $850 off, landing at a new all-time low.

Before we get into the solar generator’s capabilities, I want to go over the different levels of extra savings we’re seeing during ALLPOWERS’ Spring Sale. First, orders over $1,300 will receive an automatic 5% off discount, while orders over $2,200 will receive 7% off and orders over $3,000 will receive 10% off. However, you can get a sitewide 10% off your cart’s total by using the exclusive code AFSPRING at checkout, which doesn’t seem to stack with the other savings – meaning you can skip over those automatic discounts for the maximum savings on any order by just using the code! You’ll also score some free gear at certain thresholds too, with orders over $1,900 getting a free 100W solar panel, while orders over $2,500 get a free S300 288Wh power station and orders over $3,500 get a free 200W solar panel.

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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 (so this featured bundle with 600W panel gets you fairly close to this timeframe). 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 are quite a few other options for the R2500 power station, with the unit alone costing you $809 (down from $1,599). Next, there are a few varying solar generator bundles, like the power station coming with a 200W solar panel for $989 (down from $1,799), a 400W solar panel for $1,169 (also down from $1,799), or you can double its capacity with an expansion battery for $1,168 (down from $2,498).

***Note: The prices below have not had any of the extra savings factored in – be sure to use the promo code AFSPRING at checkout to score the maximum savings though!

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You can browse the entire linup of deals during ALLPOWERS’ Spring Sale by following this link to the landing page.

Lectric XP 3.0 e-bike

Lectric’s St. Paddy’s Day flash sale increases savings on XP 3.0 e-bikes with up to $574 in free gear from $999

Lectric has launched its St. Paddy’s Day flash sale through the holiday next week, which is continuing much of its Spring Forward Sale pricing (along with the clearance sales and the extra battery promotion) while also offering a buy-two-get-one-free deal on accessories. We are spotting a bundle increase on Lectric’s popular XP 3.0 e-bikes, with the Long-Range models retaining their price cuts to $1,139 shipped with $574 in free gear while the standard models are at $999 shipped with $455 in free gear. These packages would normally run you $1,713 and $1,454, respectively, but you’ll be getting the biggest bundle savings we’ve seen yet in 2025. If you go with the standard models, you’ll be getting a comfort seat, suspension seat post, Elite headlight, an accordion style bike lock, and steel-encased front and rear cargo baskets. The Long-Range models also get this same gear with the addition of a phone mount, a bottle holder with a mounting adapter, and a bell.

The most popular of the brand’s commuting solutions, the XP 3.0 e-bikes all sport a 500W hub motor that peaks up at 1,000W to hit 20 MPH speeds, which can go higher up to 28 MPH speeds, depending on your state’s laws. The main difference between the standard models and the long-range models is the battery – which will either provide you with 45 miles of travel (standard) or up to 65 miles (long-range) when utilizing the PAS support. Keep in mind for folks who enjoy cruising with only electric power that you’ll get about half the mileage. Along with the free add-on gear, you’ll also enjoy some quality stock features, like the integrated rear cargo rack, puncture-resistant tires, 180mm hydraulic disc brakes, a foldable body, an LCD display, and more.

And if you’re interested in taking advantage of the sale’s buy-two-get-one-free accessory deals to deck out your e-bike that you already own, be sure to follow this link to the landing page to browse and shop among the large collection of included accessories. The discount will be automatically applied in your cart to the lowest-priced item.

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greenworks pro 3,000 PSI electric pressure washer

Gear up for outdoor cleaning with Greenworks’ Pro-tier 3,000 PSI electric pressure washer at $297

Amazon is now offering the Greenworks Pro 3,000 PSI Electric Pressure Washer for $296.99 shipped. This model would normally run you $450, though we’ve been seeing it regularly drop down between $310 and $350 during most sales over the last year, with it last hitting the $290 low back during Black Friday sales. Today’s deal comes with a 34% markdown, cutting $153 off the going rate and landing it at the second-lowest price we have tracked – just $7 above the all-time low.

With spring approaching, plenty of folks are gearing up to start their cleaning routines, especially outdoors, and this Pro-tier electric pressure washer from Greenworks comes ready to tackle the grime and return pristine appearances to your home. The heavy-duty frame houses the 14A TruBrushless motor that maxes out an a powerful 3,000 PSI with a 1.1 to 2.0 GPM flow rate. Along with its powerful performance, there’s also an onboard one-gallon detergent tank and a bunch of included accessories too – with five versatile nozzles that have provided onboard storage alongside the 25 feet of non-marring hose. To help save you money while ensuring a longer lifespan for its motor, it’s been given Greenworks’ Total Stop System that shuts off the pump the moment the trigger is disengaged.

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Jackery explorer 1000 v2 portable power station

Amazon beats out Jackery’s direct sale pricing on the Explorer 1000 v2 1,070Wh LiFePO4 power station for $449

Jackery’s official Amazon storefront is undercutting its direct Spring Sale pricing (ending March 12) on the Explorer 1000 v2 Portable Power Station that is down at $449 shipped, after clipping the on-page $50 off coupon. Normally going for $799 at full price, discounts have mainly been keeping it at $499 in 2025, though we did spy it undercutting its Valentine’s sale last month in a similar fashion – with this rate only beaten out by the $399 low we saw during Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales. You can pick one up for your backup power needs today with a $350 markdown, which is the best we’ve seen since November, landing the cost back at the second-lowest price we have tracked.

One of Jackery’s upgraded v2 models that sport the brand’s ChargeShield 2.0 tech for 62 forms of charging protections, the Explorer 1000 v2 can handle outdoor ventures and emergency backup needs alike with a 1,070Wh LiFePO4 capacity and 1,500W output (surging to 3,000W) through its seven port options. Plugging it into a wall outlet recharges the battery in 1.6 hours, which can be cut down to just one hour after you’ve activated the emergency charging features through its app – giving you ensured juice during sudden storm warnings or for last-minute plans. There’s also a maximum 600W solar input, which regains a full battery in three hours in the sun – plus, you can start towards that goal with a 200W solar panel bundled alongside it for $749 right now, down from $1,299.

Aside from this deal, we’re still seeing some incredible deals coming from Jackery’s direct Spring Sale, with up to 50% off units, new solar generator low prices, extra savings, and more – but don’t dawdle too long as the sale ends tomorrow night (March 12).

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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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Survey Sunday: we asked WHY you chose home solar, you answered

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For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about some of the factors that are convincing Electrek readers to add home solar power systems to their homes. After receiving over a thousand responses, here’s what you told us.

Our last survey focused on the loss of the 30% federal home solar tax credit that’s set to expire at the end of this year. One of the commenters expressed frustration with the question, saying that – tax credit or no – there were still plenty of other good reasons to go solar.

When our readers share their great ideas with us, we listen, and our most recent survey asked, “The federal solar tax credit ends after December 31st, but there are still plenty of reasons to go solar. What’s YOUR reason?”

Why YOU choose solar

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Perhaps the most surprising result of this survey is that, with just 32.6% of the votes, “Lowering my monthly utility bills” wasn’t the biggest overall reason for people choosing to go solar. That result proving, if nothing else, that Electrek readers might be willing to spend a little more to do something positive for their environment and their community.

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“Energy independence and less reliance on the grid” was the top reason readers would add a solar system to their homes, with over 25% reporting that they were convinced about the value of solar because, “It’s the right thing to do, climate-wise.”

The final surprising result was that just 2.33% of respondents – just 25 Electrek readers – said that the improved resale value of home solar was your primary decision-driver.

Surprising, perhaps, not because of the solar panels themselves, but because it really is a buyers’ market these days, especially in sun-rich markets like Texas and Florida, which have flipped the script in recent months, posting huge inventory numbers and plunging real estate prices throughout the 2025 hurricane season.

“With a rate of 6.5% for a $1 million loan, the [monthly] payment is now significantly more than it was two years ago—$6,300 versus $4,200,” according to Ron Shuffield, the Miami-based president and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices EWM Realty. “When we have this conversation with our sellers, they say, ‘Well, why can’t I get what my neighbor got two or three years ago?’ And then we say, ‘Well, because your buyer does not have the same amount of money.’”

In that context, I’d expect sellers would at least try to differentiate their properties with features like home solar and battery energy storage. But, then again, what do I know? You guys know stuff – let us know what you make of this little look into the minds of your fellow readers and what conclusions you’d draw in the comments.

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If you’re considering going solar, it’s always a good idea to get quotes from a few installers. To make sure you find a trusted, reliable solar installer near you that offers competitive pricing, check out EnergySage, a free service that makes it easy for you to go solar. It has hundreds of pre-vetted solar installers competing for your business, ensuring you get high-quality solutions and save 20-30% compared to going it alone. Plus, it’s free to use, and you won’t get sales calls until you select an installer and share your phone number with them. 

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Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in 2025.

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Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is doing all it can to keep pace with larger rival OpenAI, which is spending money at a historic pace with backing from Microsoft and Nvidia. Of late, Anthropic has been facing an equally daunting antagonist: the U.S. government.

David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as President Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, has been publicly criticizing Anthropic for what he’s called a campaign by the company to support “the Left’s vision of AI regulation.”

After Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, AI startup’s head of policy, wrote an essay this week titled “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear,” Sacks lashed out against the company on X.

“Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering,” Sacks wrote on Tuesday.

OpenAI, meanwhile, has established itself as a partner to the White House since the very beginning of the second Trump administration. On Jan. 21, the day after the inauguration, Trump announced a joint venture called Stargate with OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank to invest billions of dollars in U.S. AI infrastructure.

Sacks’ criticism of Anthropic hits on the company’s very foundation and its original reason for being. Siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei left OpenAI in late 2020 and started Anthropic with a mission to build safer AI. OpenAI had started as a nonprofit lab in 2015, but was rapidly moving towards commercialization, with hefty funding from Microsoft.

Now they’re the two most highly valued private AI companies in the country, with OpenAI commanding a $500 billion valuation and Anthropic capturing a valuation of $183 billion. OpenAI leads the consumer AI market with its ChatGPT and Sora apps, while Anthropic’s Claude models are particularly popular in the enterprise.

When it comes to regulation, the companies have very different views. OpenAI has lobbied for fewer guardrails, while Anthropic has opposed part of the Trump administration’s effort to limit protections.

Anthropic has repeatedly pushed back against efforts by the federal government to preempt state-level regulation of AI, most notably a Trump-backed provision that would have blocked such rules for 10 years.

That proposal, part of the draft “Big Beautiful Bill,” was ultimately abandoned. Anthropic later endorsed California’s SB 53, which would require transparency and safety disclosures from AI companies, effectively going in the opposite direction from the administration’s approach.

“SB 53’s transparency requirements will have an important impact on frontier AI safety,” Anthropic wrote in a blog post on Sept. 8. “Without it, labs with increasingly powerful models could face growing incentives to dial back their own safety and disclosure programs in order to compete.” 

Anthropic didn’t provide a comment for this story. Sacks didn’t respond to a request for comment.

U.S. President Donald Trump sits next to Crypto czar David Sacks at the White House Crypto Summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025.

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For Sacks, the priority in AI is to innovate as fast as possible to make sure the U.S. doesn’t lose to China.

“The U.S. is currently in an AI race, and our chief global competition is China,” Sacks said in an onstage interview at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this week. “They’re the only other country that has the talent, the resources, and the technology expertise to basically beat us in AI.”

But Sacks has adamantly denied that he’s trying to take down Anthropic in the process of lifting up U.S. AI.

In a post on X on Thursday, Sacks contested a Bloomberg story that linked his comments to growing federal scrutiny of Anthropic.

“Nothing could be further from the truth,” he wrote. “Just a couple of months ago, the White House approved Anthropic’s Claude app to be offered to all branches of government through the GSA App Store.”

Rather, Sacks claimed that Anthropic has cast itself as a political underdog, positioning its leadership as principled defenders of public safety while pursuing a public campaign that frames any pushback as partisan targeting.

“It has been Anthropic’s government affairs and media strategy to position itself consistently as a foe of the Trump administration,” Sacks said. “But don’t whine to the media that you’re being ‘targeted’ when all we’ve done is articulate a policy disagreement.”

Sacks pointed to several examples of what he sees as adversarial actions. He referenced Dario Amodei’s comparison of Trump to a “feudal warlord” during the 2024 election. Amodei publicly supported Kamala Harris’ campaign for president.

Sacks also referenced op-eds the company ran opposing key parts of the Trump administration’s AI policy agenda, including its proposed moratorium on state-level regulation and elements of its Middle East and chip export strategy. Anthropic also hired senior Biden-era officials to lead its government relations team, Sacks noted.

The AI czar took particular umbrage to Clark’s essay and his warnings about the potentially transformative and destabilizing power of AI.

“My own experience is that as these AI systems get smarter and smarter, they develop more and more complicated goals. When these goals aren’t absolutely aligned with both our preferences and the right context, the AI systems will behave strangely,” Clark wrote. “Another reason for my fear is I can see a path to these systems starting to design their successors, albeit in a very early form.”

Sacks said such “fear-mongering” is holding back innovation.

“It is principally responsible for the state regulatory frenzy that is damaging the startup ecosystem,” Sacks wrote on X.

White House AI czar David Sacks: AI race is even more important than the space race

Anthropic has also stayed away from actions that many other tech companies have taken explicitly to appease Trump.

Leaders from Meta, OpenAI, and Nvidia have courted Trump and his allies, attending White House dinners, committing tens of billions of dollars to U.S. infrastructure projects, and softening their public postures. Amodei wasn’t invited to a recent White House dinner involving numerous industry leaders, the company confirmed to The Information.

Still, Anthropic continues to hold major federal contracts, including a $200 million deal with the Department of Defense and access to federal agencies through the General Services Administration. It also recently formed a national security advisory council to align its work with U.S. interests, and began offering a version of its Claude model to government customers for $1 per year.

But Sacks isn’t the only influential Republican tech investor voicing his critique of the company.

Keith Rabois, whose husband works in the Trump administration, waded into the mix this week.

“If Anthropic actually believed their rhetoric about safety, they can always shut down the company,” Rabois wrote on X. “And lobby then.”

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Big MAN arrives: Italian logistics firm rolls out first MAN eTGX 6×2-4 rigid truck

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Fratelli Foppiani receives first MAN eTGX electric trucks in Italy

Italian logistics specialist Fratelli Foppiani Trasporti has become one of the first operators to deploy the new MAN eTGX electric trucks, taking delivery of a 4×2 semi tractor and a new, 6×2-4 rigid truck packing absolutely MASSIVE battery packs that are ready to get to work.

The Italian shipping firm ordered its MAN units back in 2023, making these among the first regular-production electric trucks from the German truck brand to be delivered to customers. The trucks seem to have been worth the wait, too – the 6×2-4 rigid unit packs a whopping 445 kWh modular battery pack while the 4×2 semi arrived with a massive 534 kWh pack, along with MAN SafeStop Assist, MAN OptiView digital mirrors, GM cab, regenerative braking system, TipMatic 4 semiauto transmission, and MAN Digital Services packages.

Those batteries will give the eTGX trucks more than enough range to handle Fratelli Foppiani’s existing 4×2 routes, which go primarily from Corsico (Milan), with routes including Rozzano, Voghera and Brescia. The rigid truck will operate from Busto Arsizio (Varese), serving areas across Milan and Bergamo, Italy.

“This delivery represents a fundamental step forward for sustainable transport in Italy,” said Marc Martinez, Managing Director MAN Truck & Bus Italia. “We are proud to have achieved it together with a long-standing partner such as Fratelli Foppiani, which has once again demonstrated vision and courage.”

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The trucks were delivered during a ceremony at the company’s Corsico headquarters this month, coinciding with the company’s 65th anniversary.

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Not shy about the EV part; via MAN.

MAN Trucks’ fleet advisors believe that, in most cases, an electric semi will pay for itself in about three years, thanks in part to Europe’s much higher diesel fuel prices compared to the US (about $6.80/gal compared to $3.70 here, last time I checked).

Doing that complicated fleet assessment math for me, while giving me one of the best headlines in the industry, is just one more reason I love these guys.

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