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Headlining today’s Green Deals is Jackery’s Home Improvement Sale, which is continuing its previous flash sale offers alongside new additions, one of which being the Explorer 3000 Pro solar generator bundle with a 500W panel at its $1,999 low – plus, continuing free gifts on the brand’s newest Explorer 5000 Plus and its bundles, and more. We also have the unexpected price cut on Lectric’s XPeak 2.0 Off-Road Long-range e-bikes to a new $1,579 low, while also coming with $336 in free gear during the brand’s latest sale, as well as EGO’s 56V 765 CFM Cordless Leaf Blower with 5.0Ah and 2.5Ah batteries down at $330. Bringing up the rear is Govee’s Smart Electric Composter which has dropped down to $305. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s latest sales from Lectric, Segway, Aventon, 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.

Jackery’s Explorer 3000 Pro comes with 500W solar panel at $1,999 low in Home Improvement Sale

Jackery has switched over to its Home Improvement Sale through March 28 with up to 50% discounts on new offers added alongside the previous flash sale offers, many of which are dropping further in price. One notable ongoing deal for the second time is Jackery’s Explorer 3000 Pro Portable Power Station bundled alongside a 500W solar panel for $1,999 shipped. This new package would normally run you $3,999 at full price, which we saw brought down to today’s rate only a few days ago for the first time, which is continuing in this longer-form sale. We did see a similar bundle with two 200W panels two weeks ago among the brand’s spring sale savings hitting $1,994, so considering you’re getting an extra 100W of solar input here for just $5 more (in the form of its newest solar panel model to boot), this deal is looking all the better. This is a 50% markdown we’re seeing, cutting $2,000 off the going rate and officially marking its current all-time low, which you won’t find at Amazon either.

If you’re dusting off your camping gear – especially if it includes an RV – or even preparing for any home backup emergency needs, Jackery’s Explorer 3000 Pro is a larger and more versatile option to cover all your bases. It starts with a sizeable 3,024Wh battery capacity, delivering up to 3,000W of power output that can surge to 6,000W for larger appliances. With 10 output port options, one of which is an RV-dedicated TT30 port, this is one of the brand’s few and best options for motor home living alongside the Explorer 2000 Plus and Explorer 5000 Plus – both of which come as modular and expandable options (see their deals below).

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Recharging for the Explorer 3000 Pro takes just about 2.4 hours when plugged into a wall outlet, or it sports a maximum 1,200W of solar input that can push the battery back to full in three to four hours (so around twice as long for this bundle combo we’re seeing here). It also provides the option for connecting to your car if you’re desperate, recharging back to full in about 35 hours.

***Note: One thing we’re seeing continue from the previous flash sale is the inclusion of a free Explorer 100 Plus 99Wh LiFePO4 power station along with your purchase of the Explorer 5000 Plus station and its bundle packages. Some of these deals are matching at Amazon, though keep in mind that they won’t give you the free gift there.

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You can browse the entirety of Jackery’s Home Improvement Sale on the landing page here, and be sure to get your orders in by March 28, when the sale ends. 

Lectric XPeak 2.0 off-road long-range e-bike

Lectric’s XPeak 2.0 off-road long-range e-bikes with 80-mile range and $336 in free gear fall to new $1,579 low

Popping our head back into Lectric’s ongoing Nothin’ But Net Sale, which is offering up to $762 in free gear along with e-bike purchases, we spotted a price cut on the brand’s XPeak 2.0 Off-Road Long-Range e-bikes to $1,579 shipped along with $336 in free gear. Originally priced at $1,699 since launching in November, this is the first time we’ve seen a price cut on one of the brand’s newest models, with the bundle here normally costing you $1,915 ($2,035 at original pricing), marking a new all-time low. Along with your purchase, you’ll also be getting a rear cargo rack, fenders over both tires, an Elite headlight, and a suspension seat post. Head below for more details on this model, as well as the rest of the sale’s lineup of deals.

Lectric’s XPeak 2.0 Long-Range e-bikes sport significant upgrades from its predecessor, like the addition of a new torque sensor that pairs with the brand’s PWR+ tech for more responsive PAS support for up to 80 miles of travel thanks to the improved 20Ah battery. It also has the 750W Stealth M24 rear hub-motor (peaking at 1,310W) that provides riders with top speeds of 28 MPH, when permitted by your local laws. You can also find the standard XPeak 2.0 e-bikes with a 60-mile travel range at $1,399 shipped and coming with $316 in free gear.

All of the XPeak 2.0 models come with notable structural upgrades too, like the new hydroformed aluminum frame, a higher-end RST Renegade front suspension fork, lock-on hand grips, a larger 203 mm front disc for the hydraulic mineral oil brakes, and a new color LCD display. There’s plenty of continuing stock features from its previous generation too, including a Shimano 8-speed Altus derailleur, puncture-resistant off-road tires, a throttle for pure electric riding (though this decreases mileage), removable pedals, accessory mounting points, and hidden cable routing, as well as all the add-on accessories you’ll get from the bundle.

Be sure to checkout the full lineup of deals from Lectric’s sale in our original coverage here, especially the exclusive Nothin’ But Net cargo packages on the brand’s XP 3.0 e-bikes.

EGO Power+ 56V 765 CFM cordless leaf blower

Grab EGO’s 56V 765 CFM cordless electric leaf blower with 5.0Ah and 2.5Ah batteries at $330

EGO’s Power+ Savings event is still going, with tons of ongoing deals across an array of the brand’s electric lawn care equipment and tools. One notable inclusion that deserves some spotlight time is the brand’s 56V 765 CFM Cordless Leaf Blower that comes with a 5.0Ah and 2.5Ah batteries for $329.99 shipped. This bundle would normally cost you $509 in full, with more frequent discounts usually hitting its counterpart package with just the 5.0Ah battery that has gone as low as $293 at Amazon. Considering the 2.5Ah batteries usual $150 rate, scoring it here at just $37 more is quite the steal. Today’s deal has only been beaten in price once before in April 2023, when it last hit its $300 low.

Housing a brushless motor, this 56V leaf blower from EGO offers up to 90 minutes of averaged continuous runtime thanks to the 5.0Ah battery, with that rate bumped to 150 minutes with it at its low setting – and of course, the extra 2.5Ah battery offers extended times once swapped out. There is a variable speed control on this model for a 260 to 580 CFM range, while the turbo mode ramps that all the way up to its max 765 CFM (around 200 MPH air flow). Along with the device, batteries, and charger, you’ll also be getting a spread nozzle, a tapered nozzle, and a shoulder strap.

We’ve covered a lot of amazing deals from this sale, many of which are new and returning low prices. Be sure to check them out before the savings end:

govee smart electric composter

Turn food waste into nutrient-rich soil with Govee’s Smart Electric Composter at $305

Coming at us by way of its official Amazon storefront, Govee is offering its Smart Electric Composter for $304.99 shipped, after clipping the on-page $150 off coupon. Normally sitting up at a $500 price tag since hitting the market in October, it’s mostly been discounted to $350 in the time since, with occasional falls further to $300. Today’s deal is a 39% markdown that puts $195 in initial savings back in your pocket (plus the money you’ll save utilizing it in your life), dropping costs to the third-lowest price we have tracked – $5 under our previous mention a month ago and $55 above the all-time low that we haven’t seen since it first released.

If you’ve wanted to cut down on your food waste and/or recycle that waste to reuse as low-cost soil for your plants, you’ll want to consider adding this Smart Electric Composter to your home life. It keeps digital records of your usage so you can better track your wasteful habits, providing you with another means to save money when planning out meals.

It provides three different operating modes, complete with smart controls via the companion app and hands-free voice controls through Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri – with safety notifications even being sent to you should anything not be functioning properly. Of course, I’m sure you’re worried about smells that tend to permeate from the composting process, but this model has been given two interchangeable filters that prevent those odors from escaping and filling up your kitchen. You can find replacement filters at Amazon for $26 right now too.

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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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Solar executives warn that Trump attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices

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President Donald Trump‘s attack on solar and wind projects threatens to raise energy prices for consumers and undermine a stretched electric grid that’s already straining to meet rapidly growing demand, renewable energy executives warn.

Trump has long said wind power turbines are unattractive and endanger birds, and that solar installations take up too much land. This week, he said his administration will not approve solar and wind projects, the latest salvo in a campaign the president has waged against the renewable energy industry since taking office.

“We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,” Trump posted on Truth Social Wednesday. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!”

Trump’s statement this week seemed to confirm industry fears that the Interior Department will block federal permits for solar and wind projects. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum took control of all permit approvals last month in a move that the American Clean Power Association criticized as “obstruction,” calling it “unprecedented political review.”

The Interior Department blocking permits would slow the growth of the entire solar and wind industry, top executives at renewable developers Arevon, Avantus and Engie North America told CNBC.

Even solar and wind projects on private land may need approvals from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service if, for example, a waterway or animal species is affected, the executives told CNBC. The three power companies are among the top 10 renewable developers in the U.S., according to energy research firm Enverus.

The Interior Department “will not give preferential treatment to massive, unreliable projects that make no sense for the American people or that risk harming communities or the environment,” a spokesperson told CNBC when asked if new permits would be issued for solar and wind construction.

Choking off renewables will worsen a looming power supply shortage, harm the electric grid and lead to higher electricity prices for consumers, said Kevin Smith, CEO of Arevon, a solar and battery storage developer headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, that’s active in 17 states. Arevon operates five gigawatts of power equivalent to $10 billion of capital investment.

“I don’t think everybody realizes how big the crunch is going to be,” Smith said. “We’re making that crunch more and more difficult with these policy changes.”

Uncertainty hits investment

The red tape at the Interior Department and rising costs from Trump’s copper and steel tariffs have created market instability that makes planning difficult, the renewable executives said.

“We don’t want to sign contracts until we know what the playing field is,” said Cliff Graham, CEO of Avantus, a solar and battery storage developer headquartered in San Diego. Avantus has built three gigawatts of solar and storage across the desert Southwest.

“I can do whatever you want me to do and have a viable business, I just need the rules set and in place,” Graham said.

Engie North America, the U.S. arm of a global energy company based in Paris, is slashing its planned investment in the U.S. by 50% due to tariffs and regulatory uncertainty, said David Carroll, the chief renewables officer who leads the American subsidiary. Engie could cut its plans even more, he said.

Engie’s North American subsidiary, headquartered in Houston, will operate about 11 gigawatts of solar, battery storage and wind power by year end.

Multinationals like Engie have long viewed the U.S. as one of the most stable business environments in the world, Carroll said. But that assessment is changing in Engie’s boardroom and across the industry, he said.

“The stability of the U.S. business market is no longer really the gold standard,” Carroll said.

Rising costs

Arevon is seeing costs for solar and battery storage projects increase by as much as 30% due to the metal tariffs, said Smith, the CEO. Many renewable developers are renegotiating power prices with utilities to cover the sudden spike in costs because projects no longer pencil out financially, he said.

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act ends two key tax credits for solar and wind projects in late 2027, making conditions even more challenging. The investment tax credit supported new renewable construction and the production credit boosted clean electricity generation.

Those tax credits were just passed on to consumers, Smith said. Their termination and the rising costs from tariffs will mean higher utility bills for families and businesses, he said.

The price that Avantus charges for solar power has roughly doubled to $60 per megawatt-hour as interest rates and tariffs have increased over the years, said CEO Graham. Prices will surge again to around $100 per megawatt-hour when the tax credits are gone, he said.

“The small manufacturers, small companies and mom and pops will see their electric bills go up, and it’ll start pushing the small entrepreneurs out of the industry or out of the marketplace,” Graham said.

Renewable projects that start construction by next July, a year after the One Big Beautiful Act became law, will still qualify for the tax credits. Arevon, Avantus and Engie are moving forward with projects currently under construction, but the outlook is less certain for projects later in the decade.

The U.S. will see a big downturn in new renewable power generation starting in the second half of 2026 through 2028 as new projects no longer qualify for tax credits, said Smith, the head of Arevon.

“The small- and medium-sized players that can’t take the financial risk, some of them will disappear,” Smith said. “You’re going to see less projects built in the sector.”

Artificial intelligence power crunch

Fewer renewable power plants could increase the risk of brownouts or blackouts, Smith said. Electricity demand is surging from the data centers that technology companies are building to train artificial intelligence systems. PJM Interconnection, the largest electrical grid in the U.S. that coordinates wholesale electricity in 13 states and the District of Columbia, has warned of tight power supplies because too little new generation is coming online.

Renewables are the power source that can most quickly meet demand, Smith at Arevon said. More than 90% of the power waiting to connect to the grid is solar, battery storage or wind, according to data from Enverus.

“The power requirement is largely going to be coming from the new energy sector or not at all,” so without it, “the grid becomes substantially hampered,” Smith said.

Trump is prioritizing oil, gas and nuclear power as “the most effective and reliable tools to power our country,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said.

“President Trump serves the American people who voted to implement his America First energy agenda – not solar and wind executives who are sad that Biden’s Green New Scam subsidies are ending,” Kelly said.

But new natural gas plants won’t come online for another five years due to supply issues, new nuclear power is a decade away and no new coal plants are on the drawing board.

Utilities may have to turn away data centers at some point because there isn’t enough surplus power to run them, and no one wants to risk blackouts at hospitals, schools and homes, Arevon’s Smith said. This would pressure the U.S. in its race against China to master AI, a Trump administration priority.

“The panic in the data center, AI world is probably not going to set in for another 12 months or so, when they start realizing that they can’t get the power they need in some of these areas where they’re planning to build data centers,” Smith said.

“Then we’ll see what happens,” said the University of Chicago MBA, who’s worked in the energy industry for 35 years. “There may be a reversal in policy to try and build whatever we can and get power onto the grid.”

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Tesla offered many Cybertruck trade-ins above purchase price in apparent glitch

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Over the weekend, Tesla began offering many Cybertruck trade-in estimated values above the original purchase price, apparently due to a glitch in its system.

Tesla offers online trade-in estimates for individuals considering purchasing a vehicle from them.

Over the last few days, Cybertruck owners who submitted their vehicles through the system were surprised to see Tesla offering extremely high valuations on the vehicle, often above what they originally paid for the electric truck.

Here are a few examples:

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  • $79,200 for a 2025 Cybertruck AWD with 18,000 miles. Since this is a 2025 model year, it was eligible for the tax credit and Tesla is offering the same price as new without incentive.
  • Here Tesla offered $118,800 for a 2024 Cybertruck ‘Cyberbeast’ tri-motor with 21,000 miles.
  • In this example, Tesla offers $11,000 more than the owner originally paid for a 2024 Cybertruck.

The trade-in estimates made no sense. Tesla has been known to offer more attractive estimates online and then come lower with the official final offer, but this is on a whole different level.

Some speculated that Tesla’s trade-in estimate system was malfunctioning, while others thought Tesla was indirectly recalling early Cybertrucks.

It appears to be the former.

Some Tesla Cybertruck owners who tried to go through a new order with their Cybertruck as a trade-in were told by Tesla advisors that the system was “glitching” and they would not be honoring those prices.

Tesla told buyers that it would be refunding its usually “non-refundable” order fee.

Electrek’s Take

That’s a weird glitch. I assume that it was trying to change how the trade-in value would be estimated and the new math didn’t work for the Cybertruck for whatever reason.

It’s the only thing that makes sense to me.

The Cybertruck’s value is already quite weird due to the fact that Tesla still has new vehicles made in 2024, which are not eligible for the tax credit incentive, while the new ones made in 2025 are eligible.

There’s also the Foundation Series, which bundles many features for a $20,000 higher price.

All these things affect the value and can make it hard to compare with new Cybertrucks offered with 0% interest.

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At $28,000 off, is the Jeep Wagoneer S the best EV deal going? [update]

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At $28,000 off, is the Jeep Wagoneer S the best EV deal going? [update]

Deep discounts hit Jeep’s flagship EV as Stellantis struggles with demand

Like a 90s “gifted” kid that was supposed to be a lot of things, the electric Jeep Wagoneer S never really found its place — but when dealers started discounting the Jeep brands forward-looking flagship by nearly $25,000 back in June, I wrote that it might be time to give the go-fast Wagoneer S a second look.

This month, the discounts are even better.

UPDATE 23AUG25: I found you some even better EV deals!

Whether we’re talking about Mercedes-Benz, Cerberus, Fiat, or even Enzo Ferrari, outsiders have labeled Jeep as a potentially premium brand that could, “if managed properly,” command luxury-level prices all over the globe. That hasn’t happened, and Stellantis is just the latest in a long line of companies to sink massive capital into the brand only to realize that people will not, in fact, spend Mercedes money on a Jeep.

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That said, the Jeep Wagoneer S is not a bad car (and neither is its totally different, hideously massive, ICE-powered Wagoneer sibling, frankly). Built on the same Stellantis STLA Large vehicle platform that underpins the sporty Charger Daytona EVs, the confusingly-named Wagoneer S packs dual electric motors putting out almost 600 hp. That’s good enough to scoot the ‘ute 0 to 60 mph in a stomach-turning 3.5 seconds and enough, on paper, to convince Stellantis executives that they had developed a real, market-ready alternative to the Tesla Model Y.

With the wrong name and a sky-high starting price of $66,995 (not including the $1,795 destination fee), however, that demand didn’t materialize, leaving the Wagoneer S languishing on dealer lots across the country.

That could be about to change, however, thanks to big discounts on Wagoneer S being reported at CDJR dealers in several states:

  • Jeff Belzer’s in Minnesota has a 2025 Wagoneer S Limited with a $67,790 MSRP for $39,758 ($28,032 off)
  • Troncalli CDJR in Georgia has a 2025 Wagoneer S Limited with a $67,590 MSRP for $42,697 ($24,893 off)
  • Whitewater CDJR in Minnesota has a 2025 Wagoneer S Limited with a $67,790 MSRP for $43,846 ($23,944 off)
  • Antioch CDJR in Illinois has a 2025 Wagoneer S Limited with a $67,790 MSRP for $44,540 ($23,250 off)

“Stellantis bet big on electric versions of iconic American brands like Jeep and Dodge, but consumers aren’t buying the premise,” writes CDG’s Marcus Amick. “(Stellantis’ dealer body) is now stuck with expensive EVs that need huge discounts to move, eating into already thin margins while competitors focus on [more] profitable gas-powered vehicles.”

All of which is to say: if you’ve found yourself drawn to the Jeep Wagoneer S, but couldn’t quite stomach the $70,000+ window stickers, you might want to check in with your local Jeep dealer and see how you feel about it at a JCPenneys-like 30% off!

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