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We’ve got another jam-packed day of Green Deals for you, headlined by a spotlight on the Anker SOLIX Mother’s Day Sale offers for the brand’s latest F3800 Plus Portable Power Station and its bundles that start from $3,199. Right behind it is Jackery’s latest Home Backup Sale that is taking up to 43% off units through the weekend, with offers like the Explorer 2000 v2 Solar Generator bundle that comes with a 500W panel for $1,499. We also spotted Greenworks’ latest 60V 17-inch Cordless Electric Lawn Mower dropping to a new $280 low, which comes with a 4.0Ah battery. Last and certainly not least, riding on the momentum of Rad Power’s launch of the refreshed RadRunner series, Best Buy is offering a one-day-only second chance to score the brand’s RadExpand 5 Folding e-bike at its $1,099 low. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s full Anker SOLIX Mother’s Day Sale lineup, the launch deals on EcoFlow’s WAVE 3 AC and GLACIER coolers, 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.

Save up to $5,394 on Anker’s new SOLIX F3800 Plus expandable LiFePO4 power station and bundles from $3,199

Looking back in on Anker’s ongoing Mother’s Day Sale running through May 11, we wanted to highlight the deals on the brand’s new SOLIX F3800 Plus Portable Power Station, many of which are continuing over from the previous Spring Sale while others are limited to flash savings through May 2. Starting with the standalone unit at $3,199 shipped, which brings costs down from its usual $4,799 tag, this is the same starting price we saw during both its launch and its extended Spring Sale offer, maintaining its position as the lowest price we have seen to date and also matching at Amazon. On top of the $1,600 in savings you’ll be keeping in your pocket, you’ll also be getting a bonus $150 in savings in the form of a free protective cover, with that same gift available to all other purchases of this model’s bundles and any Standard F3800 deals too.

Anker’s latest SOLIX F3800 Plus, like its standard counterpart, provides you with a 3,840Wh LiFePO4 capacity that you can invest in over time to expand up to 26,900Wh by adding up to six expansion batteries – plus, it is also compatible for pairing with its predecessor. Through its 15 port options it can deliver a steady stream of up to 6,000W of output, not only surging to 9,000W for larger appliance needs, but also being expandable up to 12,000W with two stations connected together, regardless of them being Plus or Standard models.

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Of course, there are a few key differences between the two. For starters, the F3800 Plus has been given an additional way to recharge its own battery, with it able to receive 6,000W of input from a gas generator while its solar input has been increased by 800W to a 3,200W maximum. Aside from those, a decision between the two models depends on how you’re powering up EVs and RVs. The Standard F3800 sports both a L14-30R and 14-50R output, while the F3800 Plus sports L14-30R and TT-30R ports.

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You can browse the entirety of Anker’s massive Mother’s Day Sale here, which includes the Standard F3800 deals – plus, there are other free gifts with select purchases.

Jackery Explorer 2000 v2 Portable Power Station

Keep essentials running with Jackery’s Explorer 2000 v2 solar generator bundle with 500W panel at $1,499 in latest sale

With Earth Day having passed, Jackery is still providing folks with some quality savings on eco-friendly backup power solutions in its latest Home Backup Sale through May 5, which is focused on models to keep your essential devices, appliances, and home running. Among the small collection of offers we’re seeing, one of the notable standout bundles is the brand’s newer Explorer 2000 v2 Portable Power Station that comes with a 500W solar panel for $1,499 shipped. A new package from Jackery, this bundle was previously offered at a lower rate only once, starting $100 lower and getting some short-term extra savings at the end of the brand’s Earth Day Sale that bumped a little more off the tag. You’re still looking at a solid $850 in savings during this sale, though, with it even coming in $100 under Amazon’s current pricing. This is the third-lowest price we have tracked overall.

Whether you’re planning to use it for outdoor work, DIY jobs, covering camping sites, or just want a reliable means to keep essentials running during emergencies and blackouts, Jackery’s Explorer 2000 v2 is quite the versatile choice with a 2,042Wh LiFePO4 battery and a 2,200W output through its seven ports (peaking to 4,400W). Thanks to Jackery’s honeycomb design paired alongside exclusive CBT tech, it comes in a much smaller and lighter form factor than you may expect, complete with 62 different forms of charging protections and a silent mode for when you plug it in while you sleep.

You’ll be able to get it back to an 80% battery capacity in around 66+ minutes when plugging it into a wall outlet, though if you’re rushing to meet last-minute plans, the supercharge feature gives you a full battery in 102+ minutes. You can even plug it into your car’s auxiliary port for a 24-hour charge, or invest in solar panels to utilize the sun’s rays to refill the battery.

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Greenworks 60V 17-inch Cordless Electric Push Lawn Mower

Greenworks’ latest budget-friendly 60V 17-inch cordless electric mower just hit a new $280 low

Amazon is now offering the Greenworks 60V 17-inch Cordless Push Lawn Mower with a 4.0Ah battery for $279.99 shipped, while also matching directly from the brand’s website. This newer model hit the market back during fall 2024 carrying a $400 tag, which has only seen two previous discounts in January and March that both dropped costs to $300. Today, those rates are being beaten out by $20 thanks to the 30% markdown we’re seeing, which saves you a total of $120 at a new all-time low price, making it quite a steal for homeowners looking to upgrade to an electric alternative while avoiding some of the higher rates we see on more premium models.

As mentioned, this 60V mower is a solid budget-friendly option from Greenworks, which comes with a 4.0Ah battery that provides a 40-minute runtime for smaller yards, though you can extend its performance with any additional 60V batteries that you have lying around. It sports a 17-inch lightweight deck for easier maneuverability and control that also happens to be rust-resistant, bolstering its durability. Equipped with a brushless motor, it features a six-position cutting height adjustment from 1.5 to 3.15 inches while also offering rear bagging and mulching functionality.

RadExpand 5 Folding e-bike

For the rest of the day you can score Rad Power’s RadExpand 5 folding e-bike back at a $1,099 low

As part of its Deals of the Day, and going right alongside the launch of Rad Power’s new RadRunner series of e-bikes this morning, Best Buy is now offering the RadExpand 5 Folding e-bike at $1,099 shipped. Coming down off its $1,599 price tag, we’ve only seen this same rate once before coming directly from the brand for a short while last month, with it otherwise discounted to $1,299 in sales since October. It’s currently beating out the price from Rad Power’s latest sale by $200, giving you a one-day-only chance to grab one at the lowest price we have tracked.

Rad Power’s RadExpand 5 e-bike is a space-saving model that is perfect for folks with more limited storage, or who want an easier time transporting it within car trunks, on RVs, and the like. It cruises into view sporting a combination of a 750W brushless geared hub motor alongside a 672Wh battery, delivering 20 MPH top speeds and up to 45+ miles of travel on a single charge with its four PAS levels engaged. You’ll also be able to ride on pure electric power thanks to the throttle, but do keep in mind that this shortens its travel distance.

Alongside its performance capabilities, some quality features make the ride better and lend some versatility to its uses, like the integrated rear cargo rack that allows you to haul up to 55 pounds, whether that’s packages, groceries, or other cargo. You’ll also be getting an LED headlight and integrated taillight, which both feature auto-on activation when light levels drop low enough. There’s also the 7-speed MicroShift derailleur, fenders over both fat tires, a water-resistant wiring harness, and an LED display.

You can check out the $300 discounts that Rad Power is offering in its latest sale here – which includes on the RadExpand 5 but also the RadWagon 4 Cargo e-bike too – plus, there’s the ongoing final stretch of low prices on the previous RadRunner series that is making way for the newly launched RadRunner series, which you can read about in our coverage 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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This Meta alum has spent 10 months leading OpenAI’s nationwide hunt for its Stargate data centers

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This Meta alum has spent 10 months leading OpenAI's nationwide hunt for its Stargate data centers

Keith Heyde stands on site in Abilene, Texas, where OpenAI’s Stargate infrastructure buildout is underway. Heyde, a former head of AI compute at Meta, is now leading OpenAI’s physical expansion push.

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It wasn’t how Keith Heyde envisioned celebrating the holidays. Rather than hanging out with his wife back home in Oregon, Heyde spent late December visiting potential data center sites across the U.S.

Two months earlier, Heyde left Meta to join OpenAI as the head of infrastructure. His job was to turn CEO Sam Altman’s ambitious compute dreams into reality, seeking out vast swaths of land suitable for expansive facilities that will eventually be packed with powerful graphics processing units for building large language models.

“My in-between Christmas and New Year’s last year was actually mostly spent looking at sites,” Heyde, 36, told CNBC in an interview. “So my family loved that, trust me.”

His life in 2025 has only gotten more intense.

Since January, OpenAI has been quietly soliciting and reviewing proposals from around 800 applicants hoping to host the next wave of its Stargate data centers, AI supercomputing hubs designed to train increasingly powerful models.

Roughly 20 sites are now in advanced stages of diligence, with massive tracts of land under review across the Southwest, Midwest and Southeast. Heyde said tax incentives are “a relatively small part of the decision matrix.”

The most important factors are access to power, ability to scale, and buy-in from local communities.

“Can we build quickly, is the power ramp there fast, and is this something where it makes sense from a community perspective?” he said.

Heyde leads site development within OpenAI’s industrial compute team, a division that’s swiftly become one of the most important groups inside the company. Infrastructure, once a supporting function, has now been elevated to a strategic pillar on par with product and model development.

With traditional data centers nearly at max capacity, OpenAI is betting that owning the next generation of physical infrastructure is central to controlling the future of AI.

Inside OpenAI's data center site search

The energy needs are hard to fathom. A gigawatt data center requires the amount of power needed for some entire cities. Late last month, OpenAI announced plans for a 17-gigawatt buildout in partnership with Oracle, Nvidia, and SoftBank.

New sites will have to include all sorts of energy options, including battery-backed solar installations, legacy gas turbine refurbishments and even small modular nuclear reactors, Heyde said. Each site looks different, but together they form the industrial backbone OpenAI needs to scale.

“We’ve done this wonderful piece of bottleneck analysis to see what types of energy sources actually allow us to unlock the journey that we want to be on,” Heyde said.

A good chunk of the capital is coming from Nvidia. The chipmaker agreed to invest up to $100 billion to fuel OpenAI’s expansion, which will involve purchasing millions of Nvidia’s GPUs.

‘Perfect wasn’t the goal’

Heyde, a former head of AI compute at Meta, helped oversee the buildout of Meta’s first 100,000 GPU cluster.

In addition to power, OpenAI is assessing how quickly it can build on a site, the availability of labor and proximity to supportive local governments, according to Stargate’s request for proposal.

Heyde said the team has made around 100 site visits and has a short list of sites in late-stage review. Some will be brand new builds, and others will require conversions and refurbishments of existing facilities. Flexibility will be key.

“The perfect parcels are largely taken,” Heyde said. “But we knew that perfect wasn’t the goal — the goal for us was, number one, a compelling power ramp.”

Competition is fierce.

Meta is building what may be the largest data center in the Western Hemisphere — a $10 billion project in Northeast Louisiana, fueled by billions in state incentives. CEO Mark Zuckerberg raised the top end of the company’s annual capital expenditure spending range to $72 billion in July.

The steel frame of data centers under construction during a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025.

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Amazon and Anthropic are teaming up on a 1,200-acre AI campus in Indiana. And across the country, states are rolling out tax breaks, power guarantees, and expedited zoning approvals to attract the next big AI cluster.

OpenAI is a relative upstart, having been around for just a decade and only known to the mainstream since launching ChatGPT less than three years ago. But it’s raised mounds of cash from the likes of Microsoft and SoftBank, in addition to Nvidia, on its way to a $500 billion valuation.

And OpenAI is showing it’s not afraid to lead the way in AI. A self-built solar campus in Abiliene, Texas, is already live.

While OpenAI still leans on partners like Oracle, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told CNBC last week in Abilene that owning first-party infrastructure provides a differentiated approach. It curbs vendor markups, safeguards key intellectual property, and follows the same strategic logic that once drove Amazon to build Amazon Web Services rather than rely on existing infrastructure.

However, Heyde indicated that there’s no real playbook when it comes to AI, particularly as companies pursue artificial general intelligence (AGI), or AI that can potentially meet or exceed human capabilities.

OpenAI's stealth site search drew more than 800 bids since January 2025

“It’s a very different order of magnitude when we think about the type of delivery that has to happen at those locations,” he said.

Some applicants, including former bitcoin mining operators, offered existing power infrastructure, like substations and modular buildouts, but Heyde said those don’t always fit.

“Sometimes we found that it’s almost nice to be the first interaction in a community,” he said. “It’s a very nice narrative that we’re bringing the data center and the infrastructure there on behalf of OpenAI.”

The 20 finalist sites represent phase one of a much larger buildout. OpenAI ultimately plans to scale from single-gigawatt projects to massive campuses.

“Any place or any site we’re moving forward with, we’ve really considered the viability and our own belief that we can deliver the power story and the infrastructure story associated with those sites,” Heyde said.

He understands why many people are skeptical.

“It’s hard. There’s no doubt about it,” Heyde said. “The numbers we’re talking about are very challenging, but it’s certainly possible.”

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Cadillac’s quiet coup: nearly HALF of all Caddies sold in Q3 were electric

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Cadillac's quiet coup: nearly HALF of all Caddies sold in Q3 were electric

Two in five Cadillacs sold since July were electric, propelling the brand to its best third quarter in over a decade.

There’s a quiet revolution underway in Cadillac showrooms across America. The brand’s renewed “Standard of the World” ambitions are now matched by sleek, statement-making electric vehicles. And, thanks to a little help from Federal tax credit FOMO, more than 40% of new Cadillacs sold in Q3 were 100% electric.

GM’s overall EV sales numbers were up 110% last quarter, climbing to 66,501 units in the US alone on the back of the affordable, 300+ mile Chevy Equinox and 1,000-mile capable (sort of) Silverado EV – but it was Cadillac dealers that saw the biggest growth in EV sales.

As buyers poured into Cadillac dealerships in the last days of the $7,500 Federal EV tax credit, GM’s luxury arm was ready with stylish, new-for-2025 electric vehicles like the Optiq, Vistiq, and Escalade IQ* waiting for them alongside the Lyriq. The result wasn’t just Cadillac’s best third quarter in more than a decade – Cadillac (and GM) is having one of its best sales year, period.

Here’s what the quarter looked like, by the recently-released GM sales numbers.

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EV MODEL   Q3 25/Q3 24   Q3 25 Q3 24  YTD 25/YTD 24   YTD 25 YTD 24
Chevrolet Equinox EV +156.70% 25,085 9,772 +389.88% 52,834 10,785
Chevrolet Blazer EV +1.14% 8,089 7,998 +36.72% 20,825 15,232
Chevrolet Silverado EV +97.49% 3,940 1,995 +78.58% 9,379 5,252
Chevrolet BrightDrop * 2,384 * * 3,976 0
GMC Hummer EV Pickup +21.86% 5,246 4,305 +48.65% 13,233 8,902
GMC Sierra EV +771.84% 3,374 387 +1,488.37% 6,147 387
Cadillac Optiq * 4,886 * * 9,826 0
Cadillac Lyriq +1.18% 7,309 7,224 -18.17% 16,626 20,318
Cadillac Vistiq * 3,924 * * 5,669 0
Cadillac Escalade IQ * 2,264 * * 6,030 0
Total +109.91% 66,501 31,681 +137.44% 144,545 60,876

Source: GM Authority / GM Q3 2025 sales report.

That asterisk up there next to the high-rolling Escalade IQ that sold more than 3,900 examples is because, at well over $80,000 even for the most basic model it never qualified for the $7,500 Federal EV tax credit to begin with (nor did the people destined to buy it, who almost certainly make too much to qualify).

It’ll be interesting to see if the loss of that tax credit will do much to negatively impact EV sales in Q4. And that’ll get doubly interesting thanks to the creative accounting team at GM that figured out how to extend that $7,500 tax credit for existing dealer inventory (for a few more months) and that its biggest EV rivals at Hyundai are slashing prices on popular IONIQ models.

You can check out our EIC Fred Lambert’s full review of the new electric Cadillac Escalade in the video, below, and use the following links to find great Cadillac deals near you while that cleverly extended tax credit is still a thing.

Cadillac Escalade IQ review

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Tesla product tease 10/7

Tesla is teasing the unveiling of a mysterious new product planned for Tuesday, October 7th this week.

The teaser is ambiguous, which is sparking speculation.

On Sunday, Tesla released a short teaser on X featuring a few seconds of what appears to be a wheel or a fan spinning and ending with the date “10/7”:

Due to the ambiguous nature of Tesla’s teaser, people are speculating as to what the automaker plans to unveil on Tuesday.

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Electrek’s Take

Of course, Tesla being an automaker, people would quickly think this is a wheel. However, due to the alignment and the lack of lugs, I doubt this is a wheel.

If it has to do with a wheel, it would make more sense for this to be a wheel cover.

A wheel cover could indicate that Tesla will unveil the new, stripped-down Model Y. Timing-wise, this makes the most sense, as we have been expecting Tesla to launch the cheaper Model Y early in Q4.

It could also be a fan. What Tesla product could have a fan?

Elon Musk has been discussing Tesla’s potential development of an HVAC system for a long time, but I haven’t seen significant evidence that Tesla has been actively working on it.

The next-gen Roadster? Maybe Tesla has put some fans for downforce? The timing of that could also make sense, as Musk has been promising a demo by the end of the year. However, we heard that one a few times before.

Several media outlets are reporting that Ferrari is set to unveil its first electric car this week, so Tesla may be looking to steal some of its shine.

What do you think Tesla is teasing here? Let us know in the comment section below.


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