Anker’s new eufy E15 and E18 robot mowers with pure vision FSD navigation now $300 off with free gift starting from $1,500
Coming from Anker’s official sub-brand, eufy, we’re seeing increased savings alongside a free ambient lighting gift when purchasing either the new E15 Robot Lawn Mower at $1,499.99 shipped or the E18 Robot Lawn Mowerat $1,699.99 shipped, after removing the $200 off code and using the promo code RTLM200 at checkout for $300 off on both models. Regularly $1,800 and $2,000 each, this is $300 off the new post-tariff price hikes and matching the best we have tracked since launch deals, with things beating out the $200 discount we’re seeing at Amazon. On top of the cash savings, you’ll also receive a free eufy Indoor Floor Lamp ($100 value) along with your purchase.
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These are the latest and most advanced eufy robot mowers, trading in the reliance on boundary wires and RTK stations in favor of pure vision FSD tech with high-precision cameras and advanced AI that guides it around every inch of your yard, with the E15 model tackling up to 0.2 acres on a single charge and the E18 model going longer for up to 0.3 acres. According to the brand, you’ll only have a “5-minute setup” after taking it out of the box, which is done through its companion app, which also provides a full array of smart controls afterwards, letting you adjust settings, monitor its progress, and manage multi-zone areas via the 3D maps that it generates as works throughout your yard.
The 3D perception system on eufy’s E15 & E18 robot mowers detects and avoids collisions with everyday obstacles that it may come across, even in complex garden environments, while the smart coverage detection “guarantees no area is left uncut.” Those with pets or regular wildlife running around can also rest assured, as its systems will ensure their safety while in operation. You’ll be able to set its cutting height between 25mm to 75mm, with it operating at a quieter 56dB level and able to handle up to 40% inclines without concern. Beyond the controls you’ll have through your smartphone, the robot can also detect rainfall and/or when the sun sets, activating its automatic station return function. On top of that, there’s even the security system that activates an alarm when removed from its set work area while providing you with GPS tracking to hunt it down.
Score $400 off EVOLV’s 50-mile trekking PRO-R V2 e-scooter with dual 1,400W motors at $2,099
EVOLV is currently offering three of its e-scooters at up to $400 off, with the largest discount being on the Pro-R V2 Electric Scooter that is down at $2,099 shipped, after using the on-page promo code for $400 off. The promo code is bringing the costs down from its usual $2,499 tag, which we last saw included in the brand’s Spring Sale back in March. Sadly, the Pro V2 counterpart is sold out, but you can pick up this upgraded variant with the biggest price cut we have seen at the lowest price we have tracked.
EVOLV’s PRO-R V2 electric scooter comes as the upgraded model to the PRO V2, providing far more power for greater incline tackling and traveling times. It’s been equipped with dual 1,400W motors that peak at 3,600W, as well as a 60V 25Ah battery, delivering 44 MPH top speeds for up to 50 miles on a single charge.
Along with its monstrous performance specs, you’ll also have a heightened riding experience thanks to it coming stocked with front and rear spring suspension, front and rear hydraulic disc brakes, a front fender light, a taillight, running lights under its deck, turn signal lights, an IP54 water-resistance rating, and a smart center display – all with a foldable design for easy storage and transport when not in use.
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Anker extends Memorial Day pricing with up to 55% continued discounts on power stations from $120
Among the larger backup solutions from Anker and a solid mid-tier option to keep devices and appliances going while out of the house or at home during emergency blackouts, the SOLIX F2000 power station carries a 2,048Wh LiFePO4 capacity that can be expanded to 4,096Wh with an expansion battery (bundle options below). It dishes out steady power at up to 2,400W and is capable of surging as high as 3,600W for larger needs. There are 12 output ports to cover your needs, with one even being a TT-30 port for RV connections.
You can regain 80% of its battery in 1.4 hours by plugging it into a standard wall outlet, with it also boasting a 1,000W max solar input that would yield the same amount in 2.5 hours. There’s also the option to connect it to your car’s auxiliary port, as well as the usual array of smart controls available through its companion app.
Aventon’s extended Memorial Day savings take up to $400 off legacy e-bikes starting from $1,399
Aventon has extended its Memorial Day savings for a while longer, taking up to $400 off its legacy e-bikes in order to make room for its massive lineup of new smart e-bikes. Among the ongoing discounts, we wanted to focus on the previous flagship model, the Level 2 Commuter e-bike that is down at $1,599 shipped. This EV carries an $1,899 price tag when not benefitting from price cuts, which we’ve mostly seen being kept down at $1,699 and $1,599 during sales, though we have seen it as low as $1,299 in the past, which was last seen in a Best Buy one-day-sale back in March 2024. Grabbing this model while the savings lasts scores you $300 off the tag, giving you the third-lowest price we have tracked and also matching with its Black Friday and Christmas pricing. Head below for more on this e-bike and its counterparts seeing discounts.
Aventon’s Level series of e-bikes carry the mantle of the brand’s flagship models, with the Level 2 Commuter here having passed that title off to the new smart generation Level 3, but still provides some reliable mobility support through your daily travels. The sleek and streamlined frame arrives equipped with a 500W rear hub motor (peaking at 750W) and pairs with the integrated 14.0Ah battery in order to reach speeds as high as 28 MPH for up to 60 miles of travel on a single charge. The throttle can only get you up to 20 MPH, while activating the five PAS levels provides access to the faster 28 MPH speeds, as well as the 60-mile travel distance – all supported by a torque sensor too.
It comes with other solid features for the price, like the smoother rides you’ll get with the front suspension fork or the added safety when cruising alongside other vehicles, thanks to the taillights offering brake lighting. There’s also the integrated headlight, Shimano 8-speed derailleur, fenders over both tires, and the rear-mounted cargo rack, and the backlit LCD screen for real-time data and setting adjustments.
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.
Electric bikes are booming in popularity across the US, and cities are starting to take notice. From famous programs like those in Denver to smaller initiatives around the country, local governments are rolling out rebate and incentive programs to make e-bikes more affordable, especially for lower-income residents. The goal? Get more people out of cars and onto two wheels.
E-bike incentives vary widely by city and state, but the overall trend is clear: public officials increasingly see e-bikes as a low-cost, low-emission transportation solution that checks a lot of boxes. E-bikes are cheaper than cars, don’t require gas, and are far more accessible than public transit in many neighborhoods. And with the ability to flatten hills and shrink long commutes, they’re attracting a much broader audience than traditional bikes.
Programs like Denver’s wildly popular e-bike rebate initiative have shown how effective these incentives can be. The city offers over $1,00 off an e-bike purchase depending on income level, and the demand has been enormous. Rhode Island recently launched its own statewide rebate program offering up to $750, and cities like Ann Arbor, Oakland, Providence, and dozens of others are following suit with their own variations. A Bend, Oregon program will offer free e-bikes to locals. Washington D.C. is piloting a rebate targeted at delivery workers, and even some utility companies, like Vermont’s Green Mountain Power, have gotten in on the action.
These programs especially benefit lower-income residents, who may rely on expensive or unreliable transportation options to get to work, school, or the grocery store. By offering higher rebates to income-qualified applicants, many programs aim to level the playing field and make car-free living more realistic.
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Of course, not every program has gone smoothly. California’s statewide e-bike incentive, much hyped before its launch, faced repeated delays and technical issues that left many applicants frustrated. While the program finally began distributing vouchers this year, the rollout highlights the challenges of scaling these efforts statewide without sufficient infrastructure or planning.
Still, the momentum is undeniable. As cities grapple with climate goals, traffic congestion, and rising transportation costs, e-bike rebates are a relatively cheap way to make a big impact. The biggest challenge now may be keeping up with demand.
Electrek’s Take:
This is one of those rare win-win policies: cleaner air, less traffic, more mobility for people who need it most – and it’s all powered by a single horsepower and some political will. Let’s hope even more cities plug into this trend.
Of course, funding is the biggest obstacle to keeping programs like these rolling. But with the benefits stacking up, from reduced road damage to improved air quality, hopefully the rewards outweigh the upfront cost.
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Tesla will use Samsung for as a supplier for its self-driving computer’s next-gen hardware in a $16.5 billion deal, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
But despite planning two generations ahead, the company still doesn’t have a solution to bring the promised full autonomy to hardware that it’s been promising that capability to since 2016.
Earlier today, Samsung announced a 22.8 trillion won ($16.5 billion) deal that would run through 2033. In that filing, Samsung did not name the customer, only that it is a “large global company”. Later, Bloomberg reported that the customer is Tesla, and Musk confirmed this on twitter. Then in his usual bravado, he stated that the deal is “likely much more than that.”
Samsung makes the chips for the self-driving computers in Tesla’s current vehicles, but the next generation will be made by TSMC, first in Taiwan and then later in Arizona. Then the next-next generation will be covered by this new Samsung deal.
The new deal is significant due to TSMC’s global dominance of chipmaking. Samsung has had significant unused capacity, so the Tesla deal is a big boost for the company’s chip foundry business.
Tesla has gone through several generations of chips, previous referred to as “HW,” standing for “hardware,” with a number indicating their generation. More recently, Tesla started referring to its chips with “AI” instead of “HW,” in order to incorporate the tech buzzword du jour.
Currently Tesla is on HW4/AI4, and TSMC will make HW5, then Samsung will make HW6 again.
These generations of hardware each get successively more capable, and can handle more data and thus theoretically become better at self-driving tasks.
Current Tesla HW4 vehicles cannot drive themselves, and are only capable of SAE level 2 operation, which requires an attentive driver behind the steering wheel (though Tesla’s solution does work better than most others). Tesla’s ‘Robotaxi’ system is currently operating in Austin without anyone in the driver’s seat, but has a “safety rider” who can take control of the vehicle, blurring the line somewhat on which SAE level it is operating at.
But what about HW3?
There’s a problem with the differentiation between these generations of hardware: ever since 2016, when Tesla was on version 2 of its hardware, it has promised full self-driving capability on all of its vehicles.
Tesla stated, at the time, that every single Tesla vehicle produced after that date had the hardware that would allow for full self-driving.
It eventually became apparent that HW2 would not be capable of full self-driving tasks, and Tesla upgraded to HW3, promising all HW2 customers that they would get a free upgrade to HW3 if they bought Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system, which has varied in price over time but once cost $15,000.
Now, with the change from HW3 to HW4, we’re seeing indications of a similar run-around.
We’ve already seen differing FSD software versions based on which hardware level vehicles have, with HW3 vehicles getting updates later than HW4 vehicles do. On last week’s Q2 earnings call, Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja said:
What we want to do is get unsupervised done on hardware four first. Once it’s done, then we’ll go back and look at what we need to do with the hardware three cars. Like I said, the focus is first to get unsupervised out and then we’ll go back and see what more work we need to do.
“Unsupervised” is Tesla’s new name for actual full self-driving, which would allow a vehicle to drive without the supervision of someone in the driver’s seat. This as opposed to “supervised FSD,” a phrase Tesla started using after about a decade of promising full self-driving without delivering it.
Here, Taneja said that HW3 cars will eventually get FSD, but Tesla hasn’t really figured out the path to that, and it’s focusing on new cars first, then will go back around to see what needs to happen.
Previously, Musk had stated that Tesla “will have to upgrade people’s hardware 3 computer,” but more recently it has become apparent that Tesla really doesn’t have a plan for that upgrade. And Taneja’s comments suggest that Tesla will still try to wedge FSD onto HW3, despite previously admitting that the system is not capable of it.
The existence of future HW5 and even HW6 chips also suggest that current systems are not capable of full self-driving. If HW4 is FSD-capable, then why would Tesla need two more generations of chip in the next two years in order to do the tasks that it promised all of its cars could do a full decade prior?
So, much more than having no solution for HW3 cars (or even HW2 cars, some of which have gotten free upgrades, but others who have been charged $1,000 to upgrade to a computer they already paid for), does this mean that Tesla is going to kick the can further down the road, and eventually have no solution for HW4 and HW5 either?
And, when will we know about these solutions? Tesla has sold millions of vehicles with the promise of self-driving which will seemingly need an upgrade at some point. And many of those vehicles are old enough, at this point, to be retired, despite spending up to $15,000 on a piece of software that has never been delivered to them.
An HW6/AI6 computer will surely have all sorts of new whizbang capabilities, but we were promised those capabilities years ago, and they’re still not delivered yet.
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Mark Kay’s iconic Pink Cadillac awards are driving into the future for 2025. The company’s first-ever electric Pink Cadillac OPTIQ made its debut during the Mary Kay annual Seminar in Charlotte this weekend, symbolizing a “recharged vision” for the future of the popular brand.
Pioneers in monetizing friendships female empowerment and entrepreneurship, the Pink Cadillac is considered one the most coveted symbols of achievement for Mary Kay sales reps, signifying not just great sales (GM Authorityreported that it took ~$102,000 in annual sales to qualify back in 2001), but also leadership, a history of mentoring others, and a sustained reputation of excellence among their peers.
The women you see behind the wheel of the Pink Cadillac are the real deal, in other words, and the big Caddy really does mean something to people in the know.
The iconic pink Cadillac was born in 1968 when Mary Kay Ash purchased a Cadillac Coupe De Ville from a Dallas dealership and promptly had it painted to match the pale pink Mary Kay lip and eye palette. General Motors later named the color Mary Kay Pink Pearl, and the shade is exclusive to Mary Kay.
“For decades, the Mary Kay pink Cadillac has symbolized accomplishment, aspiration, and the power of recognition,” said Ryan Rogers, Chief Executive Officer of Mary Kay. “With the introduction of the all-electric OPTIQ, we’re honoring that iconic legacy while driving into a transformative future—one grounded in our commitment to sustainability and dedication to inspiring and celebrating the achievements of our independent sales force for generations to come.”
Mary Kay announced its new Pink Cadillac with this video, below.
Same Legacy, New Energy
“The legacy continues with the new, all-electric (and still very pink) Cadillac Otiq [sic],” reads the official Mary Kay copy on YouTube. “The Optiq remains instantly recognizable with the pink pearl exterior, while modernizing with sleek, cutting-edge features. In addition, this vehicle showcases our commitment and dedication to sustainability by reducing our carbon footprint while continuing to inspire.”
Speaking of inspiration, I can’t hardly hear the words “Pink Cadillac” without thinking of the song. But, since “Bruce Springsteen” has become something of a trigger word for the MAGA snowflakes in the audience, I’ll post a different, but similarly great song about rose-tinted GM flagships from Dope Lemon. You can let me know what you think of it in the comments.
As ever, the Cadillac is not a “gift,” per se – but typically takes the form of a two year lease paid for by Mary Kay. No word yet on what the exact shape and form the OPTIQ deal will take.
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