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It’s the final day of the July Prime Day sale event, and we have another exciting collection of picks amongst the many eco-friendly deals we’ve spotted over the week, which you can find in our Prime Day Green Deals hub here, which will continue to regularly be updated through the weekend, so be sure to check back often – especially for any hangover savings. Leading our picks for today, we have Segway’s e-scooter deals that are seeing up to 46% discounts, including the ZT3 Pro All-Terrain Smart eKickScooter at a new $850 low. There’s also the massive $1,891 savings hitting EGO’s Z6 42-inch Zero-Turn Cordless Riding Lawn Mower that has the e-STEER upgrade and comes with four 12.0Ah batteries at a new $4,108 low, as well as Anker’s eufy SoloCam S220 Solar Security Camera (and multi-packs) that are starting from a new $62 low. All that and much more are waiting for you below.

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.

Segway e-scooters up to 46% off during Prime Day, with the ZT3 Pro all-terrain eKickScooter at a new $850 low

As part of its Prime Day event, and running alongside the second-ever post-launch Xafari and Xyber e-bike savings, Amazon is offering up to 43% off a large selection of Segway e-scooters to upgrade your commutes and joyrides. One notable standout is Segway’s newer ZT3 Pro All-Terrain eKickScooter dropping to $849.99 shipped. While it carries a $1,300 MSRP, this model has been keeping down at $1,000 lately at Amazon. Discounts have mostly kept costs above $950, though we have spotted some unexpected and short-lived falls to $920 and $915 in March and June, with those rates beaten only by the $900 preorder low from its September launch in 2024. Now, you’re getting a better opportunity than ever, with the $150 markdown ($450 off its MSRP) dropping things to a new all-time low rate.

Hopping aboard Segway’s ZT3 Pro eKickScooter brings smart functionality to your all-terrain adventures, including Apple Find My, proximity locking/unlocking, and more. The 597Wh battery pairs alongside a 1,600W brushless motor, giving it the power to tackle up to 25% inclines and maxing out at 24.9 MPH speeds. The battery also comes supported by the brand’s RideyLong tech, giving it a more advanced controller algorithm that extends travel times, with it offering up to 43.5 miles of range with only a four-hour charge. And that fast-charging action goes further, as you can get 6.2 miles in just 30 minutes for last-minute travel plans.

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The Segway ZT3 Pro eKickScooter comes designed with safety and comfort at the forefront, with plenty of features lending towards a smoother ride, including a full suspension frame, six inches of extra clearance off the ground, 11-inch tubeless tires, and a Segride stability enhancement system working alongside a traction control system. You can get an even deeper rundown in our launch coverage here.

If you want to see the full lineup of Segway’s eKickScooter deals during this sale, be sure to check out our original coverage here.

EGO Z6 riding lawn mower

Save $1,891 on EGO’s Z6 cordless riding mower with e-STEER wheel and four 12Ah batteries at a new $4,108 low

As part of its Prime Day sale event, Amazon is offering the best pricing ever on the EGO Power+ Z6 42-inch Cordless Electric Riding Lawn Mower with e-STEER wheel and four 12.0Ah batteries for $4,108.28 shipped. Usually fetching a full price of $5,999, this model has seen two longer-lasting periods down at $4,999 in 2025 so far, with those rates getting beaten by severe margins thanks to the sale here. You’re looking at a total $1,891 in savings, giving you an advanced mower with a significant bundle value at a new all-time low price.

If you want to learn more about this advanced mowing solution, be sure to check out our original coverage here.

Anker eufy SoloCam S220 solar security camera

Anker’s eufy SoloCam S220 keeps running with three hours of sunlight at new $62 Prime Day low

As part of the ongoing Prime Day Sale, Anker’s official eufy Amazon storefront is giving folks the best pricing ever on its SoloCam S220 Solar Security Camera for $61.74 shipped, which is beating out the brand’s direct website pricing by $3. Normally fetching a full price tag of $100, discounts over the year have mostly kept costs in 2025 down between $66 and $70, with some drops lower to $65. The deal we’re seeing here takes things lower than ever with a $38 markdown that lands the price at the lowest rate we have tracked. You’ll also find multi-packs available starting from $120 shipped for two, down from the usual $200 tag.

If you want to learn more about the solar-powered security device, be sure to check out our original coverage here.

hiboy S2 SE e-scooter

Hiboy’s Prime Day Sale takes up to 47% off EVs, dropping latest S2 SE e-scooter to new $294 low, more

Hiboy’s Prime Day Sale is in full swing through July 13, with up to 47% discounts hitting its lineup of EVs, including extra savings on select models. One of its newer commuters seeing the best pricing to date here is the S2 SE Electric Scooter at $294.38 shipped, after using the promo code 95H8A at checkout for an additional 8% off the price. It hit the market back at the top of the year with a $550 full price tag, sales repeatedly taking the costs down to $300 at their lowest in the time since. You’ll be getting a larger price cut than ever thanks to the extra savings, cutting $256 from the tag at a new all-time low and beating its Amazon pricing by $36. Head below for more on this and the other models seeing discounts.

If you want to learn more about this e-scooter or any of the others that are seeing notable discounts during this sale, be sure to check out our original coverage here.

ecoflow river 2 max portable power station

Get up to 50% Prime Day savings on these EcoFlow Amazon-only deals like the RIVER 2 Max 500 station at $279 annual low

As part of its ongoing Prime Day Sale that runs through July 11, EcoFlow has several Amazon-only deals available via its official marketplace storefront, with a notable standout being the RIVER 2 Max 500 Portable Power Station for $279 shipped. Carrying a $449 MSRP direct from the brand, but more often than not keeping down at $399 at Amazon, we’ve seen discounts in 2025 regularly taking things down to $299, as well as the occasional fall lower to $279. That annual low is coming back around here, giving you $120+ savings at the second-lowest price we have tracked – just $1 above the low we last saw during early Christmas sales.

If you want to learn more about this power station’s capabilities or browse the entire list of EcoFlow’s Amazon-only discounts, be sure to check out our original coverage here.

Gain remote smart controls over your sprinkler with Eve’s Aqua water controller at $95 for Prime Day

As part of its Prime Day savings event, Amazon is offering the best price of the year on the Eve Aqua Smart Water Controller for $94.90 shipped, after clipping the on-page $50 off coupon. This device normally goes for $149 at full price, with discounts usually only dropping costs as low as $100, though we’ve seen it go as low as $80 in the past. Now, during this event, you can get a 36% markdown off the going rate, saving you $54 at the best price of the year while upgrading your water supply with smarter functionality.

If you want to learn more about this smart device, be sure to check out our original coverage here.

vanpowers city vanture e-bike

Hop on Vanpowers’ 34-pound City Vanture urban e-bike for up to 50 miles of commuting at $799 (Reg. $1,749)

Vanpowers is offering a special promotional discount through the rest of the month on its City Vanture Urban Commuter e-bike for $799 shipped, after using the code AFF300 at checkout for an additional $300 in savings. This model usually goes for $1,749 at full price in our post-tariff market, with discounts in the new year having kept prices above $1,099. Aside from the $629 low we secured as part of an exclusive Wellbots deal back in January, you’re otherwise looking at the best price of the year and the first time it’s dropped under $1,000 in 2025. You’ll be getting a combined 54% markdown with this deal, saving you $950 at the lowest price we’ve seen coming direct from the brand.

If you want to learn more about this e-bike, be sure to check out our original coverage here.

You can get a Worx 3-in-1 trimmer/edger/mower for just $100 during Prime Day (Best price of the year)

As part of the Prime Day Sale, Amazon is offering the Worx GT Revolution 20V 12-inch 3-in-1 Cordless String Trimmer/Edger/Mini Mower with two 2.0Ah batteries at $99.99 shipped. This particular package would cost you $140 if at full price, with discounts in 2025 only having gone as low as $109, unlike its other counterpart bundles that often include one battery and replacement spools. While it has gone as low as $90 in the past, those rates haven’t been seen anytime recently. You’re looking at a 29% markdown that saves you $40 and lets you get a handy 3-in-1 tool at the best price we have tracked this year.

If you want to learn more about this 3-in-1 lawncare solution, be sure to check out our original coverage here.

Best Summer EV deals!

Best new Green Deals landing this week

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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Honda’s super low-cost electric motorcycle revealed in new patent images

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Honda's super low-cost electric motorcycle revealed in new patent images

Honda’s patent filings offer a clear glimpse into the company’s plans for an ultra-affordable electric motorcycle, integrating a proven chassis with a simple electric powertrain. It’s a clear glimpse into how the world’s most prolific motorcycle maker plans to challenge the nascent electric motorcycle market.

The filings in Honda’s new patent show a bike built around the familiar platform of the Honda Shine 100, a best-selling commuter in India, reimagined in electric form for a cost-effective future of urban mobility.

According to Cycle World’s Ben Purvis, Honda’s patent sketches outline a design that repurposes the Shine’s sturdy frame and chassis mounting points to house an electric motor and compact battery setup. Positioned where the engine once sat, a mid-motor drives the rear wheel via a single-speed reduction gear and chain – mirroring the essentials of the original gasoline-powered commuter bike.

Instead of a traditional fuel tank, the design features two lithium-ion battery packs, angled forward on either side of the spine frame and fitting neatly into the existing geometry.

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What makes the bike revealed in this patent even more interesting isn’t just its clever packaging, but rather the platform. By leveraging the proven Shine chassis, Honda can significantly cut development costs, manufacturing complexity, and market price. That’s a big statement given that surviving in price-sensitive markets like India demands simplicity and reliability. And by piggybacking off a proven platform, Honda can dramatically reduce the time to market from the time the boardroom bigwigs give the project the final green light.

Honda’s patent images show an electric motorcycle built on the same platform as the Honda Shine 100

The design still seems to feature styling that would be fairly consistent with the Shine 100, even down to a gas cap-like circular protrusion likely on top of a faux-tank. Some electric motorcycles in the past have used this location to hide a charging port, keeping similar form and function to outdated fuel tanks and fill ports, though it’s not clear if that is Honda’s intention.

It’s not clear what power level Honda could be targeting, but the Shine bike from which Honda’s creation draws its design inspiration could provide some clues. The Honda Shine 100 features a 99cc engine that provides around 7.3 horsepower (around 5.5 kW) and has a top speed of 85 km/h (53 mph), solidly planting it in the commuter segment of motorcycles.

The electric motorcycle in Honda’s design would be unlikely to target much higher performance as it would drastically increase the required battery capacity, and thus similar speeds of around 80-85 km/h (50-53 mph) would seem likely.

There also appears to be no active cooling, which would also limit the amount of power that Honda would be likely to draw continuously. The patent describes a channel formed by the two battery packs, leading to the speed controller and creating ducted cooling that pulls heat out of the batteries and electronics without drawing extra power.

Honda hasn’t released a final design, but I ask AI to create one based on the patent images. I’d ride that!

This emerging design is just one piece of Honda’s broader electric two-wheeler strategy. Their entry-level EM1 e: and Activa e: scooters launched with mobile battery packs and budget-friendly pricing. Meanwhile, high-tech concepts continually push the envelope. But this Shine-based bike aims squarely at the heart of mainstream affordability – a move likely to resonate with millions of new electric riders in developing regions like India where traditionally-styled small-dsiplacement motorcycles reign supreme.

Honda hasn’t revealed a timeline or pricing yet, but Honda’s patents offer real hope to fans of the brand’s electric efforts. If scaled effectively, this could be the first truly mass-market electric motorcycle from a major OEM, with a sticker price likely far below the $5,000 mark usually seen as a floor for commuter electric motorcycles from major manufacturers. That would also dramatically undercut models from brands like Zero or Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire, even as those brands rush to bring their own lower-cost models to market.

Electrek’s Take

Honda’s patent reveals a clever, no-frills EV designed to democratize electric two-wheeling, especially in developing markets that are even more price-sensitive than Western electric motorcycle customers.

Using a trusted frame, simple electric drive, and passive cooling, I’d say it definitely prioritizes cost over complexity, which is exactly what urban commuters need. If Honda can bring this to market, it would not just add another electric bike to the mix… it could create a new baseline for affordability in affordable electric mobility. Now we’re just waiting for the rubber to hit the road!

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Musk will ask Tesla shareholders to vote on bailout for twitter/xAI

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Tesla shareholders will vote on whether to invest into xAI, Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s private company, according to a post by Musk on twitter today.

Elon Musk is not just the CEO of Tesla, the electric car company that you may have heard about from time to time in Electrek’s coverage, but several other companies as well. And, famously, Musk companies often share resources – there has been much talk of incorporating SpaceX technology into Tesla vehicles, and putting xAI/twitter’s “MechaHitler”…. er, I mean, “Grok”…. feature into Tesla cars, among other collaborations that have happened over his various companies’ histories.

And today, Musk made it official that he will seek greater collaboration between three of his companies: Tesla, xAI, and twitter, in the form of an investment into xAI by Tesla.

The situation is a little more complicated than that, though.

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Tesla is a public company, owned by shareholders. Musk is the largest shareholder, but only owns around 12% of the company himself.

This is a different situation than xAI, which is a private company, owned by Musk. While there are other investors, he can exercise much more direct control over the company, and doesn’t have to put big decisions up to a vote.

One of the recent decisions he made with xAI was to purchase twitter in March. You may say, “wait, I thought he bought twitter back in 2022?,” and you’d be correct. Musk purchased twitter for $44 billion in 2022, which was widely agreed to be far too high a price, and then rapidly saw the company’s valuation drop to under $10 billion.

Then, in March 2025, Musk had xAI purchase twitter in an all-stock deal, valuing twitter company at $45 billion – again, far too high of a valuation, but considering he purchased the company from himself, he could set the price at whatever he wanted.

The move was widely considered to be a bailout of twitter, and the numbers involved considered arbitrary, perhaps partially to help save face for Musk after he made one of the worst business deals of all time.

Now the two are the same entity, and it seems clear that he would like to bring Tesla into the fold, in some way or another.

Musk has already improperly used resources from Tesla, a public company, to boost xAI and twitter, his private companies. Last year, he gave up Tesla’s priority position for highly sought-after NVIDIA H100 GPUs, instead shipping those GPUs to xAI and twitter. Tesla could have used these GPUs for training its FSD/Robotaxi systems, which Musk has claimed is the most important thing to Tesla’s future, but instead graciously sent them to his other company that used them to, uh, train a bot to say Nazi stuff apparently.

xAI has also poached talent from Tesla, multiple times, showing how Musk is using Tesla as a farm team for his private company.

So it hasn’t been a secret that Musk would like to use public money to bail out his private companies, as he’s been setting the stage for for a while now.

Musk has previously “discussed” getting Tesla to invest in xAI in the past, but the idea was never made official until today, when Musk said that he will put the idea to a shareholder vote.

In response to one of his superfans asking for the the opportunity to waste money on an overvalued social media app (which would mark the third time it has been overpaid for in as many years), and the backend fueling “MechaHitler,” Musk said this:

Tesla traditionally holds its annual shareholder meeting around the middle of the year, so if it were a normal year, this shareholder vote might be imminent.

But it’s not a normal year, as just last week Tesla announced an exceptionally late shareholder meeting, pushing it back to November, the latest it has ever held the meeting.

This means that Musk will have around four months to campaign for this idea – something that he’ll perhaps have more time to do, now that he’s no longer cosplaying as a government official.

We don’t know what the structure of the deal might look like yet, but Musk has been clear in the past that he wants more shares in Tesla. After selling many of his shares in order to buy twitter, he later complained that he doesn’t feel comfortable having less than 25% of Tesla. Given that his recent xAI/twitter deal was an all-stock deal, Musk could attempt to fund any investment of Tesla into xAI via shares, giving himself more Tesla shares in exchange for the company gaining a portion of xAI. Though to get him to 25% voting shares in Tesla, that would require either an enormous valuation for xAI, a small valuation for Tesla, or purchasing a large percentage of xAI (or, perhaps, all three, given how much higher TSLA’s valuation is than xAI’s).

We may however have a hint as to how that vote will go, because the last time Musk campaigned for a clearly terrible idea, Tesla shareholders ate it up.

In mid-2024, Musk ended his yearslong absenteeism at Tesla in a flurry of activity, hoping to persuade enough shareholders to vote for his illegal $55B pay package.

That flurry involved firing 10% of the company (supposedly in order to save money – though Tesla’s earnings have dropped drastically since), including important leadership and successful teams, which caused chaos with Tesla’s projects. He also pushed back an all-important affordable car project (which we’ve still heard nothing about) and held Tesla’s AI projects hostage while shifting both resources and staff from Tesla to his private AI company, even as he claims that AI is the future of Tesla.

In the end, these bad decisions worked, and shareholders voted to give their bad CEO his $55B pay package, even though it was later ruled to still be illegal.

So it looks like we’ve got another campaign coming up, and if last time was any indication, expect some really bad decisions along the way. It worked last time, didn’t it?

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E-quipment highlight: Perkins TracStar battery electric power unit

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Perkins develops a drop-in battery electric power unit

The off-highway equipment experts at Perkins and McElroy have teamed up to develop a plug-and-play battery electric power unit designed to help equipment OEMs and upfitters to seamlessly transition from diesel to battery electric power.

Designed to occupy the same space as the companies’ diesel-engined power units, Perkins dropped its new battery power unit into the similarly new McElroy TracStar 900i pipe fusion machine (specialized equipment used to join thermoplastic pipes like HDPE or polypropylene by heat-welding them end-to-end to form a continuous length pf pipe).

Perkins’ battery electric power unit replaces the company’s proprietary 134 hp, 3.6 liter 904 Series Tier V diesel engine, enabling units that are already deployed to be quickly upgraded to electric power – and helping trade allies and development partners to easily retrofit existing equipment in order to add zero-emission options to their operational fleet.

“We’re actively helping customers navigate the shift in power system requirements, with a range of advanced power systems including electric, diesel-electric and alternative fuel compatible engines,” says Jaz Gill, vice president, global sales, marketing at Perkins. “When it comes to the innovative fully integrated battery electric power unit, it can be ‘dropped in’ to a machine to replace a diesel engine. The system consists of a Perkins battery along with inverters, motors and on-board chargers – all packaged up into a compact drop-in system to support seamless transition from diesel to electric for our customers looking to make that move.”

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McElroy believes that an electric, emissions-free power unit like this one will open new opportunities and applications for its customers.

“Their team has done a phenomenal job of integrating their battery electric system into our TracStar 900i,” explains McElroy President and CEO Chip McElroy. “We’re really excited to see what the market thinks about this concept.”

Development of the battery electric powered pipe fusion machine was completed in about nine months. Future Perkins-powered electric equipment running the 904 diesel (small excavators, telehandlers, pumps, and gensets) could be developed even more quickly. You can find out more in the company’s promo video, below.

Perkins electric power unit

SOURCE | IMAGES: McElroy, Perkins.

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