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Kickstarting this week’s Green Deals, we have a bunch of first-time post-launch discounts on EcoFlow’s new DELTA 3 Portable Power Station starting from $649, along with tons more early Prime Day discounts. Lectric is celebrating the return of Football season with up to $554 taken off e-bike bundles to get you to the tailgate parties. NIU’s latest sale is taking up to 35% off its KQi e-scooter lineup, with the KQi3 Max Electric Kick Scooter down at $700. There’s also a first-time price cut on Goal Zero’s 53L Alta 50 portable fridge/freezer, as well as low prices on the budget-friendly CRAFTSMAN 1,700 PSI Electric Pressure washer and EcoSmart’s 3.5kW Electric Tankless Water heater for under-sink usage. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals in the links at the bottom of the page, like last week’s exclusive $599 low on the ENGWE EP-2 PRO Electric Bike 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 $850 on EcoFlow’s new DELTA 3 power station in early Prime Day sale starting from $649

Today, EcoFlow has launched its Early Prime Big Deal Days sale through October 13, which is taking up to $2,899 off power stations, bundles, and accessories – plus, extra savings on orders over $3,000. One of the notable inclusions in this sale is EcoFlow’s new DELTA 3 Portable Power Station bundled with a 400W Solar Panel for $1,198 shipped. Normally priced at $1,998, this is one of several of the first price cuts we have seen on this new model since releasing a few weeks ago, coming in here as a 43% markdown that saves you $850 and sets a new low price for the bundle going forward. You can also find the power station alone discounted to $649, coming with a free waterproof bag, as well as options to get the station and bag with a 220W solar panel for $799, or an 800W alternator charger for $848.

A quick note here: EcoFlow is offering extra savings on orders above a certain threshold, with an additional 7% taken off orders between $3,000 and $4,999, while an additional 9% will be taken off orders over $5,000. Members will also benefit from 2x EcoCredits on web-exclusive deals that you can find on the landing page here.

EcoFlow’s new DELTA 3 Portable Power Station delivers a 1,024Wh capacity that can be expanded further up to 5kWh when connected to an expansion battery from the DELTA 3, DELTA Pro 3, DELTA 2 Max, or DELTA 2 stations, giving folks more versatile expansion options, especially if you already own the appropriate equipment. It dishes out power at up to 1,800W speeds, which can surge up to 3,600W thanks to its X-Boost tech, letting you run appliances over 2600W for home backup, RV support, or general outdoor usage so you’re never left in the dark.

The X-Boost benefits don’t stop there either, as it offers five fast-charging methods to refill its battery, with a standard wall outlet taking only 56 minutes, which is the same time it takes for the brand’s Smart Generator 4000 to refuel it. You can also recharge from your car taking 1.3 hours, while solar charging takes 70 minutes when hooked up to a 1,000W max solar input, it even offers a multi-charging option too, utilizing both AC and solar in under an hour. Along with its smart controls, there are 13 output ports to cover your needs: six AC ports, two USB-A ports, two USB-C ports, two DC ports, and a car port.

Don’t miss out on the rest of the deals during this sale either, which you can browse in full on this page here – and be sure to keep your eyes peeled for several one-day flash sales that are scheduled to drop from September 25 through October 7, giving you a chance at Prime Day savings ahead of the upcoming two-day event on October 8 and 9.

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Lectric celebrates tailgating season with up to $554 off e-bike bundles starting from $1,299

Football is back y’all, and to celebrate the beginning of a new season, Lectric has a short-term Tailgating Flash Sale that is offering up to $554 in free gear along with two e-bike models, with the biggest package coming with the XPedition Cargo e-bike at $1,475 shipped. You’ll be able to add this commuting solution to your garage while also getting everything you need to carry yourself and your favorite tailgating setup down to the game, with the bundle including rear-rack cushions and running boards for passenger/cargo support, two XL pannier bags to carry your food items and gadgets, as well as an orbitor basket, a 50L storage bag, and a 6L frame bag too. You can get more details on the e-bike below, or check out why we called it a game-changing model in our hands-on review.

As we noted in our review above, Lectric has produced one of the best cargo e-bikes on the market for such an affordable price. The whole thing is powered by a 48V battery, with a 750W rear hub-motor working right alongside it, reaching top speeds of 20 MPH while just using the throttle for pure electric action and an even greater 28 MPH when utilizing its five levels of pedal assistance. Its standard setup already boasts an impressive 75-mile travel distance on one full charge, which the dual-battery model ramps up to an even greater 150-miles of travel for $224 more.

One notable thing about this model is its much higher 450-pound payload, with the company recommending a rider’s max weight beinig 330 pounds or less. This is significant room to play with in terms of what cargo you’re hauling – whether it’s appliances or people – especially if you’re on the lower end of the spectrum, like me at 135 pounds. Aside from the free gear you’re getting from the bundle here, it also comes pre-stocked with hydraulic mineral oil brakes that are paired with 180mm rotors, custom puncture-resistant tires for added peace of mind no matter how rough the ride may get, as well as a headlamp, taillights, fenders over both wheels, and a backlit LCD display.

The other e-bikes benefitting from this flash sale are Lectric’s XP 3.0 Long-Range e-bikes at $1,299 shipped and come with $507 in free gear. The three models here all come with a 500W hub motor and a long-range internal 48V battery that both get the bike up to 20 MPH, or if your state’s regulations allow it, further to max 28 MPH speeds. The travel distance of these models varies based on which of its five pedal assist levels you’re using (powered by the brand’s Pedal Assist Wattage Regulation Programming that you can learn more about here). You’ll get up to 65 miles with the assistance or up to 30 miles using only the throttle. And of course, there’s its other features like the integrated rear cargo rack, puncture-resistant tires, 180mm hydraulic disc brakes, a headlight and a taillight, as well as the LCD display and its foldable body for easier storage/transport when you’re not on the saddle.

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Get 40-mile range and regenerative braking with NIU’s KQi3 Max Electric Kick Scooter at $700, more

NIU has launched a sale that is taking up to 35% off its lineup of KQi e-scooters through September 30, with one of its more notable offerings being the KQi3 Max Electric Kick Scooter at $699.98 shipped. Normally this model holds a $999 price tag that it regularly keeps to, with most of the direct sales from NIU dropping costs around $750, while a handful of Best Buy one-day sales have seen $760 rates. Today though, the price cut is coming in bigger than we’re used to, slashing nearly $300 off its tag and landing it down at the second-lowest price we have tracked, only beaten out by a $599 low we saw during July’s Prime Day event.

One of the higher-end commuting options under NIU’s flag, the KQi3 Max boasts an impressive 40 miles of travel distance per charge thanks to its 608.4Wh battery. The 450W rear-wheel drive motor can top out at speeds of 23.6 MPH too, meaning you’re getting some serious get-up-and-go power here, with it even able to tackle up to a 25% incline, beating a huge majority of models on the market. There’s a triple braking system here, including the always-appreciated addition of regenerative brakes that recycle energy to extend your travel range – plus, the self-healing tires add another reason to worry less and enjoy more.

There are a bunch of other great features for the price too, like the halo headlight, the brake light functionality, and a typical folding frame that I always expect on scooters. It also sports a full array of smart capabilities that can be accessed through the NIU app or the LED display, like unlocking its 23.6 MPH speeds and even locking your scooter for extra security.

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Goal Zero’s 53L Alta 50 portable fridge/freezer holds 75 cans for $552 in first discount

Goal Zero’s official Amazon storefront is offering the brand’s newest Alta 50 Portable Fridge/Freezer at $551.97 shipped, after clipping the on-page 31% off coupon. Sitting at its $800 MSRP since first releasing in February, today’s deal marks the first discount we have seen, giving you an opportunity at some major savings ahead of the upcoming autumn camping season. With its price this low for such a large 53L capacity, it beats out plenty of its same-sized competitors that often keep around $750 and up.

Summer may be coming to a close, but the warmth seems to be following us deeper and deeper into fall with each new year, and with all the autumn camping plans you’ll likely have, why not ensure that your food and beverages stay cold and crisp? Say goodbye to ice runs with this portable electric refrigerator and freezer, as it can go as low as -4 degrees, giving it the dual-functionality to do either job. While it doesn’t sport its own battery, it does have a typical cable to plug into an outlet, or you can run it for days at a time when plugged up to your existing Goal Zero power station. Its 53L capacity holds up to 75 twelve-ounce cans at once, which is one of the larger capacities we’ve seen at such a price lately, making it an affordable RV appliance for longer outings or a temporary campsite appliance during shorter trips.

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CRAFTSMAN budget-friendly 1,700 PSI Electric Pressure Washer hits new $89 low

Amazon is offering the CRAFTSMAN 1,700 PSI Electric Pressure Washer for $89 shipped. Normally priced at $109 most days, it spent the first six months riding along at its full price until we saw the first 2024 discounts to $99 at the tail-end of June. This same discounted rate has been repeated a few times since, but it comes in today with an even greater $20 markdown that lands it at a new all-time low price.

There’s always going to be grime building up around your home, particularly the driveways and walkways that are regularly used by you and visitors alike or after inclement weather rolls through. With this budget-friendly pressure washer though, you can not only remove the gunk as it begins showing (or even after letting it pile up), but you’ll be doing it knowing that you didn’t take a financial hit in the process.

It delivers 1,700 PSI of cold water power at a 1.2 GPM flow rate, ensuring the cleaning jobs around your home are tackled without concern. All of its included bits and bobs, like the nozzle, the 20 feet of kink-resistant hose, and the power cord have their own onboard storage space for convenience, making it easier to keep everything together. There’s also an added soap applicator bottle that hooks right up to the gun so you can enhance its cleaning power too.

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EcoSmart 3.5kW under-sink Electric Tankless Water Heater falls to $132

Amazon is now offering the EcoSmart 3.5kW Electric Tankless Water Heater for $132.02 shipped. Listed for $199 and averaging more around $190 for most of 2024, this device has seen significantly lower and less frequent discounts than we’ve seen in previous years, though the few price cuts that have appeared have offered sizeable relief from the long periods of higher rates, down to $130 at most. It’s gone as low as $105 in the past, specifically five years ago, but today’s 31% markdown comes in as one of the best we’ve seen in the time since, landing it down at the second-lowest price of the last four years and the third-lowest price overall – just $27 above the all-time low from 2019.

With the colder months fast approaching, many homes will be in need of some assistance when it comes to providing hot water, and this 3.5kW under-sink tankless water heater is here to help. Designed for a single point-of-use, this device comes in compact dimensions (6-inch by 11-inch by 3-inch) that make it a better fit in tighter under-counter spaces. It has a low 0.5 GPM activation flow rate that also fits commercial needs for low-flow faucets.

One thing to keep in mind here is that if you live in colder climates within North America, it might not be the best addition to handle those lower inlet water temperatures. To properly function, it will require one 30A breaker, a wire gauge of 10 AWG, and a 1/2-inch NPT connection.

Summer e-bike deals!

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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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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.

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Tesla teases mysterious new product unveiling this week

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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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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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