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Today’s Green Deals are led by ENGWE’s Autumn Sale, which has dropped its new entry-level L20 2.0 e-bike to $799 while also giving you $268 in free gear, among many other models. We also spotted a second chance to score Jackery’s new Explorer 2000 v2 Portable Power Station back at its $999 Prime Day low price. Goal Zero’s 500 Lumen Torch Light which also doubles as a 5,200mAh solar charging power bank is getting a nice price cut to $40, while we also have two one-day-only discounts on Anker’s 400W SOLIX PS400 Portable Power Station at $629 and Greenworks’ 80V 26-inch Cordless Electric Hedge Trimmer at $175. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s Lectric XP 3.0 Long-Range e-bike flash sale that ends tomorrow or Bluetti’s ongoing post-Prime Day sale, 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.

ENGWE’s L20 2.0 e-bike with 28 MPH top speeds and 68+ miles of range falls to $799

ENGWE has an ongoing Autumn sale that is taking up to $500 off single e-bike models and up to $800 off dual e-bike bundles – plus, you’ll also be getting up to $268 in free gear (including some extra battery options)! One of the best bang-for-your-buck entry-level models is the L20 2.0 e-bike that is down at $799 shipped with $268 in free gear being thrown in with your purchase. It normally sits at $999 since first being released back in March, which already makes it a more affordable model for riders on a budget. We’ve seen it go a bit lower in past sales earlier in the year – hitting $699 at the start of summer, and falling lower to the $659 low by the end of summer. Today, you can add it to your commute with a solid $200 slashed off its going rate, dropping it to the fourth-lowest price we have tracked – just $140 above the all-time low from August. You can learn more about this model by heading below or checking out our hands-on review.

A newer model under ENGWE’s flag, the L20 2.0 e-bike cruises into view with a 750W geared hub motor (peaking at 1,125W) and a 52V 676Wh battery that provides top speeds of 20 MPH when only using its throttle and an even greater 28 MPH when taking advantage of its pedal assistance capabilities. For the price, you’re also getting a decent travel distance here, with throttle-only riding carrying you up to 28 miles while the pedal assistance increases that range up to 68 to 80 miles, depending on conditions.

The L20 2.0 e-bike has been given a folding frame that makes storage and transport outside of riding far less of a hassle – especially considering most folks on a tight commuting budget are likely to live in apartments without garage space (plus it weighs in at about 68 pounds too). It’s also been stocked with some solid features, like mechanical disc brakes on 180 mm rotors, a rear cargo rack, integrated head/tail/brake LED lights, front fork and post suspension, a SHIMANO 7-speed derailleur, puncture-resistant fat tires, and a color LED display.

Notable ENGWE Autumn Sale e-bike deals:

  • Engwe EP-2 Pro e-bike: $1000 (Reg. $1,498)
    • 75-mile max range
    • with extra battery (up to 150-mile range)
  • X20 Triple-Suspension Folding e-bike: $1,099 (Reg. $1,599)
    • with $199 in free gear
    • Dual-battery option available for $100 more
  • LE20 Step-Thru Cargo e-bike: $1,399 (Reg. $1,499)
    • 109-mile travel distance
    • with $268 in free gear
    • Dual-battery option (211 miles) available for $300 more
  • X26 Triple-Suspension Folding e-bike: $1,749 (Reg. $1,999)
    • with dual batteries for 93-mile range + $69 in free gear
  • And even more…

You can browse through the entire lineup of ENGWE’s autumn sale on the landing page here, with discounts on single e-bike purchases and double purchases alike. 

Second chance to grab Jackery’s new Explorer 2000 v2 LiFePO4 power station at return $999 Prime Day low

The official Jackery Amazon storefront is giving folks a second chance to grab its new Explorer 2000 v2 Portable Power Station at Prime Day pricing for $999 shipped. After releasing a few weeks ago at a $1,499 price tag, we’ve already seen a few discounts take costs down lower, with the first being the brand’s Prime Big Deals Day sale that lowered the price to $999 (while only dropping to $1,399 on Amazon), followed by the short Halloween sale that closed out last week at a higher $1,099 rate. Today, you can grab it while it’s back down at the lowest price we have tracked, saving you $500 on this all-new release for your backup power needs. It even beats out Jackery’s website at the moment, where it is listed at full price. There’s also a discounted bundle offer that gives you the power station with two 200W solar panels for $1,599, saving you $900.

Described by Jackery as “the smallest, lightest home backup power” thanks to the exclusive CTB tech and its honeycomb design, the new Explorer 2000 v2 delivers a reliable 2,042Wh LiFePO4 battery capacity alongside 2,200W of power output (surging to 4,400W) that can cover campsites, travel routes, and even home backup for one or more days. There are seven ports here to cover your devices and appliances, with three ACs, two USB-Cs (one of which offers 100W lightning-fast charging), one USB-A, and one car port. It’s also been given the brand’s next-gen ChargeShield 2.0 for 62 forms of protection so you won’t have to worry about charging mishaps during storms, outages, and the like.

It boasts four different options for you to recharge its battery, with a connection to a standard wall outlet getting it back to 80% battery in about 66+ minutes – or, if you need a full capacity for unexpected needs, you can activate its supercharge feature through the companion app to get a full battery in 102+ minutes. Plugging the station into your car for charging will take up to 24 hours, but still gets the job done, while taking advantage of the bundle offer gives you its maximum 400W solar input to fully recharge in 5.5 hours. One more thing to note here is its silent charging mode for when you’ve plugged it in for nighttime use or recharging, as it keeps under 30dB so you or anyone else trying to rest won’t be disturbed.

Goal Zero 500 Lumen Torch Light

Goal Zero’s 500 Lumen Torch light and 5,200mAh solar power bank at $40

Through its official Amazon storefront, Goal Zero is offering its 500 Lumen Torch Light for $39.95 shipped. Usually priced at $50 most of the time, there have been few discounts over 2024, with most keeping costs above $42, with large periods where the price went unmoved or the device was out of stock. In May we saw things drop to $38 before a long stretch at its full price, with the most recent price cut we’ve seen being the short-lived Labor Day discount that dropped things down to the $30 low before going out of stock. It’s back again here today though with a solid 20% markdown that shaves $10 off the tag and gives you the chance to score it at the third-lowest price we have tracked.

This versatile device from Goal Zero delivers multi-functional power over standard light sources, with 500 lumens of bright LED lighting for when you are tinkering in your garage, working outdoors at darker hours, camping in the unlit wilds of the world, or even supporting you through blackouts. The light is provided through either a focused spotlight or a more area-covering flood light, with the unit itself small enough to fit into your hand or even hang above you using the built-in bars. Its internal 5,200mAh battery can even double as a power bank to charge your devices through the USB-C port – plus, when its capacity has been drained, it has an integrated solar panel for recharging when you’re not near any other power source.

Anker 400W SOLIX portable solar panel

Add Anker’s 400W SOLIX PS400 portable solar panel to your setup at $629 for today only

Coming to us through its Deals of the Day, Best Buy is offering the Anker SOLIX PS400 400W Portable Solar Panel for $629 shipped. Normally sitting at $899 at Best Buy and Anker – with a higher $999 starting rate at Amazon, we see this model regularly discounted from Anker’s direct sales events, like the most recent Prime Day sale, as well as occasional one-day discounts like we’re seeing today. While normally keeping above $799 most of the time, we have seen it fall to its lowest $599 rate, with today’s deal coming in slightly higher, but still giving you a solid $270 off the going rate at the second-lowest price we have tracked.

This is a great chance to score some major savings while also upgrading your existing Anker power station setup with solar charging capabilities or greater solar input. The second-largest solar panel from under Anker’s flag (5W under the largest), it boasts a 23% conversion rate with an IP67 waterproof and scratch-resistant design to combat sudden weather changes while it may be in use, alongside a more adjustable paneling layout for four optimized angles no matter the season, location, or time of day. It’s well worth the added charging function at such a large markdown today, so make sure to grab it while you can and don’t be caught off guard when you’re most in need of a backup power solution that can keep going when no other source is nearby.

greenworks 80V 26-inch cordless electric hedge trimmer

Keep limbs in shape with Greenworks’ 80V 26-inch cordless electric hedge trimmer at $175 for today only

Courtesy of its Deals of the Day, Best Buy is offering the Greenworks 80V 26-Inch Cordless Electric Hedge Trimmer for $174.99 shipped through the rest of the day. Normally priced at $250, we’ve mainly seen discounts hit this tool’s price tag in these one-day periods, with most of 2024 having seen them drop costs to $175, while July saw a drop further to the $165 low. Today, you can score one for your lawncare toolbox at a solid 30% markdown that slashes $75 off the tag and lands it at the second-lowest price we have tracked.

Powered by a 2.0Ah battery, this 80V cordless hedge trimmer sports the brand’s TRUBRUSHLESS motor and delivers up to 60 minutes of continuous cuts on a single charge so you can shape up your hedges and trees with more efficiency and comfort. It’s been given a 180-degree rotating rear handle alongside an over-molded, wrap-around front handle to provide this comfort, making its handling far easier and safer while trimming at varying angles. Limbs up to 1.1 inches in width will stand no chance against its 26-inch dual-action blades that reach up to 3,200 strokes per minute, letting you maintain a uniformed look year-round.

Fall e-bike deals!

L20 2.0 e-bike

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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Musk complains about handouts when Tesla was only profitable due to credits

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Musk complains about handouts when Tesla was only profitable due to credits

Tesla’s earnings report dropped today, and news isn’t great. But instead of recognizing his failures that have led to Tesla’s downturn, CEO Elon Musk lashed out with conspiracy theories while also hypocritically failing to acknowledge that his company was only profitable this quarter due to regulatory credits.

The numbers are in on Tesla’s dismal quarter, with sales, profits and margins tanking significantly for the company despite a rising global EV market.

You’d expect a drop in car sales to be top of mind for a car company, but instead of talking about this, CEO Elon Musk opened the call by talking about his ineffective advisory role to a former reality TV host.

Musk is heading up the self-styled “Department of Government Efficiency,” an advisory group that is focused on reducing redundancy in government. The office is not an actual government department and has a redundant mission to the Government Accountability Office, which is an actual government department focused on reducing government waste.

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Musk originally claimed that the department would be able to save $2 trillion for the US government, which is actually impossible because federal discretionary spending is $1.7 trillion, which is a (gets out abacus) smaller number than $2 trillion.

He has, of course, failed at this task that anyone with any level of competence would have known was impossible before setting it out for themselves, and now projects that the department will save $150 billion next year, less than a tenth of his original estimate. But even that projection is likely an overstatement, given that most of the supposed savings that DOGE has found are not actual savings at all.

On top of this, the US government’s deficit has grown to the second-highest level on record – with the first happening in 2020, the last time Mr. Trump squatted in the White House. Which means the government isn’t saving money, it is in fact borrowing and spending more of it than ever before.

So, Musk’s tenure in the advisory board has been an unmitigated failure by any realistic account.

But if you listened to Tesla’s call, you wouldn’t have known this, as Musk was quite boastful of his efforts – starting a Tesla conference call with an irrelevant rant about his fake government department, instead of with Tesla business.

He claimed that he has made “a lot of progress in addressing waste and fraud” and that the job is “mostly done,” which is not correct by his own metrics. Musk stated that his purpose is “trying to bring in the insane deficit that is leading our country, the United States, to destruction,” and as we covered above, that deficit has only increased.

But he also went on to spew some rather insane conspiracy theories about the reasons behind his company’s recent failures, all of which of course put the blame on someone else, rather than himself. The buck stops anywhere but here, I guess.

His primary assertion was that the “blowback from the time I’ve been spending in government” (which, again, is an advisory role, not an actual government position) has come mainly from protesters that were “receiving fraudulent money” and are now angry that the government money spigot has been turned off.

Which, of course, he’s provided no evidence for… and he’s provided no evidence for it because it’s false.

Besides, that’s not how protests work. But incorrect claims that protests do work that way are often used by opponents of free speech, with the motivation of putting a chilling effect public participation. Fitting behavior for an enemy of the First Amendment like Elon Musk.

Meanwhile, this assertion also comes from a person who tried and failed to bribe voters to win an election. Perhaps his admiration of Tesla protesters is aspirational – he wishes his ideas were good enough to inspire that sort of grassroots political effort that money, demonstrably, cannot buy.

But this hypocrisy extends beyond Musk’s hatred of free expression, and strikes at the heart of the business he is the titular leader of, Tesla, the organization that has made him into the richest man in the world. Because not only is it not true that Tesla protests are driven by his ineffective government actions (they are, in fact, driven by him doing Nazi stuff all the time), it’s also objectively true that Musk’s companies are a large recipient of government money.

And that’s particularly relevant today, to the very earnings call where Musk made his ridiculous assertion, because in Q1 2025, Tesla only turned a profit due to government credits. Without them, it would have lost money.

Tesla only profitable in Q1 due to regulatory credits

Per today’s earnings report, Tesla earned $595 million in regulatory credits in Q1. But its total net income for the quarter was $409 million.

This means that without those regulatory credits, Tesla would have posted a -$189 million loss in Q1. It was saved not just by credit sales, but credit sales which increased year over year – in the year-ago quarter, Tesla made $442 million in regulatory credits, despite having higher sales in Q1 2024 than in Q1 2025. So not only were credits higher, but credits per vehicle were higher.

This is a common feature of Tesla earnings, and we even said in our earnings preview that we expected it. While Tesla had a bad quarter, nobody expected it to become actually unprofitable, because there was always the possibility of increasing regulatory credit sales to eke out a profitable quarter.

And this has been the case many times in Tesla’s past, as well. In earlier times, Tesla’s first few profitable quarters were decried by the company’s opponents as an accounting trick, suggesting that regulatory credit sales weren’t “real” profits, and that the cars should have to stand on their own.

This is a silly thing to say – businesses do business in the environment that exists, and every business has an incentive structure that includes subsidies and externalities. If we were to selectively write off certain profits for certain businesses, we could make a tortured case that any business isn’t profitable.

Plus, these opponents didn’t extend the same treatment to the oil industry, which is subsidized to the tune of $760 billion per year in the US alone in unpriced externalities, yet that is somehow never mentioned during their earnings calls.

Musk has even claimed, probably correctly, that if all subsidies were eliminated both for EVs and for oil & gas, that EVs would come out ahead compared to the status quo (more recently, Musk has become one of the biggest funders of anti-EV forces, allying himself with a bought-and-paid oil stooge who is giving even more preferential treatment to the oil industry).

But, setting aside the debate over whether credits are valid profits (they are), for years now we’ve been well beyond Tesla’s reliance on credits. The company has produced significant profits, regardless of credit sales, for some time now.

At least, until today. That’s no longer true – Tesla did rely on credits to become profitable in Q1. And Musk starting the call with a ridiculous rant about government handouts not only shows his hypocrisy and projection on this matter, but his detachment from reality itself. He is, truly, too stuck in the impenetrable echo chamber of his self-congratulating twitter feed to realize what an embarrassment he’s being in public – to the point of inventing shadow enemies to explain the very real, very simple explanation that people aren’t buying his company’s cars because he sucks so much.

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No matter how badly a fleet wants to electrify their operations and take advantage of reduced fuel costs and TCO, the fact remains that there are substantial up-front obstacles to commercial EV adoption … or are there? We’ve got fleet financing expert Guy O’Brien here to help walk us through it on today’s fiscally responsible episode of Quick Charge!

This conversation was motivated by the recent uncertainty surrounding EVs and EV infrastructure at the Federal level, and how that turmoil is leading some to believe they should wait to electrify. The truth? There’s never been a better time to make the switch!

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New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded, usually, Monday through Thursday (and sometimes Sunday). We’ll be posting bonus audio content from time to time as well, so be sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss a minute of Electrek’s high-voltage daily news.

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Vermont sees an explosive 41% rise in EV adoption in just a year

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Vermont’s EV adoption has surged by an impressive 41% over the past year, with nearly 18,000 EVs now registered statewide.

According to data from Drive Electric Vermont and the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, 17,939 EVs were registered as of January 2025, increasing by 5,185 vehicles. Notably, over 12% of all new cars registered last year in Vermont had a plug. Additionally, used EVs are gaining popularity, accounting for about 15% of new EV registrations.

To put it in perspective, Vermont took six years to register its first 5,000 EVs – and the last 5,000 were added in just the previous year.

Rapid growth, expanding infrastructure

In just two years, Vermont has doubled its fleet of EVs, underscoring residents’ enthusiasm for electric driving. To support this surge, the state now boasts 459 public EV chargers, including 92 DC fast chargers.

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The EV mix in Vermont is leaning increasingly toward BEVs, which represent 60% of the state’s EV fleet. The remaining 40% consists of PHEVs, offering flexible fuel options for drivers.

Top EV models in Vermont

Vermont’s favorite EVs in late 2024 included the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Nissan Ariya, Toyota RAV4 Prime PHEV, Tesla Model Y, and the Ford F-150 Lightning. These vehicles have appealed to Vermont drivers looking for reliability, performance, and practical features that work well in Vermont’s climate.

Leading the US in reducing emissions

This strong adoption of EVs earned Vermont the top ranking from the Natural Resources Defense Council for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in transportation in 2023. “It’s only getting easier for Vermonters to drive electric,” noted Michele Boomhower, Vermont’s Department of Transportation director. She emphasized the growing variety of EV models, including electric trucks and SUVs with essential features like all-wheel drive, crucial for Vermont’s climate and terrain.

Local dealerships boost EV accessibility

Nucar Automall, an auto dealer in St. Albans, is a great example of local support driving this trend. With help from Efficiency Vermont’s EV dealer incentives – receiving $25,000 through the EV Readiness Incentive program – it recently installed 15 EV chargers for new buyers and existing drivers to use.

“Having these chargers on the lot makes it easier for customers to see just how simple charging an EV can be,” said Ryan Ortiz, general manager at Nucar Automall. Ortiz also pointed out the growing affordability of EVs, thanks to more models becoming available and an increase in pre-owned EVs coming off leases.

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