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Today’s Green Deals are featuring two big early Christmas sales, the first of which is coming from EcoFlow through most of the month with up to 55% in savings that are continuing and beating out Black Friday rates, like the DELTA 3 Plus Portable Power Station that starts at a $649 low, with many others. Riding up behind it is Rad Power’s early holiday savings with e-bike price cuts, free gear and extra battery promos, accessory discounts – and even the return of the RadCity 5 Plus Step-Through Commuter e-bike at $1,499. We also spotted some new and returning low rates on four Goal Zero Yeti Portable Power Stations starting from $336, while the budget-friendly Worx 40V 20-inch Cordless Electric PowerShare Snow Blower drops back to the $300 2024 low. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s early holiday sale from Heybike, and more. You’ll also find all the hangover Green Deals from Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales collected together in our dedicated shopping hub for you.

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.

EcoFlow decks the halls with up to 55% savings on power stations, bundles, more from $45 in early Christmas sale

EcoFlow has launched its early Christmas sale that will run through December 16 and is taking up to 55% off its power banks, power stations, solar generator bundles, home backup bundles, and accessories – with some free gifts and bonus savings thrown in too. One notable standout undercutting its Black Friday pricing is the DELTA 3 Plus Portable Power Station which is down at $649 shipped. Normally running you $799 at full price, we’ve seen a few varying discounts since this newer model was released back in September, with October’s Prime Day event taking the price down to the $649 low while the recent Black Friday sale only saw it go to $699. That low price is returning here today, saving you $150 and giving you a second chance at the lowest rate we have tracked. There are even a few bundle options here, with the power station coming with a 220W solar panel for $949, down from $1,448, or two 220W panels and a protective bag at $1,199, down from $2,166, or you can grab it with a 800W alternator charger for $999, down from $1,398.

As is always the case with EcoFlow’s major sales events, there are some bonus savings that make larger-sized purchases much more enticing, as you’ll receive a free RIVER 600 power station with orders over $2,000 or a free RIVER Pro power station with orders over $5,000. There are also some members-only benefits too, with a redemption of EcoCredits scoring 5% in additional savings, as well as getting 2x the EcoCredits with purchases on all sitewide products.

One of the newest models under EcoFlow’s flag, the DELTA 3 Plus power station delivers a modular backup power design on a smaller scale with a base 1,024Wh LiFePO4 capacity that you can invest further into and expand up to 5kWh by using expansion batteries from the DELTA 3, DELTA Pro 3, DELTA 2 Max, or DELTA 2 stations. You’ll be equipped with the means to power most appliances here, as it dishes out constant power up to 1,800W (surging to 3,600W) through its 13 ports thanks to its X-Boost tech, which allows for appliances requiring 2,600W being better supported than with older stations.

The benefits from its X-Boost tech doesn’t stop there either, as it gives the unit five fast-charging ways to refuel its battery. Plugged into a standard wall outlet will return the battery to full in only 56 minutes, which matches the time the brand’s Smart Generator 4000 would take to do the same. Using the alternator charger you can expect a full battery in 1.3 hours of driving, or do things in 70 minutes when utilizing its max 1,000W solar input. It even comes with multi-charge options, taking an hour to refill the battery when pairing its solar charging capabilities with a wall outlet.

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Rad Power brings its RadCity 5 Plus Commuter e-bike back to market at $1,499 in early Christmas sale

Rad Power has launched its early Christmas sale through December 12 that is offering e-bike price cuts, free gear and extra battery promotions, accessory discounts – all to be shipped to you before Christmas day to go under the tree. A surprising return during this event is the RadCity 5 Plus Step-Thru Commuter e-bike in an all-new burgundy colorway for $1,499 shipped. Normally priced at $1,699, we last saw this model amongst the lineup back during the brand’s Labor Day sale when it was on clearance at the $999 low with Rad stating it would be discontinued, which was the case until today. Now it comes back with $200 struck from its price tag and sporting a new paint job at the third-lowest price we have tracked.

My mom got a hold of this model well before it was “discontinued” and every time I’ve visited since, I spend hours cruising around the streets of their town on it – even preferring it for errands over my car. The RadCity 5 Plus cruises back onto the scene with a 750W rear hub motor that is powered by the semi-integrated 672Wh battery, providing you with up to 50+ miles on a single charge with its five levels of pedal assistance (plus a zero-level) at top speeds of 20 MPH. Alongside its performance, your ride is only enhanced with features like the water-resistant wiring harness, integrated taillight with brake light functionality, a standard LED headlight, fenders for both wheels, an integrated rear storage rack, and a backlit LCD display.

Rad Power early Christmas sale e-bike discounts:

  • RadExpand 5 Folding e-bike: $1,599
    • 20 MPH for up to 45+ miles (90+ with extra battery)
    • Add the extra battery to your cart with the e-bike for automatic discount

Rad Power early Christmas sale e-bike accessory deals:

  • RadKick 7-speed Lightweight e-bike (new model): $1,399
    • 20 MPH for up to 35+ miles
    • comes with free accessory under $200
    • add both to cart for automatic accessory discount
  • RadKick Belt-Drive Lightweight e-bike (new model): $1,599
    • 20 MPH for up to 35+ miles
    • comes with free accessory under $200
    • add both to cart for automatic accessory discount
  • RadExpand 5 Plus Folding e-bike (new model): $1,899
    • 20 MPH for up to 65+ miles
    • comes with free accessory under $200
    • add both to cart for automatic accessory discount
  • RadRunner 3 Plus Utility e-bike: $2,199
    • 20 MPH for up to 45+ miles
    • comes with free accessory under $200
    • add both to cart for automatic accessory discount
  • Radster Road Commuter e-bike (new model): $2,199
    • 28 MPH for up to 65+ miles
    • comes with free accessory under $200
    • add both to cart for automatic accessory discount
  • Radster Trail Off-Road e-bike (new model): $2,199
    • 28 MPH for up to 65+ miles
    • comes with free accessory under $200
    • add both to cart for automatic accessory discount
  • RadWagon 5 Cargo e-bike (new model): $2,399
    • 28 MPH for up to 60+ miles
    • comes with free accessory under $200
    • add both to cart for automatic accessory discount

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Goal Zero Yeti power stations

Goal Zero offers new and returning lows with up to $584 in savings on four Yeti power stations starting from $336

The official Goal Zero Amazon storefront is undercutting prices from Black Friday on some of its Yeti Portable Power Stations, with the Yeti 500 now down at $335.95 shipped, after clipping the on-page $114 off coupon, and the Yeti 700 down at $448.95 shipped, after clipping the on-page $151 off coupon. Normally these two stations would run you $450 and $600, respectively, with both hitting $337 and $450 at the end of October, repeating during Black Friday sales. Today, you can grab them at $1 lower than before at new all-time low rates.

Whether you’re in need of portable backup power while on outdoor ventures or even at job sites, these 6th-generation models are designed to support your devices and small appliances when they need more juice. Sharing the same designs and features, they differ in their battery capacities and output power – 499Wh capacity with 500W (1,000W surging) output for the Yeti 500 and 677Wh capacity with 600W (1,000W surging) output for the Yeti 700.

They’ve been upgraded with fast-charging capabilities via a wall outlet, with the Yeti 500 regaining a full battery in 90 minutes while the Yeti 700 reaches a full battery in under 2 hours. Your small appliance and device charging needs are covered by the two AC ports, two USB-A ports, two USB-C ports, plus the bonus car port – and both can be hooked up to a solar panel with a max input level of 200W, with recharging ranging from 2.9 hours to 4 hours, depending on your model.

More Goal Zero post-Black Friday deals:

  • Yeti 1500X Portable Power Station (new low): $779 (Reg. $1,279)
    • 1,516Wh capacity and 2,000W output surging to 3,500W
  • Yeti 6000X Portable Power Station (return low): $2,500 (Reg. $3,000)
    • 6,071Wh capacity and 2,000W output surging to 3,500W

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Worx snow blower

Worx’s budget-friendly 40V 20-inch cordless electric PowerShare snow blower returns to $300 2024 low

Amazon is offering homeowners an affordable means to clear snow from your walkways this winter with Worx’s 40V 20-inch Cordless PowerShare Snow Blower for $299.99 shipped. Carrying a $400 price tag recently since falling from its $440 MSRP over the summer, we last saw this same price pop up just after New Year’s Day for a short period before spending the rest of 2024 keeping above $319. While we have seen in go lower in past years, you’re still looking at a solid $100 slashed off its tag here at the lowest price we have tracked this year – plus, it delivers snow-clearing support at a more budget-friendly price than many heavier-duty competitors.

This Worx snow blower’s brushless motor comes powered by two PowerShare 20V batteries (compatible across its multi-tool ecosystem) in order to clear out a 20-inch wide path around your home and tossing the built up snow up to 20 feet out of the way with its 180-degree rotating chute. You’ll be able to see during early-morning and late-night clearings thanks to the two LED headlights, with the chute’s one-touch deflector allowing for quick and easy adjustments to its throwing height and distance. When you’re all done with the job, you can fold up the handle to save some extra space.

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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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Tesla launches accessory to Macgyver power outlets on the go on new cheaper Cybertruck

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Tesla launches accessory to Macgyver power outlets on the go on new cheaper Cybertruck

Tesla has launched a new accessory enabling you to “Macgyver” a couple of power outlets from the Cybertruck’s charge port.

It appears to be designed for the new cheaper Cybertruck, which doesn’t have power outlets in its bed.

Earlier this week, Tesla launched the Cybertruck Long Range RWD: a new, cheaper, and badly nerfed version of the electric pickup truck.

The new version is extremely disappointing as it is $9,000 more expensive than the Cybertruck RWD was supposed to be, and while it has more range than originally planned, Tesla has removed a ton of features, including some important ones.

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Here’s what you lose with the Cybertruck RWD:

  • You get a single motor RWD instead of Dual Motor AWD
  • You lose the adaptive air suspension
  • No motorized tonneau, but you have an optional $750 soft tonneau
  • Textile seats instead of vegan leather
  • Fewer speakers
  • No rear screen for the backseat
  • No power outlets in the bed

The last one has been pretty disappointing, as it can’t be that expensive to include, and Tesla is basically removing $20,000 worth of features for only a $10,000 difference with the Dual Motor Cybertruck.

But the automaker appears to have come up with a partial solution.

Tesla has launched a $80 ‘Powershare Outlet Adapter’ on its online store:

When combined with Tesla’s Gen 3 Mobile Connector plugged into the Cybertruck’s charge port, it gives you two 120V 20A power outlets.

Tesla describes the product:

Powershare Outlet Adapter allows you to power electronic devices using Mobile Connector and your Powershare-equipped vehicle’s battery. To use this adapter, plug Mobile Connector’s handle into your Powershare-equipped vehicle’s charge port and connect the adapter to the other end of your Mobile Connector. You can then use this adapter to plug in any compatible electronic device you want to power.

For now, Tesla says that this only works for the Cybertruck and you have to buy the $300 mobile charging connector, which doesn’t come with the truck.

Electrek’s Take

I guess it’s better than nothing, but I’m still super disappointed in the new trim. It makes no sense right now.

Not only you lose the 2x 120V, 1x 240V outlets in the bed, but you also lose the 2x 120V outlets in the cabin. Now, you can can pay $380 to have a “Macgyver” solution for 2 120V outlets in the back.

I’m convinced that Tesla designed this trim simply to make the $80,000 Cybertruck AWD look better value-wise.

It looks like Tesla took out about $20,000 worth of features while giving buyers only a $10,000 discount.

It’s just the latest example of Tesla losing its edge.

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Great news: IMO agrees to first-ever global carbon price on shipping

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Great news: IMO agrees to first-ever global carbon price on shipping

The International Maritime Organization, a UN agency which regulates maritime transport, has voted to implement a global cap on carbon emissions from ocean shipping and a penalty on entities that exceed that limit.

After a weeklong meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the IMO and decades of talks, countries have voted to implement binding carbon reduction targets including a gradually-reducing cap on emissions and associated penalties for exceeding that cap.

Previously, the IMO made another significant environmental move when it transitioned the entire shipping industry to lower-sulfur fuels in 2020, moving towards improving a longstanding issue with large ships outputting extremely high levels of sulfur dioxide emissions, which harm human health and cause acid rain.

Today’s agreement makes the shipping industry the first sector to agree on an internationally mandated target to reduce emissions along with a global carbon price.

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The agreement includes standards for greenhouse gas intensity from maritime shipping fuels, with those standards starting in 2028 and reducing through 2035. The end goal is to reach net-zero emissions in shipping by 2050.

Companies that exceed the carbon limits set by the standard will have to pay either $100 or $380 per excess ton of emissions, depending on how much they exceed limits by. These numbers are roughly in line with the commonly-accepted social cost of carbon, which is an attempt to set the equivalent cost borne by society by every ton of carbon pollution.

Money from these penalties will be put into a fund that will reward lower-emissions ships, research into cleaner fuels, and support nations that are vulnerable to climate change.

That means that this agreement represents a global “carbon price” – an attempt to make polluters pay the costs that they shift onto everyone else by polluting.

Why carbon prices matter

The necessity of a carbon price has long been acknowledged by virtually every economist. In economic terms, pollution is called a “negative externality,” where a certain action imposes costs on a party that isn’t responsible for the action itself. That action can be thought of as a subsidy – it’s a cost imposed by the polluter that isn’t being paid by the polluter, but rather by everyone else.

Externalities distort a market because they allow certain companies to get away with cheaper costs than they should otherwise have. And a carbon price is an attempt to properly price that externality, to internalize it to the polluter in question, so that they are no longer being subsidized by everyone else’s lungs. This also incentivizes carbon reductions, because if you can make something more cleanly, you can make it more cheaply.

Many people have suggested implementing a carbon price, including former republican leadership (before the party forgot literally everything about how economics works), but political leadership has been hesitant to do what’s needed because it fears the inevitable political backlash driven by well-funded propaganda entities in the oil industry.

For that reason, most carbon pricing schemes have focused on industrial processes, rather than consumer goods. This is currently happening in Canada, which recently (unwisely) retreated from its consumer carbon price but still maintains a price on the largest polluters in the oil industry.

But until today’s agreement by the IMO, there had been no global agreement of the same in any industry. There are single-country carbon prices, and international agreements between certain countries or subnational entities, often in the form of “cap-and-trade” agreements which implement penalties, and where companies that reduce emissions earn credits that they can then sell to companies that exceed limits (California has a similar program in partnership with with Quebec), but no previous global carbon price in any industry.

Carbon prices opposed by enemies of life on Earth

Unsurprisingly, entities that favor destruction of life on Earth, such as the oil industry and those representing it (Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the bought-and-paid oil stooge who is illegally squatting in the US Oval Office), opposed these measures, claiming they would be “unworkable.”

Meanwhile, island nations whose entire existence is threatened by climate change (along with the ~2 billion people who will have to relocate by the end of the century due to rising seas) correctly said that the move isn’t strong enough, and that even stronger action is needed to avoid the worse effects of climate change.

The island nations’ position is backed by science, the oil companies’ position is not.

While these new standards are historic and need to be lauded as the first agreement of their kind, there is still more work to be done and incentives that need to be offered to ensure that greener technologies are available to help fulfill the targets. Jesse Fahnestock, Director of Decarbonisation at the Global Maritime Forum, said: 

While the targets are a step forward, they will need to be improved if they are to drive the rapid fuel shift that will enable the maritime sector to reach net zero by 2050. While we applaud the progress made, meeting the targets will require immediate and decisive investments in green fuel technology and infrastructure. The IMO will have opportunities to make these regulations more impactful over time, and national and regional policies also need to prioritise scalable e-fuels and the infrastructure needed for long-term decarbonisation.

One potential solution could be IMO’s “green corridors,” attempts to establish net-zero-emission shipping routes well in advance of the IMO’s 2050 net-zero target.

And, of course, this is only one industry, and one with a relatively low contribution to global emissions. While the vast majority of global goods are shipped over the ocean, it’s still responsible for only around 3% of global emissions. To see the large emissions reductions we need to avoid the worst effects of climate change, other more-polluting sectors – like automotive, agriculture (specifically animal agriculture), construction and heating – all could use their own carbon price to help add a forcing factor to drive down their emissions.

Lets hope that the IMO’s move sets that example, and we see more of these industries doing the right thing going forward (and ignoring those enemies of life on Earth listed above).

The agreement still has to go through a final step of approval on October, but this looks likely to happen.

Even without a carbon price, many homeowners can save money on their electricity bills today by going solar. And if you’re considering going solar, it’s always a good idea to get quotes from a few installers. To make sure you find a trusted, reliable solar installer near you that offers competitive pricing, check out EnergySage, a free service that makes it easy for you to go solar. It has hundreds of pre-vetted solar installers competing for your business, ensuring you get high-quality solutions and save 20-30% compared to going it alone. Plus, it’s free to use, and you won’t get sales calls until you select an installer and share your phone number with them. 

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Podcast: new Tesla Cybertruck, tariff mayhem, Lucid buys Nikola, and more

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In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the new Tesla Cybertruck RWD, more tariff mayhem, Lucid buying Nikola, and more.

The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.

As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in.

After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps:

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