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Today’s Green Deals is led by the long-awaited Anker SOLIX Christmas sale that is taking up to 50% off the brand’s lineup of power stations, bundles, and accessories – with the F2000 Portable Power Station for home appliance back up and traveling support down at $1,199, with other deals starting from $99. Next, we have Murf’s 20% off sitewide holiday sale dropping the Higgs Fat-Tire e-bike to a new $1,916 low, among others. There are a bunch of notable Greenworks tool deals coming from Amazon, with the tree-felling 80V 16-inch Cordless Electric Chainsaw returning to its $224 low. Lastly, Govee’s new Smart Electric Composter is ready to support your green thumb with low-cost fertilizer at $265. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like last week’s four exclusive Vanpowers e-bike lows, the latest EV and power station holiday sales, 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.

Anker SOLIX Christmas sale is bringing up to 50% discounts to town on power stations, bundles, more from $99

Anker SOLIX has finally launched its Christmas sales event that will run through December 26, taking up to 50% off its lineup of popular power stations, bundles for solar generators and home backup, and accessories – there’s even some free gear on select purchases and chances to win prizes. For folks not wanting to shell out for the SOLIX F3800 power station but still want some solid home backup power, you’ll want to consider the SOLIX F2000 Portable Power Station and its bundles that start from $1,199 shipped. Coming down off its usual $1,999 full price, over 2024 we’ve mainly seen it have price cuts to $1,299 and $1,399, falling twice before to $1,099 and only once to the $999 low on the day of Cyber Monday. You can score it today at the third-lowest price we have tracked overall, which still gives you a solid $800 in savings while electrifying your life with a reliable unit. You’ll also find it matches the price over at Amazon, after clipping the on-page $800 off coupon.

Whether you’re prepping to handle sudden blackouts over winter or just stocking up for adventures away from home, Anker’s SOLIX F2000 has your back with its 2,048Wh LiFePO4 capacity and 2,400W output power (surging up to 3,600W to tackle higher-power appliances). There are 12 versatile output ports to utilize here, including an exclusive RV port for those traveling by way of a motor home. It can reach an 80% battery recharge in 1.4 hours after being plugged into a standard wall outlet, or you can connect it to its 1,000W maximum solar input to get the same amount of juice in up to 2.5 hours. You’ll also get extra efficiency built right in as the smart AC ports work with its internal systems to switch into a power-saving mode for energy conservation that extends its lifespan and prevents waste.

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Murf’s Class 3 Higgs Fat-Tire e-bike with 50-mile range hits new $1,916 low in holiday 20% off sitewide sale

For the holidays this year, Murf E-bikes is offering a sitewide 20% discount across its e-bike lineup. One of the more popular e-bikes from under the brand’s flag is the Higgs Step-Thru and Step-Over Fat-Tire e-bikes that are down at $1,916 shipped after the 20% discount is automatically applied at checkout. Normally $2,395, with rare discounts coming in across the year, we’ve mainly seen this model brought down between $2,095 and $2,195, though we did see a few price cuts further to $1,995 as well. During this sale, you’re looking at a solid $479 slashed off the tag, beating out all this year’s discounted rates for a new low price.

Murf’s Higgs e-bike offers a more versatile rider range from 4-foot-11 inches to 6-foot-four inches, allowing smaller biking enthusiasts to hop aboard comfortably. Its five levels of pedal assistance support you up to 25 MPH top speeds for up to 50 miles on a single charge (30 miles when only cruising using the throttle) – all powered by the 500W motor (750W peak) and 52V battery. There are some solid features here too to further enhance your riding experience, like the 4-inch fat tires for better stability, 600-lumen headlight powered by “3 high-power LEDs” for rides at darker times, Tektro hydraulic disc brakes, an integrated cargo rack with 100-pound payload, and an upgraded high-resolution display.

***Note: The prices of the following e-bikes have had the 20% discount factored in below.

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Greenworks 80V 16-inch cordless electric chainsaw

Greenworks’ 80V 16-inch cordless electric chainsaw tackles firewood duties at $224 Amazon low

We’re seeing a quality selection of Greenworks electric tools getting prices slashed by up to 32% at the moment at Amazon, with the brand’s 80V 16-inch Cordless Electric Chainsaw with 2.0Ah battery down at $223.99 shipped. Priced at $280, with rates keeping more down between $252 and $263 recently (especially during Black Friday/Cyber Monday), you’ll be able to expand your arsenal here with a solid 20% markdown, saving you $56 and landing it at the lowest price we have tracked on Amazon.

With winter having officially arrived, there will be plenty of firewood gathering going on through the next handful of months, and what better way to be prepared than having a reliable means to fell and cut up trees to keep your loved ones warm? With the included 2.0Ah battery, you’ll get 100 cuts (rated for 4×4 lumber) on a single charge, with a 16-inch bar and chain that effortlessly cuts through trees and limbs up to 30 inches in diameter. Its brushless motor stacks up to a 45CC gas model, though you won’t have to bother with annoying pull-strings thanks to the push-button start. Maintenance has been simplified with a pro-mounted chain tensioning feature while the auto oiler ensures consistent lubrication for continuous use.

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Govee smart electric composter

Cut down on food waste while making low-cost fertilizer with Govee’s smart electric composter at $265

The official Govee Amazon storefront is offering its new Smart Electric Composter for $264.99 shipped, after clipping the on-page $50 off coupon and redeeming the on-page 10% promo code. Normally this new device would run you $500, with only two previous discounts on the books so far, the first dropping things to the $250 low upon its launch back at the end of October and the other taking things to $260 during Black Friday. Today, you can score it to start recycling food scraps at the third-lowest price we have tracked, just $15 above the all-time low.

Composting at home is a great way to cut down on food waste while also improving the soil you use for your gardens and potted plants. This new release from Govee is making things far easier with the added benefit of smart home functionality, helping you keep records of your disposal routines on top of creating a low-cost fertilizer for vital plant growth. It can all be accessed and monitored through your smartphone or by connecting it to Alexa, Google Assistant, and/or Siri for hands-free voice control. Odors associated with traditional composts won’t be of any concern here either, with the device’s two changeable filters preventing smells during its cycles. It also offers three operating modes and a fully array of safety notifications for when anything goes wrong.

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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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BYD overtakes Tesla as China’s EV giants dominate global sales

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China’s EV automakers have surged ahead of the competition in global EV sales, and a new report shows just how far ahead they are.

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) just dropped its third annual Global Automaker Rating, showing that Chinese carmakers dominate the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) space. China now accounts for over 11 million EVs sold annually – over half of global EV sales.

Its massive domestic market has helped Chinese automakers build serious momentum. They’ve scaled up, improved tech, and are now setting the pace globally. Companies like Geely and SAIC have already hit 50% EV sales share, meeting their 2025 targets a full year early. In fact, Chinese automakers took the top five spots for ZEV class coverage, and five out of the top six for EV sales share.

Meanwhile, automakers in the US and Europe are trying to catch up. But they’re facing a dual challenge of falling behind on tech while navigating shaky regulatory environments.

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The report also confirmed a big milestone: In 2024, BYD officially surpassed Tesla in global battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales for the first time. BYD’s BEV sales jumped 25%, and its combined BEV and plug-in hybrid sales climbed an impressive 47% year-over-year. Still, both BYD and Tesla remain in the “Leaders” category.

Automakers boosted energy efficiency, charging speed, and driving range thanks to newer, high-performance models.

“Our assessment revealed widespread improvement in BEV technology performance across the industry,” said Zifei Yang, ICCT’s global passenger vehicle lead. “GM and Honda made significant advancements by introducing high-performance models to their previously limited offerings, while companies like Geely, Chang’an, and Chery improved substantially with new high-performance EV lines.”

India’s Tata Motors also hit a turning point. For the first time, it graduated from ICCT’s “laggard” group to “transitioner,” thanks to new EVs and big moves on battery recycling and repurposing. While Japanese and South Korean automakers are still lagging behind, Honda and Nissan are inching forward. Honda launched its first US BEV, and Nissan finally clarified its ZEV targets.

One newer addition to this year’s report: a green steel metric. Since steel is the second-largest source of emissions in vehicle manufacturing (after batteries), ICCT now tracks which automakers are cutting emissions in the supply chain. European brands like Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and VW earned high marks for sourcing renewable-powered green steel.

ICCT’s CEO, Drew Kodjak, summed it up: “The rapid evolution of the EV market in China has created technological and manufacturing advantages for companies there. For the wider global auto industry, this is no longer just about meeting future goals – it’s about remaining competitive today in a market that’s charging up.”

The full Global Automaker Rating, covering 21 major automakers, is now live on ICCT’s website.

Read more: EV prices dipped in May – and Tesla Model Y led the slide

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Bloomberg just released the most embarrassing report about Tesla, Waymo, and self-driving

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Bloomberg has just released an embarrassingly bad report about the self-driving space, in which it claimed Tesla has an advantage over Waymo by misrepresenting data.

There are currently many eyes on Tesla’s imminent launch of its “robotaxi” service in Austin, Texas.

We have just published a new report today to highlight how the launch is a game of smoke and mirrors, meant to reframe the optics of Tesla’s self-driving effort following years of broken promises.

At the same time, Bloomberg Intelligence released its own report, claiming that Tesla is ahead in self-driving technology, but the firm misrepresented data to support its claim.

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The report compares Tesla’s and Waymo’s self-driving efforts, going so far as to claim that “Tesla is closer to vehicle autonomy than peers.”

Here are the two main charts that Bloomberg circulated from the report:

The problem is that the report is misleading by comparing completely different data.

Steve Man, the Bloomberg Intelligence analyst behind the report, based his report on Tesla’s own quarterly misleading “Autopilot Safety Report.”

The report is widely considered to be unserious for several main reasons:

  • Tesla bundles all miles from its vehicles using Autopilot and FSD technology, which are considered level 2 ADAS systems that require driver attention at all times. Drivers consistently correct the systems to avoid accidents.
  • Tesla Autopilot, which is standard on all Tesla vehicles, is primarily used on highways, where accidents occur at a significantly lower rate per mile compared to city driving.
  • Tesla only counts events that deploy an airbag or a seat-belt pretensioner. Fender-benders, curb strikes, and many ADAS incidents never appear, keeping crash counts artificially low.
  • Finally, Tesla’s handpicked data is compared to NHTSA’s much broader statistics that include all collision events, including minor fender benders.

All these facts combined render the comparison between Tesla’s accident rate using “Autopilot technology” and NHTSA’s US average completely useless.

Yet, Bloomberg decided not only to use it but also to compare it to Waymo’s data to claim that “Tesla is 10 times safer”:

The problem with this is similar to the comparison with the US average, as the Waymo data includes all police-reported incidents, which is a much wider net than Tesla’s data, in addition to the previously mentioned issues.

To highlight how big a potential discrepancy there is in the data, NHTSA underscored in a report last year how Tesla is not aware of many crashes involving Autopilot and that only 18% of police-reported crashes involve airbag deployment:

Gaps in Tesla’s telematic data create uncertainty regarding the actual rate at which vehicles operating with Autopilot engaged are involved in crashes. Tesla is not aware of every crash involving Autopilot even for severe crashes because of gaps in telematic reporting. Tesla receives telematic data from its vehicles, when appropriate cellular connectivity exists and the antenna is not damaged during a crash, that support both crash notification and aggregation of fleet vehicle mileage. Tesla largely receives data for crashes only with pyrotechnic deployment, which are a minority of police reported crashes. A review of NHTSA’s 2021 FARS and Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS) finds that only 18 percent of police-reported crashes include airbag deployments.

Knowing full well the comparison is not fair and completely misrepresents the situation, the usual Tesla stock pumpers on X widely shared Bloomberg’s misleading report positively, and even CEO Elon Musk shared the misleading data:

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This is embarrassing for Bloomberg. It’s such a blatant error and misrepresentation that it is suspicious. They should issue a correction right away.

Tesla fanboys are now pushing this to try to prove that Tesla’s robotaxi is safe to launch amid Tesla doing everything it can to hide its self-driving crash data ahead of the launch. This is a dangerous report from Bloomberg.

Additionally, it’s not just the primary claim regarding the accident rate that is misleading. The report also contains several glaring errors.

In this chart, Bloomberg claims that Tesla is at “3 billion miles of data collected since launched”:

It looks like they simply use Tesla’s “cumulative miles driven with FSD (Supervised)”, which includes driver supervision, and the driver remains responsible for correcting FSD at all times.

In comparison, they talk about 22 million miles for Waymo. It looks like Bloomberg only used Waymo’s rider-only mileage in San Francisco, which is currently at 22 million miles, but when accounting all markets, Waymo is currently at more than 71 million miles:

It’s not clear why they would only use mileage in San Francisco for Waymo when they used Tesla’s global customer FSD mileage for Tesla.

Again, these are also “rider-only” miles, which means that there are only people riding inside the Waymo vehicles, compared to Tesla’s mileage being completely supervised by customer-drivers at all times.

We simply don’t know how many “rider-only” miles Tesla has, since it only started with one or two cars in Austin over the last few weeks. It is likely to have no more than a few hundred or a few thousand miles.

Regardless, it’s completely nonsensical to claim that Tesla is “ahead of its peers” in self-driving, especially Waymo, based on this report.

Tesla is currently only trying to launch something that Waymo has been doing for years.

The other argument the report attempts to make is that Tesla’s “self-driving” vehicles are approximately 7 times cheaper than Waymo’s.

Again, the problem is that Tesla’s vehicles are not self-driving. Tesla has yet to prove that, and that’s why it is using “plenty of teleoperation” in this launch in Austin. Mapping, optimizing for geo-fenced area, and teleoperations are the real limiting factors here. Not the cost of the vehicles.

Suppose Tesla has anything less than a 100-to-1 vehicle-to-teleoperator ratio. In that case, its system is not profitably scalable and I wouldn’t be surprised if it has a 1-to-1 ratio for the foreseeable future – at least on its current hardware.

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CNBC Daily Open: The Israel-Iran conflict continues but markets seem unfazed

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CNBC Daily Open: The Israel-Iran conflict continues but markets seem unfazed

Smoke billows from an explosion at the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) building in Tehran on June 16, 2025.

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The U.S. stock market rose and oil prices retreated amid news that Iran wants a ceasefire with Israel. As early as the first days of Israel’s strikes, Tehran reportedly asked several countries to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to call on Israel for an immediate ceasefire, NBC News reported, citing a Middle East diplomat with knowledge of the situation.

When asked at a news briefing Monday about the prospect of a ceasefire, however, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated he was not interested in one, according to NBC News. Netanyahu said Israel is “not backing down” from eliminating Iran’s nuclear program.

Regardless of how negotiations — or the lack thereof — play out, it’s clear that countries are placing renewed emphasis on defense. The U.S. Defense Department is turning to artificial intelligence to bolster its forces, announcing on Monday a one-year contract with OpenAI “to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.” 

Amid the Monday developments regarding armed conflict and defense considerations, the Trump Organization announced a mobile phone plan called Trump Mobile and a smartphone, clad in gold and emblazoned with an American flag, dubbed “T1.” Putting aside iffy ethical issues about the sitting U.S. president lending his name to consumer products, their unveiling seemed ill-timed and tone deaf. Perhaps the reception over Trump Mobile was spotty.

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Markets recover on hopes of containment
U.S. stocks rose Monday on news that Iran is reportedly seeking a ceasefire with Israel. The S&P 500 was up 0.94%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.75% and the Nasdaq Composite jumped 1.52%. Europe’s Stoxx 600 index added 0.36%. Some analysts, however, are warning that global investors may be underpricing the impact of a conflict between Israel and Iran.

Safe-haven assets dip
In another sign the markets are shrugging off the Israel-Iran conflict — which continued for the fourth consecutive day — both safe-haven assets and oil prices dipped Monday. At the end of the trading day stateside, spot gold prices fell 1.03%, while the dollar index dipped 0.07%. Meanwhile, U.S. crude fell 1.66% to settle at $71.77 and international benchmark Brent lost 1.35% to close at $73.23 a barrel.

‘Golden share’ in U.S. Steel
Shares of U.S. Steel rallied 5.1% Monday after Trump issued an executive order on Friday that allowed the firm and Nippon Steel to finalize their merger so long as they sign a national security agreement with the U.S. government. U.S. Steel said Friday that the agreement, which both companies have signed, includes a golden share for the U.S government, which would give it veto power over many decisions.

OpenAI wins contract from Defense Department
OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million one-year contract to provide the U.S. Defense Department with artificial intelligence tools, the latter announced Monday. It’s the first contract with OpenAI listed on the Department of Defense’s website. In December, OpenAI said it would collaborate with defense technology startup Anduril to deploy advanced AI systems for “national security missions.”

Trump Organization enters telecommunications
The Trump Organization, a company owned by the current U.S. President, on Monday announced a mobile phone plan and a $499 smartphone set to launch in September. The company’s new foray into telecommunications mainly comprises a licensing agreement. On Friday, the president reported that he had made more than $8 million in 2024 from various licensing agreements.

[PRO] What would it take for markets to react?
Equity and energy markets appeared to shake off concerns of a wider conflict in the Middle East on Monday, reversing some of the moves from late last week. Such a response to geopolitical conflict is not unusual, according to one strategist, who explained what it would take for markets to feel the effects of the hostilities.

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U.S. President Donald Trump raises a fist as he steps off of Air Force One upon arrival at Calgary International Airport, before the start of the G7 summit, in Alberta, Canada, June 15, 2025.

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As G7 leaders meet, allies ask: Is Trump with us or against us?

As leaders of the world’s largest advanced economic powers gather in Canada for this year’s Group of Seven summit, ongoing trade instability and turmoil in Ukraine and the Middle East are set to dominate talks.

With uncertainty over those major issues largely arising from the White House’s economic and foreign policy, allies are likely to ask whether Trump stands with them, or against them on major geopolitical points.

Asked if he planned to announce any trade pacts at the summit as he left the White House on Sunday, Trump said: “We have our trade deals. All we have to do is send a letter, ‘This is what you’re going to have to pay.’ But I think we’ll have a few, few new trade deals,” in comments reported by The Associated Press.

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