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Today’s Green Deals are headlined by the very first chance at cash savings on ECOVACS’ new Goat O1000 RTK Robot Lawn Mower that first debuted at CES 2025 and is now down at $900. Right behind it we have the popular Anker PowerCore Reserve 60,000mAh Power Bank Station dropping down to $90, as well as the newer C200 and C300 power banks that are also seeing significant savings. There’s also Hiboy’s S2 Pro Electric Scooter that has dropped down further from last week’s pricing to $425, among other discounted models to choose from. Lastly, we have a rare price cut on Husqvarna’s Power Axe 350i 42V 18-inch Cordless Chainsaw Kit to $384 alongside a few other notable kit discounts. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals are in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s exclusive new low price on EcoFlow’s DELTA 2 power station, Aventon’s Level 2 e-bike discounts, 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.

ECOVACS’ new Goat O1000 RTK robot lawn mower sees its first discount to $900

We’re seeing the very first chance at savings over at Amazon on ECOVACS’ new Goat O1000 RTK Robot Lawn Mower that is dropping the price to $899.99 shipped, while also matching directly from the brand’s website. This model was only recently released following its unveiling at CES 2025 carrying a full $1,000 price tag, and it’s nice to see it already getting some cash savings in the early spring months ahead of those warmer days when plenty of folks will be much more concerned with getting their lawn care routines back to normal. You’re looking at a solid $100 discount here while the savings last, setting the bar for future discounts down the road.

First introduced at CES 2025, ECOVACS’ Goat O1000 is one among several new robot mowers from the brand, with this one more tailored for folks with smaller lawns up to 1/4-acres in size. It’s been given a compact and narrow 1.31-foot design to better fit into tighter spaces where normal mowers couldn’t go, complete with an IPX6 waterproof rating to stand up to unexpected weather changes. You’ll get remote smart controls via the companion app, with an editable 3D map that lets you “add, merge, split, or delete areas, giving you full control over your lawn layout,” along with the usual setting adjustments to tailor its performance for your grass’ needs.

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Equipped with advanced AI tech, the ECOVACS Goat O1000 robot mower sports RTK navigation (so no perimeter wires here) to keep track of where it’s been and where it needs to go, as well as integrated AIVI 3D obstacle avoidance – not just for everyday objects and debris it might come across, but also small animals too, even at night. It even has a LiDAR (3D-ToF) and a fisheye camera for better support, especially should it enter under heavily shaded areas where the satellites can’t directly find it. The TrueEdge mowing “smoothly follows along your set boundaries for zero-edge cutting, providing a clean, professional finish.” There’s also the LELS navigation that drives it in a U-shaped path for better efficiency and so that you won’t have to hop in for manual touch-ups in select spots.

Anker PowerCore Reserve 60,000mAh Power Bank Station

Anker’s 5-pound PowerCore Reserve 60,000mAh power bank station is a totable backup companion at $90

As part of its now live Big Spring Sale, Anker’s official Amazon storefront is offering its PowerCore Reserve 60,000mAh Power Bank Station for $89.99 shipped. Coming down off of its usual $150 price tag, it’s spent most of the last year keeping above $100, though we have been seeing more frequent drops to $90 since Black Friday sales, with 2025 seeing a fall per month along with several short-term Lightning deals. Today’s deal marks the second we’ve seen in March, coming in with a $60 price cut to the second-lowest price we have tracked – just $10 above the all-time low, which we haven’t seen again since Christmas sales. You’ll also find it matching in price directly from Anker’s website.

Anker’s PowerCore Reserve is a 5-pound totable companion for your out-of-house travels, whether you’re heading out of town on a trip or just getting through your day-to-day schedule. It starts off by offering up a 60,000mAh/192Wh battery capacity, with two USB-A ports and two USB-C ports that deliver up to 60W charging speeds. It’s even been equipped with a pop-up light on the top of its form factor that works great for camping trips, providing you with two brightness levels alongside an S.O.S button for emergencies. You’ll also have two options to recharge its battery – either via a wall outlet or connecting up to its 60W solar input maximum to take advantage of the sun’s rays.

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If you want to browse the brand’s lineup of SOLIX power stations that offer far more backup support for your camping sites, road trips, and home backup – be sure to check out the 57% off discounts happening during its Spring Sale running through March 31, including the amazing launch deals on the new F3800 Plus power station that have been extended and the newly added EverFrost 2 Electric Cooler discounts, among others.

Hiboy S2 Pro electric scooter

Hiboy’s S2 Pro e-scooter with regenerative brakes falls to $425 in Big Spring savings

As part of its Big Spring Sale, Amazon is now offering the Hiboy S2 Pro Electric Scooter for $424.99 shipped. You’ll usually find it sitting at a $650 rate here at Amazon while it carries a higher $736 tag direct from Hiboy, though we have been seeing it keep down at $450 throughout 2025 so far. While it has fallen lower in price in the past, especially during Christmas sales, you’re looking at the best rate we’ve tracked so far in the new year, with today’s deal putting $225 back in your pocket while equipping you with a reliable means to get through your commutes as the spring weather blooms.

An affordable means to enjoy your commutes around town, to school, and more, Hiboy’s S2 Pro e-scooter has been given an 11.6Ah battery for up to 25 miles of travel on a single charge while the 500W hub motor provides top speeds of 19 MPH. Momentum is even recycled to help extend that travel time thanks to the downhill and regenerative braking here, recharging the battery whenever you activate braking or coast down hills/slopes. It’s also been built with an IPX4 water-resistant design, complete with the folding body you’d expect of a scooter, as well as an LED headlight, taillight, and sidelights. You’ll have access to the full array of smart controls via its companion app too, allowing you to adjust settings and even remote lock the scooter when it’s not in use.

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Husqvarna Power Axe 350i 42V 18-inch Cordless Chainsaw kit

Husqvarna’s Power Axe 350i 42V 18-inch cordless chainsaw kit falls to $384

Amazon is offering the Husqvarna Power Axe 350i 42V 18-inch Cordless Chainsaw Kit for $383.99 shipped. Coming down off its usual $480 price tag, we don’t usually see too many discounts on this brand’s equipment, with it keeping up at its MSRP for most of 2025 so far, with one previous discount in January taking things to $449. While we have seen it go as low as $335 in 2023, over the last year it’s mostly kept above $399, with today’s deal being a 20% markdown that cuts $96 off the going rate, landing it among the lowest prices we have tracked – $49 above the all-time low.

Coming with an included battery and charger, which is rare as Husqvarna more often discounts its tool-only deals over kits and combo packages, the Power Axe chainsaw is a lightweight 18-inch model that houses a brushless motor for “more durability, high efficiency, and quiet operation.” It’s been given the brand’s X-cut chain that retains its sharpness for longer periods, as well as a tool-less tensioning system so you can make slack adjustments faster and without much effort. Its power can even be ramped up by 25% in its boost mode with a simple press of a button. You’ll also be able to switch out the battery for other tools in the brand’s 40V ecosystem.

Other notable Husqvarna electric lawn care deals:

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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 releases FSD v14, first major update in a year, here’s what it can do

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Tesla releases FSD v14, first major update in a year, here's what it can do

Tesla has started to release its (Supervised) Full Self-Driving (FSD) v14 update, its first significant update in a year, to customers.

Here are the full release notes:

In late 2024, Tesla began rolling out FSD v13 to owners with the latest HW4 computers installed in their vehicles.

It has been the last significant update to Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” program despite CEO Elon Musk again claiming that the automaker was on the verge of solving “unsupervised self-driving.”

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Tesla’s excuse for not releasing any significant update for almost a year was that the team was instead working on its “Robotaxi” service in Austin, Texas.

FSD v14 has been described as Tesla using what it learned from the Robotaxi program and rolling it into software for its consumer vehicles.

Musk has been hyping the update for the last few months. He first said it would come in September, but he revealed that Tesla found a “bug”, which delayed the release to late Monday night.

Tesla HW4 owners are now starting to download the update.

Here are the full release notes for FSD v14:

Tesla FSD v14 release notes

  • Added Arrival Options for you to select where FSD should park: in a Parking Lot, on the Street, in a Driveway, in a Parking Garage, or at the Curbside.
  • Added handling to pull over or yield for emergency vehicles (e.g. police cars, fire trucks, ambulances).
  • Added navigation and routing into the vision-based neural network for real-time handling of blocked roads and detours.
  • Added additional Speed Profile to further customize driving style preference.
  • Improved handling for static and dynamic gates.
  • Improved offsetting for road debris (e.g. tires, tree branches, boxes).
  • Improve handling of several scenarios, including unprotected turns, lane changes, vehicle cut-ins, and school buses.
  • Improved FSD’s ability to manage system faults and recover smoothly from degraded operation for enhanced reliability.
  • Added automatic narrow field washing to provide rapid and efficient front camera self-cleaning, and optimize aerodynamic wash at higher vehicle speeds.
  • Added alerting for residue build-up on the interior windshield that may impact front camera visibility. If affected, visit Service for cleaning!

Upcoming Improvements:

  • Overall smoothness and sentience
  • Parking spot selection and parking quality

Full Self-Driving (Supervised)

Under your supervision, Full Self-Driving (Supervised) can drive your Tesla almost anywhere. It will start from a parked position, make lane changes, select forks to follow your navigation route, navigate around other vehicles and objects, make left and right turns and park at your destination. You and anyone you authorize must use additional caution and remain attentive. It does not make your vehicle autonomous. Do not become complacent.

Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is enabled on your vehicle. To use the feature, press the Start Self-Driving button on the UI, or press the right scroll wheel button once. You can disable Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in Autopilot Settings.

UI Improvements

  • Start Self-Driving with a tap of the touchscreen from Park, or any time during your drive.
  • Adjust settings like the Speed Profile and Arrival Options directly from the Autopilot visualization on the center display.

Speed Profiles

FSD (Supervised) will now determine the appropriate speed based on a mix of driver profile, speed limit, and surrounding traffic.

  • Introduced new Speed Profile SLOTH, which comes with lower speeds & more conservative lane selection than CHILL.
  • Driver profile now has a stronger impact on behavior. The more assertive the profile, the higher the max speed.
  • Right scroll-wheel up/down now adjusts Speed Profile setting rather than your precise max speed offset selection in mph/kph.

Arrival Options

  • You can now select an arrival option such as Parking Lot, Street, Driveway, Parking Garage and Curbside for Robotaxi-style drop offs.
  • Your preferences for arrival options and preferred parking positions are persisted for each destination.
  • Our reasoning model will assess the suitable options for your destination and pick an intuitive default.

Brake Confirm

Brake Confirm for the Start Self-Driving button is now defaulted off. When disabled, Start Self-Driving will not require you to press and release the brake to confirm engagement.

You can enable Brake Confirm in Autopilot > Brake Confirm.

Electrek’s Take

This is exactly what we expected. Tesla is adding some of the features of Robotaxi, such as improved parking capabilities at your destination, and much-needed performance upgrades after a year of regression based on crowdsourced data.

As I previously stated, I expect at best a 2 to 3x improvement in miles between critical disengagement, which sounds great until you realize that that brings Tesla to a max 1,200 miles between critical disengagement and the automaker needs to be closer to 10,000 miles for a limited unsupervised ride-hailing service, and then 700,000 miles to be level 5 safer than humans as promised.

We will have to wait a few days, and ideally a few weeks, to gather enough data to gauge the significance of those improvements.

As usual, I like to point out that FSD would be truly impressive and likely a praised product if it were sold and marketed for what it is: a level 2 driver assistance system.

However, we have to compare it against what Tesla is selling and claims it will become: a level 4 fully autonomous driving system – something it is not.

FSD still requires driver attention at all times and can make very dumb and dangerous mistakes.

Furthermore, Tesla is clearly starting to reach the limits of HW4, even though it will likely need to ~10x performance from FSD v14. It means that, as Tesla already admitted with HW3, the automaker has sold “Full Self-Driving” on cars that don’t have the hardware to make it a reality.


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E-motorcycle maker Zero moving headquarters from the US to Europe

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Zero Motorcycles, one of the world’s leading Western electric motorcycle manufacturers, announced that it is relocating its global headquarters from California to the Netherlands. The move marks a major strategic shift for the company as it doubles down on Europe, which has long been its largest market for electric two-wheelers, despite the American company’s US base of operations.

According to Zero, the transition will bring key global functions together in a new European hub while maintaining its California location as the company’s long-term “Innovation Center” for R&D and engineering. The move allows the company to keep a toehold in the states while transferring its main operations to Europe.

The electric motorcycle maker says its US location will still support a team working on Zero’s powertrains and next-generation models, maintaining the company’s technological roots in the US as leadership and global operations move overseas.

“Zero has led the electric motorcycle category for nearly two decades,” said CEO Sam Paschel. “With Europe setting the pace for EV adoption, moving key headquarters functions into the Netherlands allows us to respond faster to customer needs and strengthen our global operations. This is about focus, discipline, and ensuring we lead the transformation of the powersports industry.”

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The decision follows a period of what Zero says is rapid expansion for the company in Europe, where the electric motorcycle maker has reported strong growth in both retail and fleet segments. With the Netherlands serving as a central hub, Zero aims to increase agility, streamline operations, and enhance collaboration with suppliers and distributors across the continent.

The move follows a pattern for Zero, which has seen an increasing reliance on overseas operations, from production to marketing and sales. While Zero originally touted its US-based manufacturing, its components and production have increasingly relied on Asian manufacturing, and recent partnerships have seen its most affordable models being produced nearly entirely by its Asian partners for marketing and sale by Zero.

But despite the global shift, Paschel emphasized that Zero remains committed to the US market. The company plans to continue working closely with its American dealers and investing in local sales and service infrastructure.

To support the transition, Zero’s primary shareholder has committed $50 million in new funding, which the company says will accelerate its transformation and reinforce its leadership in the electric motorcycle sector.

“Our brand, our technology, and our global reach give us unmatched credibility and capabilities,” Paschel added. “Tightly coordinating our global headquarters functions in Europe ensures we remain the clear leader in electric motorcycles and sets the stage for the most exciting chapter in the company’s history.”


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Trilogy Metals shares soar nearly 200% in premarket after U.S. takes stake in minerals explorer

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Trilogy Metals shares soar nearly 200% in premarket after U.S. takes stake in minerals explorer

US President Donald Trump, left, and Doug Burgum, US secretary of the interior, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025.

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Shares of U.S.-listed minerals explorer Trilogy Metals jumped as much as 205% in premarket trade on Tuesday, shortly after the White House said it would take a 10% stake in the Canadian company.

The stock was seen trading 183% higher in premarket deals at 9:54 a.m. London time (4:54 a.m. ET).

The White House on Monday announced a partnership with Trilogy Metals as part of a push to unlock domestic supplies of copper and other critical minerals in the Ambler mining district in Alaska.

The partnership included a $35.6 million investment, which makes the U.S. government a 10% shareholder in Trilogy Metals.

Trilogy Metals welcomed Trump’s decision to grant permits to enable the development of critical minerals in Alaska, saying the Ambler mining district is “home to some of the world’s richest known copper-dominant polymetallic deposits.”

The company said in a statement that Trump’s order, which reverses the Biden administration’s rejection of the Ambler Road project, “reflects a renewed federal commitment to responsible resource development in Alaska and highlights the Ambler Road as critical infrastructure under federal policy.”

It added that the move would help to secure domestic supply chains for minerals including copper, cobalt, zinc and lead, highlighting the importance of these resources in energy infrastructure, defense technologies and manufacturing.

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