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Our Green Deals today are divided between some fresh new discounts and extended Memorial Day savings, headlined by Anker’s eufy E15 and E18 Robot Lawn Mowers that now $300 off and coming with a free Indoor Floor Lamp ($100 value) starting from $1,500. There’s also the EVOLV PRO-R V2 Electric Scooter that is back at its $2,099 low, as well as discounts on two counterpart models. We’ve also got two extended sales, the first being from Anker SOLIX (minus the free gifts and extra savings), with up to 55% taken off power stations for a few days, like the F2000 Portable Power Station starting at $1,199, among others. There’s also Aventon’s continued EV deals with up to $400 in savings on its legacy models, like the Level 2 Commuter e-bike at $1,599. Plus, there’s all the rest of the hangover Green Deals and ongoing Memorial Day EV sales in the links at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s Father’s Day savings on Navee’s new ST3 and GT3 series of e-scooters, ECOVACS’ Goat RTK robot mower discounts, and more.

– and don’t forget to browse our Memorial Day EV hub for the hangover savings while they last.

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’s new eufy E15 and E18 robot mowers with pure vision FSD navigation now $300 off with free gift starting from $1,500

Coming from Anker’s official sub-brand, eufy, we’re seeing increased savings alongside a free ambient lighting gift when purchasing either the new E15 Robot Lawn Mower at $1,499.99 shipped or the E18 Robot Lawn Mower at $1,699.99 shipped, after removing the $200 off code and using the promo code RTLM200 at checkout for $300 off on both models. Regularly $1,800 and $2,000 each, this is $300 off the new post-tariff price hikes and matching the best we have tracked since launch deals, with things beating out the $200 discount we’re seeing at Amazon. On top of the cash savings, you’ll also receive a free eufy Indoor Floor Lamp ($100 value) along with your purchase.

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These are the latest and most advanced eufy robot mowers, trading in the reliance on boundary wires and RTK stations in favor of pure vision FSD tech with high-precision cameras and advanced AI that guides it around every inch of your yard, with the E15 model tackling up to 0.2 acres on a single charge and the E18 model going longer for up to 0.3 acres. According to the brand, you’ll only have a “5-minute setup” after taking it out of the box, which is done through its companion app, which also provides a full array of smart controls afterwards, letting you adjust settings, monitor its progress, and manage multi-zone areas via the 3D maps that it generates as works throughout your yard.

The 3D perception system on eufy’s E15 & E18 robot mowers detects and avoids collisions with everyday obstacles that it may come across, even in complex garden environments, while the smart coverage detection “guarantees no area is left uncut.” Those with pets or regular wildlife running around can also rest assured, as its systems will ensure their safety while in operation. You’ll be able to set its cutting height between 25mm to 75mm, with it operating at a quieter 56dB level and able to handle up to 40% inclines without concern. Beyond the controls you’ll have through your smartphone, the robot can also detect rainfall and/or when the sun sets, activating its automatic station return function. On top of that, there’s even the security system that activates an alarm when removed from its set work area while providing you with GPS tracking to hunt it down.

EVOLV PRO-R V2 electric scooter

Score $400 off EVOLV’s 50-mile trekking PRO-R V2 e-scooter with dual 1,400W motors at $2,099

EVOLV is currently offering three of its e-scooters at up to $400 off, with the largest discount being on the Pro-R V2 Electric Scooter that is down at $2,099 shipped, after using the on-page promo code for $400 off. The promo code is bringing the costs down from its usual $2,499 tag, which we last saw included in the brand’s Spring Sale back in March. Sadly, the Pro V2 counterpart is sold out, but you can pick up this upgraded variant with the biggest price cut we have seen at the lowest price we have tracked.

EVOLV’s PRO-R V2 electric scooter comes as the upgraded model to the PRO V2, providing far more power for greater incline tackling and traveling times. It’s been equipped with dual 1,400W motors that peak at 3,600W, as well as a 60V 25Ah battery, delivering 44 MPH top speeds for up to 50 miles on a single charge.

Along with its monstrous performance specs, you’ll also have a heightened riding experience thanks to it coming stocked with front and rear spring suspension, front and rear hydraulic disc brakes, a front fender light, a taillight, running lights under its deck, turn signal lights, an IP54 water-resistance rating, and a smart center display – all with a foldable design for easy storage and transport when not in use.

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Anker SOLIX power stations

Anker extends Memorial Day pricing with up to 55% continued discounts on power stations from $120

Anker has extended its SOLIX Memorial Day pricing as flash offers running through May 29, continuing the new low prices on its F3800 Plus power station and bundles, as well as the best direct post-launch pricing on its EverFrost 2 58L electric cooler. We’re also seeing plenty of solid deals on its smaller backup power solutions, like the F2000 Portable Power Station deals that start from $1,199 shipped for the standalone unit. Normally priced at $1,999 in full, you can save $800 off that rate while these savings last. While we did see it go as low as $999 back during Black Friday sales, this is still a sold 40% markdown off the going rate, matching its Christmas pricing at the third-lowest price we have tracked and also matching in price at Amazon.

Among the larger backup solutions from Anker and a solid mid-tier option to keep devices and appliances going while out of the house or at home during emergency blackouts, the SOLIX F2000 power station carries a 2,048Wh LiFePO4 capacity that can be expanded to 4,096Wh with an expansion battery (bundle options below). It dishes out steady power at up to 2,400W and is capable of surging as high as 3,600W for larger needs. There are 12 output ports to cover your needs, with one even being a TT-30 port for RV connections.

You can regain 80% of its battery in 1.4 hours by plugging it into a standard wall outlet, with it also boasting a 1,000W max solar input that would yield the same amount in 2.5 hours. There’s also the option to connect it to your car’s auxiliary port, as well as the usual array of smart controls available through its companion app.

Anker’s SOLIX F2000 bundle deals:

To check out the other deals on Anker’s C1000, C800, C300, and C200 stations, be sure to browse our original coverage here.

Aventon Level 2 Commuter e-bike

Aventon’s extended Memorial Day savings take up to $400 off legacy e-bikes starting from $1,399

Aventon has extended its Memorial Day savings for a while longer, taking up to $400 off its legacy e-bikes in order to make room for its massive lineup of new smart e-bikes. Among the ongoing discounts, we wanted to focus on the previous flagship model, the Level 2 Commuter e-bike that is down at $1,599 shipped. This EV carries an $1,899 price tag when not benefitting from price cuts, which we’ve mostly seen being kept down at $1,699 and $1,599 during sales, though we have seen it as low as $1,299 in the past, which was last seen in a Best Buy one-day-sale back in March 2024. Grabbing this model while the savings lasts scores you $300 off the tag, giving you the third-lowest price we have tracked and also matching with its Black Friday and Christmas pricing. Head below for more on this e-bike and its counterparts seeing discounts.

Aventon’s Level series of e-bikes carry the mantle of the brand’s flagship models, with the Level 2 Commuter here having passed that title off to the new smart generation Level 3, but still provides some reliable mobility support through your daily travels. The sleek and streamlined frame arrives equipped with a 500W rear hub motor (peaking at 750W) and pairs with the integrated 14.0Ah battery in order to reach speeds as high as 28 MPH for up to 60 miles of travel on a single charge. The throttle can only get you up to 20 MPH, while activating the five PAS levels provides access to the faster 28 MPH speeds, as well as the 60-mile travel distance – all supported by a torque sensor too.

It comes with other solid features for the price, like the smoother rides you’ll get with the front suspension fork or the added safety when cruising alongside other vehicles, thanks to the taillights offering brake lighting. There’s also the integrated headlight, Shimano 8-speed derailleur, fenders over both tires, and the rear-mounted cargo rack, and the backlit LCD screen for real-time data and setting adjustments.

To check out the deals on Aventon’s other legacy e-bikes, be sure to browse our original coverage here.

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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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OpenAI’s spending spree is powering the tech industry. Oracle is the latest winner

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OpenAI's spending spree is powering the tech industry. Oracle is the latest winner

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Oracle‘s historic stock surge this week marked the latest chapter in the story of a single private company that’s dominated the tech landscape for almost three years: OpenAI.

In Oracle’s blowout earnings report, OpenAI was a key catalyst due to a massive amount of money the artificial intelligence startup expects to spend on cloud computing technology in the coming years.

It’s becoming a familiar theme.

A week earlier, Broadcom shares popped almost 10% after the chipmaker and software vendor said it forged a $10 billion deal to build custom processors for a customer that analysts said was OpenAI.

Among tech’s megacaps, Microsoft has the closest link to OpenAI, having invested more than $13 billion in the company and serving as its key cloud partner for six years. Nvidia’s march to becoming the world’s most valuable company is intimately tied to OpenAI, as its graphics processing units (GPUs) sit at the heart of large language model development and are essential for running big AI workloads.

Those four companies alone — Oracle, Broadcom, Microsoft and Nvidia — have seen their combined market caps swell by over $4.5 trillion since OpenAI burst into public view with the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. And those gains are a big reason why the Nasdaq and S&P 500 have sustained sharp rallies, with both benchmarks closing at a record on Friday.

OpenAI’s outsized influence has some market experts understandably concerned. It remains a cash-burning startup that’s governed by a nonprofit parent.

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The company’s $500 billion valuation is supported by a small number of investors betting that OpenAI will prevail in the face of hefty competition from the likes of Meta and Google as well as other highly-valued newcomers like Anthropic and any number of players out of China.

“While we love ChatGPT, OpenAI is still a not for profit limited in its ability to raise capital,” said Gil Luria, an analyst at D.A. Davidson, in an interview with CNBC.

Luria, who recommends holding Oracle shares, dug into the company’s numbers as the stock was in the midst of a 36% jump on Wednesday, its biggest gain since 1992.

In its quarterly earnings report late Tuesday, Oracle said it signed four multibillion-dollar contracts with three different customers during the period. One of those was with OpenAI, which said previously that it agreed to develop 4.5 gigawatts of U.S. data center capacity with Oracle.

Investors knew, based on a filing with the SEC in June, that Oracle signed a $30 billion cloud contract with an unnamed company that’s set to begin in two years. CNBC confirmed a Wall Street Journal report from Wednesday that OpenAI has agreed to spend $300 billion in computing power over about five years, starting in 2027.

In the two trading days after its historic pop, Oracle’s stock retreated, dropping more than 6% on Thursday and another 5% on Friday, as other investors began sharing Luria’s concerns.

The new revelations about OpenAI’s massive cloud commitment provided a clearer sense of Oracle’s expanding backlog. Oracle said its performance obligations, a measure of contracted revenue that has not yet been recognized, surged 359% from a year earlier to to $455 billion.

Luria said the concentration of Oracle’s backlog with a single customer “significantly reduces” enthusiasm, particularly if “more than 90% came from OpenAI.”

Oracle didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Altman’s open wallet

OpenAI has made big commitments to several other cloud providers, including CoreWeave and Google, and reportedly plans to put $19 billion toward Stargate, a project President Donald Trump announced in January to bolster AI infrastructure investments in the U.S. Stargate is a joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, which is separately leading a planned $40 billion investment in OpenAI.

Luria said the takeaway is that “Sam Altman has the gumption to sign very large checks without needing to worry about whether those can ever be cashed.”

OpenAI declined to comment.

While OpenAI will be losing money for the foreseeable future, the company is expecting revenue growth to continue at a breakneck pace. After hitting $10 billion in annual recurring revenue in June, OpenAI is on pace for that number to reach $125 billion by 2029, CNBC confirmed.

And on Thursday, OpenAI got a step closer to formalizing its transition to a for-profit entity. The company said its nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the business and will own an equity stake of more than $100 billion as the commercial entity becomes a public benefit corporation.

OpenAI needs the restructuring to take place by year-end in order to secure the entirety of the $40 billion from its latest financing round.

For Oracle, the massive increase in OpenAI spending has landed the company within shouting distance of the trillion-dollar club, which currently includes eight tech peers. Oracle’s market cap climbed to about $930 billion on Wednesday before retreating to $830 billion to close the week.

Byron Deeter, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, told CNBC’s “Money Movers” that he’s still skeptical of Oracle’s prospects in AI. The company has spent years trying to play catchup in cloud infrastructure, where it trails Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

Deeter said Oracle remains a “B-level hyperscaler” without meaningful positions in AI software or chips.

“Two days ago, we all thought Oracle was essentially nowhere in AI,” Deeter said, following the earnings report. “They announce this mega-deal, people think they’re the next great hyperscaler – and I don’t buy that part.”

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Electric haul trucks could save Fortescue over $400 million in fuel per year

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Fortescue is marching towards zero emissions as it invests in new, zero-emission mining equipment options across its global operations. And that investment? It’s already paying off. One analyst says the company’s saving almost $400 million in fuel costs alone. Each year.

From massive, Liebherr-built electric haul trucks and excavators to more than $400 million in Chinese equipment from XCMG, Fortescue is putting its money where its mouth is and making real efforts to decarbonize its global mining operations.

“We’re moving rapidly to decarbonize our Pilbara iron ore operations and eliminate our Scope 1 and 2 terrestrial emissions by 2030. To achieve this target, we will need to swap out hundreds of pieces of diesel mining equipment at the end of their life with zero emissions alternatives,” said Fortescue Metals Chief Executive Officer, Dino Otranto, when the XCMG order was announced. “As the global mining industry continues to evolve, we’re proud to be at the forefront of driving innovation in value adding green technology and showing the world that industry can decarbonize.”

Those efforts aren’t just cutting back on air pollution. Electric equipment assets are helping to keep the company’s workers safe and healthy, too. What’s more, they’re saving the company money – they’re already seeing $300-400 million in fuel savings annually.

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Liebherr T264 electric haul truck

Fortescue’s 6MW electric vehicle charger stuns the EV and mining industries
Liebherr T264; via Fortescue.

The Liebherr T264 electric haul trucks now working for Fortescue defy common sense notions of size, scale, and power. Each truck tips the scales at 176 tonnes (194 tons) and can haul more than 240 tonnes (265 tons) of payload thanks to powerful electric motors and a big-as-a-house-sized 3.2 MWh battery that can be recharged in a little over 30 minutes by Liebherr’s proprietary 6 MW DC fast charger.

If you could keep the car from exploding, that 6 MW (that’s 6,000 kW to you and me) charger could zap a Tesla Model Y Long Range’s 75 kWh battery in some thirty (30) seconds.

“Fortescue has ordered 360 of (T264 battery electric haul trucks) as part of a $4 billion deal with Liebherr to electrify operations at its enormous iron ore mines,” says Gavin Mooney, general manager at Australian energy software platform, Kaluza. “Fuel and energy costs are Fortescue’s biggest operating costs as well as largest source of emissions. By electrifying operations like this it will be able to kill two birds with one stone.”

Battery electric vehicles have moved millions of tons of material at Fortescue mines over the last two years alone, and continue to keep the minerals moving with minimal less impact to the environment.

Electrek’s Take

With billions of dollars on the line and pressure to reduce carbon emissions coming from all sides, it should come as no surprise that the race is on to bring practical, electric, and autonomous heavy mining equipment to market. At CES 2024, electric equipment from Hyundai, Bobcat, Volvo CE, and Caterpillar garnered lots of attention with their innovative concepts, and analysts like IDTechEx estimate that a single 150-ton haul truck can use over $850,000 worth of fuel in a single year.

Meanwhile, big electric haul trucks like this 240 ton unit from Caterpillar can, in certain use cases with high amounts of regenerative braking, operate without any significant cost to recharge. At that point, the reduced maintenance and downtime of BEVs compared to diesel vehicles becomes icing on the TCO cake.

We spoke to Fortescue Zero executives a few months ago on a special interview episode of Quick Charge. Check it out (above) then let us know what you think of Fortescue’s fuel savings in the comments.

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Volvo Construction Equipment powers world's first all-electric deconstruction at Siemens site

This world’s first fully electric deconstruction site is being hailed as a landmark in sustainable urban development — and it’s powered by Siemens technology and Volvo Group’s battery-electric trucks and heavy equipment.

The deconstruction project (that’s kind of like a really careful demolition) marks the first full-scale electric deconstruction of its kind, and serves as important proof that with the right partners and the will to do it, urban construction projects like this can be carried out sustainably, today – and all without fossil fuels. It’s all part of Siemens’ €500 million technology campus redevelopment, the deconstruction site in Erlangen, Germany, and marks a pivotal step in advancing sustainable urban transformation and circular construction practices.

In collaboration with the demolition specialists at Metzner Recycling, Volvo CE deployed a fully electric fleet of equipment assets specially chosen to deliver quiet, precision demolition across the 25,000 cubic meter job site.

As well as deconstruction tasks, the electric machines helped sort and process approximately 12,800 tons of construction waste, with 96% recycled into raw materials for future use – supporting the shift towards circular materials management.

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“At Siemens Real Estate, we are committed to pushing the boundaries of sustainable construction and demolition,” explains Christian Franz, Head of Sustainability at Siemens Real Estate. “This groundbreaking electric deconstruction project boasts an impressive 96% recycling rate and is a testament to our commitment to achieving excellence in sustainability … this project illustrates how partnerships and determination can create a lasting impact and help shape a more sustainable real estate industry.”

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In addition the construction equipment was hauled into the site by Volvo Truck’s battery electric semi trucks, enabling emission-free operations from demolition, to crushing, materials processing, and transport.

Electrek’s Take

With a full line of electric wheel loaders, excavators, articulated haul trucks – even drum rollers and off-grid charging solutions to haul around with their electric semi trucks – Volvo is in a great position to take advantage of increasingly restrictive noise and emission regulations across Europe.

It’s too bad they’re suing California to be able to pollute more.

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