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EV Realty just opened its flagship electric truck charging hub in San Bernardino, California, and it’s built for the kind of heavy-duty freight work that keeps supply chains moving.

Avinox is back with its next-generation e-bike drive systems, and if the numbers are anything to go by, the company is definitely targeting the higher performance end of the market.

Norway is doubling down on electric maritime transport in a big way, placing an order for 20 of Candela’s P-12 electric hydrofoil ferries in what’s being described as the largest deployment of its kind to date.

On today’s Tesla-tastic episode of Quick Charge, a TSLA bear thinks the stock is headed for a 60% slide before the year is out, Tesla launches a Supercharger configurator, and we find out what’s really going on at Elon’s proposed chip fab.

The UK just approved what will become its largest solar farm yet – and it’s a clear signal of where its energy strategy is headed.

Our mid-week Green Deals edition is packed and focused on EcoFlow, but that’s not to say the other deals we’ve collected for you today are any less exciting. First, we have EcoFlow’s latest Members’ Festival x Earth Day Mega Sale with up to 62% power station discounts, extra savings on solar generators, FREE gifts, and 3x EcoCredit rewards – all starting from $169. The brand has also just launched its 288Wh TRAIL Plus 300 DC Portable Compact Power Station (and two solar bundles) starting from $199, as well as offering a 24-hour flash sale on three units, like the 2,048Wh DELTA 2 Max Portable Power Station at $799, which is the best new price we have tracked aside from a Black Friday exclusive deal. We also have three EGO Multi-Head Combo bundles that give you a string trimmer + one of three secondary attachments at new lows, a spotlight on Lectric’s April Showers XP Trike2 bundles with up to $588 in FREE gear, an Eve Aqua Apple HomeKit Smart Water Controller deal worth considering for your spigots, and much more waiting for you below. And don’t forget about the other hangover deals at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s flash sale on the Segway G30P Electric Scooter to a new $500 low, Jackery’s 256Wh Explorer 240D power station at a new $129 low, 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.

Solid-state EV batteries have entered a “critical stage,” BYD’s chief scientist, Lian Yubo, said during a seminar this week.

Tesla has quietly switched on a public configurator for its Supercharger for Business program, and the numbers tell us exactly what it now costs a third party to buy into the network: $500,000 in hardware and roughly $940,000 all-in for a standard V4 8-stall site.

The tool also spits out ROI estimates that swing wildly by location — from a 4-year payback in San Francisco to 7 years in Manhattan — and effectively prices Tesla’s own cut at a flat $0.10/kWh.

Elon Musk claimed this week that Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” is so much safer than human drivers that it could save 90% of the roughly one million lives lost in car crashes globally each year — a 10X improvement in safety.

The problem is that Tesla has never released the data that would support anything close to that claim, and Musk is already using it to pre-frame the lawsuits Tesla is facing over FSD crashes as an unavoidable cost of progress.

The Boulder SUV concept is a preview of Hyundai’s upcoming body-on-frame vehicles set to rival the Ford Bronco, Jeep Wrangler, and Toyota Tacoma.

A newly introduced California bill could quietly reshape how passengers are carried on bicycles and e-bikes – and in the process, potentially outlaw one of the most popular features on many modern electric bikes.

Toyota’s updated electric SUV is now among the top-selling EVs in several markets, including Japan, the US, and parts of Europe.

Tesla stock is down roughly 20% year-to-date in 2026, and JPMorgan thinks the bleeding is far from over. Analyst Ryan Brinkman reiterated his Underweight rating this week and stuck with a $145 price target — implying another ~60% downside from where TSLA trades today.

The note landed days after Tesla disclosed a Q1 delivery miss and the largest single-quarter inventory build in company history.

In a rare bit of good news for the e-bike industry, manufacturers, importers, and advocacy groups have successfully fought off a potentially painful round of new tariffs on bicycles and e-bikes in the US.

Rove, a company founded to improve the EV charging experience by building “full service” EV charging centers with access to amenities you can use while charging, has now opened its second charging plaza in Costa Mesa, CA, and we got a sneak preview.

Used EV sales are picking up serious momentum in the US – and now there’s hard data to back it up.

Tesla has started rolling out Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3 to HW4 vehicles, and the headline change is under the hood: Tesla rewrote the AI compiler and runtime from scratch on MLIR, which the automaker says delivers a 20% faster reaction time.

The update, shipping as software version 2026.2.9.6, also brings a new parking spot pin on the map, better behavior around emergency vehicles and school buses, and Tesla’s first public acknowledgement that it’s leaning on MLIR — the compiler infrastructure built by Chris Lattner, who briefly led Tesla Autopilot back in 2017.

Ford is offering free EV chargers through its Power Promise program and discounting models by up to $9,000 this month.

The new Denza Z9 GT, or the world’s longest-range pure EV, as BYD claims, is headed to Europe, offering 5-minute fast charging and a WLTP range of nearly 500 miles.

We’ve got another jam-packed Green Deals for you today, filled with a bunch of new low prices. To start, Segway has launched a flash sale on its Max G30P Electric Scooter with up to 40 miles of travel that drops it to a new $500 low. Right behind that, we have the 256Wh/80,000mAh Jackery Explorer 240D Portable Compact Power Station hitting a new $129 low, as well as the Baseus S1 Pro Wireless Outdoor Solar Security 2-Cam Kit with sun-tracking solar panels and an expandable 16GB hub – all at a new $100 low. There are also two of EGO’s most advanced cordless electric pole saw and mower kits hitting their lowest prices in months, Anker’s EverFrost 2 Portable Electric Cooler at its best price since Cyber Monday, and much more waiting for you below. And don’t forget about the other hangover deals at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s 50% discount on the EVOLV TERRA e-scooter to a new $614.50 low, 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.

Specialized has unveiled its latest generation of urban electric bikes with the all-new Vado 3 and Vado 3 EVO, bringing a surprising amount of high-performance DNA from its trail-dominating electric mountain bikes into a more practical, everyday package.

Volkswagen is retiring the Touareg after a 23-year run, but the company is now looking into bringing it back as a purely electric luxury SUV.

Tesla is not actually going to build its own chip fab. Intel is going to do it for them.

That’s the real takeaway from Intel’s announcement today that it is joining the “Terafab” project alongside Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI — the $25 billion Austin chip factory Elon Musk unveiled with great fanfare last month.

A Tesla driver was found passed out behind the wheel of his car as it drove itself through busy streets in Vacaville, California. Police caught up with the vehicle and arrested the driver on suspicion of driving under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana.

It is the latest in a long string of incidents where Tesla owners have treated the automaker’s driver-assist systems as if they were a designated driver — and it keeps happening because Tesla keeps marketing them that way.