We’re starting off this week’s Green Deals by looking in on Aventon’s Spring Sale offers once again, this time focusing on the Level 2 Commuter e-bike that has dropped to $1,499 for the first time in a year. Next, we’ve secured an exclusive new low for our readers on EcoFlow’s DELTA 2 Portable Power Station that drops costs to $360, with a separate collection of EcoFlow Spring Sale flash offers running through the rest of the day, led by the DELTA Max 2000 Portable Power Station at $899, along with two others. Lastly, Anker has added its latest EverFrost 2 Electric Coolers (as well as extended its massive F3800 Plus savings) to its SOLIX Spring Sale lineup, with the 40L model down at $700 while the dual-zone 58L model is down at $900. Plus, all the other hangover Green Deals from last week are in the links at the bottom of the page, rounded up together in our Electrified Weekly coverage. Read more…

BYD just launched its new Tesla Model 3-sized electric sedan but at about half the cost. The sleek new Qin L EV is loaded with BYD’s “God’s Eye” smart driving tech and gets over 330 miles of driving range. Oh, and did I mention it starts at less than $17,000? Meet the new Qin L EV. Read more…

Revel, the EV charging company known for its high-speed chargers in and around New York City, started its West Coast expansion today with 12 320kW chargers in San Francisco, and more to come soon. Read more…

Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, often described as Tesla’s (TSLA) biggest cheerleader on Wall Street, just slashed his delivery estimate for the automaker by 300,000 units. Read more…

Tesla (TSLA) surged 10% this morning, fueled by money from retail investors on President Trump, White House officials, and CEO Elon Musk pumping the stock. Read more…

Chinese air taxi company EHang has established a new joint venture with JAC Motors to fund construction of a production facility for its eVTOL aircraft following the company’s first unmanned urban eVTOL flight test in Spain – the first such milestone in Europe. Read more…

The South Korean auto giant has no plans to slow down in the US. Hyundai will reportedly announce another $20 billion investment in the US later today. The funds will help boost local production, including a new steel plant for its upcoming EVs. President Donald Trump and Hyundai are expected to announce the new US investment later today. Read more…

Tesla had to roll back its ‘Full Self-Driving’ free trial in China after a policy change brought more scrutiny to software updates for advanced driver assist systems. Read more…

Global energy demand spiked in 2024, driven largely by surging electricity use, according to a new report released today by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Electricity consumption jumped by nearly 1,100 terawatt-hours – a hefty 4.3% increase – nearly twice the annual average growth of the past decade. Read more…

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) is stagnating with no real improvement in miles between disengagement in months just as CEO Elon Musk said it is going exponential. Read more…

We already know that BMW closed off 2024 with a banner year for its electrified “i” models – but it took a while for the larger picture to become clear. Not only is BMW succeeding with EVs, the Bavarians are outselling their two closest competitors combined. (!. Read more…

A video came out last week comparing two approaches to autonomous vehicles: cameras and LiDAR. The video was fun, as YouTube videos are wont to be, but the fallout from it has been anything but fun, with pretty much everyone missing the point of the video in the first place. Read more…

Cynics will point at big rebates and claim they mean the vehicle isn’t selling, but that just exposes them as industry noobs. A rebate is a powerful financial tool that helps dealers overcome obstacles like negative equity, poor credit, down payment requirements, and interest rate objections so you can drive home in the car of your dreams today. Read more…

If you’re a middle-aged suburbanite looking to throw down the landscaping gauntlet on a rival dad, the Elgo-Plus Springer Max-EB battery electric micro excavator is absolutely the one-up yard machine you’ve been waiting for. Read more…

MOOG Construction’s energy skunkworks ZQUIP made headlines last year by bringing the cordless power tool battery model to the world of industrial-grade heavy equipment – now, they’re making it even easier for job sites to make every kilowatt count by enabling them to switch from diesel to electric and back, on the same machine. (!. Read more…

Xiaomi is building some of the best, most capable high-performance electric cars in the world right now – and Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun wants you to know that they’re among the safest, too. To prove it, he’s wrapping a watermelon in the company’s “bulletproof” battery armor and dropping it off a six-storey building. Read more…

The limited-edition Gold Matte IONIQ 5 Disney100 Platinum Edition is Hyundai’s first vehicle designed with Walt Disney Imagineering. You know, the creative forces behind the Disney movies, stories, characters, and theme parks. With a new secret discount, Hyundai’s limited-edition IONIQ 5 is a steal, but getting your hands on one might be tricky. Read more…

The Hamilton police in Ontario announced that over 80 Tesla vehicles were damaged in a vandalism attack at a Tesla service center. Read more…

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 Tesla hate going biblical, BYD coming out swinging with new record charging time, the new Renault 5 Turbo 3E, and more. Read more…

California now has 178,549 public and shared private EV chargers – hitting a major milestone with 48% more chargers statewide than gas nozzles. Read more…