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updated @ 10/20/2026 05:15:02

If last week’s headlines proved anything at all, it’s that the long wait for flying, flipping, fully self driving electric vehicles is finally over – especially if you’re shopping at Tesla’s competitors. On today’s episode of Quick Charge, we’ve got a full rundown of hot new EVs that you can fly, flip, and (most importantly) take delivery of today.

There are plenty of ways to make an electric motorcycle stand out, but putting a giant hole through the middle of it is certainly one of the more effective options.

Volkswagen opened orders for the entry-level ID. Cross with the 37 kWh battery, starting at about $31,000 (€27,995).

Arizona’s first three NEVI-funded DC fast-charging stations are finally online, giving EV drivers more places to plug in along I-10, I-19, and I-8.

BYD’s new Tang EV, its “tech-savvy” flagship five-seat SUV, was revealed in a regulatory filing with dual electric motors delivering a combined 690 horsepower. The interior is even more impressive.

This week is kicking off with a spooky good EcoFlow Halloween Sale lineup of up to 57% discounts and bonus extra savings, which include deals like the DELTA 3 Ultra Plus 3,072Wh Power Station down at $1,519, and more starting from $284. We also spotted Monarc Bikes offering new battery configuration packages (up to $579 off) on its Tracer Commuter and Marker All-Terrain Smart e-bikes that now start from $1,399. There’s also fall savings hitting the EGO Cordless Electric 600 CFM Backpack Leaf Blower at $380, as well as the 40-mile Hiboy S2 Max Electric Scooter down at $490, the six-plant AeroGarden Harvest Elite 360 Indoor Hydroponic Garden System down at $85, and more waiting for you below. You can find all the hangover deals from last week at the bottom of the page, collected together within our latest Electrified Weekly roundup.

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.

Toyota will produce the Corolla EV in China starting in 2028, alongside hybrid and gas-powered versions.

Priority Bicycles has spent the last decade proving that bicycles don’t need to be complicated to be good. Now the New York-based bicycle company is taking one of its more playful pedal bikes and giving it the electric treatment with the new Priority E-Sauce.

The new Volvo EX60 has an EPA-estimated range of 312 miles, but in real-world conditions, it drove over 350 miles without stopping.

Huawei’s smart car business is signing on to CATL’s battery swap network, giving the world’s largest battery maker another heavyweight partner for a technology most of the industry wrote off a decade ago.

Yinwang, the Huawei-controlled automotive unit also known as Newcool, signed a strategic cooperation framework with CATL and its swap subsidiary CAES on Monday. CATL’s Choco-swap network already counts 2,520 stations across about 200 Chinese cities.

Foxconn is buying half of Mitsubishi Electric’s auto parts business for ¥115 billion ($727 million), its biggest bet yet on turning years of EV promises into a real car business.

But the target, Mitsubishi Electric Mobility, isn’t an EV company. It’s a traditional Tier 1 supplier that makes everything from alternators and ignition coils to radar sensors, with a smaller electric powertrain business attached.

GM just took the wraps off the electric-drive pickup America’s commercial fleets have been waiting for: a one-ton chassis, dually rear axle and massive capability baked in. The best part? You can have it in any color you want — as long as it’s Army green.

Subaru is testing its own tech for its next-generation EVs, breaking away from its longstanding partnership with Toyota.

Tesla’s proxy for its 2026 annual meeting, filed today, confirms that one of its supposedly independent directors now sits on SpaceX’s board. Ira Ehrenpreis, who chairs both Tesla’s compensation committee and its governance committee, joined SpaceX’s board in February.

That’s one of several details in the filing that line up with a Tesla-SpaceX merger. There’s a three-item ballot, an auto-voting program that kicks in for the next vote, and Musk pay terms that pay out on a deal price alone.

Buying an e-bike without a battery might sound a little like buying a car without a motor. But that’s exactly what Minnesota-based e-bike company Monarc is now offering – and there’s actually a pretty good reason for it.

The plug-in hybrid BYD Denza B8 didn’t set the sales charts on fire, but its high-tech suspension promised a smooth ride across just about any terrain, adjusting damping and ride height while independently controlling hydraulic pressure at each wheel. It’s a neat trick, but one driver has figured out a whole new use for it: avoiding traffic boots.

Over the past few years, LEGO has quietly added an impressive array of plug-powered machines to its block-based lineup, from hybrid racers to battery-powered excavators and garbage trucks. We’ve rounded them up here.

Oregon utility Portland General Electric (“PGE”) is highlighting the environmental, health, and grid benefits to electrifying medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks, calling the battery-backed big rigs “batteries on wheels.”

EcoFlow is hoping to make a titanic splash with its new, smaller (but scalable!) residential energy storage lineup that the company is calling a more approachable entry point to its backup battery offerings.

Chinese PV and solar equipment brand LEAPTING has taken the wraps off its new, battery-powered Auto-Navigation Forklift Robot (AFR) designed to speed up the installation of large, utility-scale solar power projects.

Mercedes-AMG has unveiled the GT SUV, an all-electric performance SUV with up to 1,153 hp from three axial-flux motors and DC fast charging at up to 710 kW.

It’s AMG’s answer to the Porsche Cayenne Electric, and on paper, it may be more impressive. The first units hit US dealerships in summer 2027.

I’ve spent countless hours here at Electrek doing detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through thousands of miles of riding, I’ve been fortunate to learn these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That long-term experience with real-world e-bike testing has helped me find the best electric bicycles on the market for just about any budget.

Below are some of the top e-bikes I’ve hand-tested for every price range, current as of October 2026. Fall weather is upon us, bringing cooler temps and beautiful views, so it’s a great time to hop in the saddle and get out there riding! Check out the awesome e-bikes below, any one of which could become your next electric bike.

Montréal Metropolitan Airport now has 120 EV chargers online, with another 48 on the way as the airport expands.

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we’ll focus on the Tesla Roadster unveiling, but we may also cover a few other topics.

Canadian EV customers are delaying buying decisions while they wait for more Chinese EVs to reach their shores, according to a new survey, suggesting widespread awareness of China’s EV dominance is causing EV buyers to ignore Western automakers’ offerings entirely.

Closing out this week’s Green Deals is Lectric’s freshly launched Spooky Sale with up to $762 e-bike bundle savings (that include two FREE mystery gifts) starting from $999. Right behind that group of treats is the Worx 40V 20-inch Cordless Electric Snow Thrower with 2x 6.0Ah batteries down at $395, as well as the Jackery HomePower 1000 V2 1,024Wh Portable Power Station for $549 that is part of the brand’s Power Outage Ready Sale lineup. We also rounded up a bunch of Greenworks chainsaw deals, like the 24V 6-inch Cordless Electric Mini Chainsaw at $95, and spotted the first Amazon deal on BougeRV’s Lightweight Foldable Electric Wagon with a 360-pound payload capacity. All these and more wait for you below, including the hangover deals from this week at the bottom of the page, like the yesterday’s $550 FREE extra battery Velotric Nomad 2 e-bike bundle, the kids-friendly Hiboy electric dirt bike deals, 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.

Two California Highway Patrol officers are recovering from serious injuries after a Tesla drove into their patrol car at a crash scene on Interstate 80 in Fairfield. The 22-year-old driver told investigators he was asleep with Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” engaged.

CHP released dashcam video of the impact on Thursday. It’s the latest Tesla to plow into an emergency scene, a failure federal regulators started investigating five years ago.

Volkswagen is set to recall “several thousand” electric vehicles, including the ID.4 and ID. Buzz. The company is urging owners to limit charging to 80% until a fix is available.

Kia launched a first-of-its-kind remote car-sharing program in Korea using the PV5 electric van.

Two Massachusetts cranberry bogs that had stopped making financial sense to farm are growing berries again – with solar panels overhead helping pay the bills.

There are plenty of e-bike conversion kits designed to turn your existing bicycle electric, but most involve at least a bit of wrenching. Spiny 2 takes a different approach, using a removable friction-drive system that can apparently snap onto your bike in just three seconds.

Waymo is bringing its robotaxis to Canada, and Toronto is first. Its cars will start driving the city’s streets in the coming days, and the company wants its first public riders on board in 2028.

That makes Toronto Waymo’s fourth announced market outside the US, after London, Tokyo, and Singapore. But there’s a catch: Ontario doesn’t have rules for a commercial driverless service yet.

Tesla has finally re-unveiled its next-generation Roadster, originally unveiled in quite different form back in 2017. So since I did a technical breakdown of how it would work last time, I thought I’d give a quick update with what we know about the new version.

(Update: Now that various media videos are out showing a tour of the car, we’re updating this article with answers to some of the questions that were not answered in the product demo).

Tesla has unveiled a new version of its next-generation Roadster. As expected, it received Tesla’s latest design “cyberfication” and cold-gas thrusters to allow it to jump and flip through the air.

The livestream featured impressive stunts but offered few details. Tesla released more information on X after the event, but there’s still no price and no production date.

Until the Tesla Roadster, “there was only one car in the flying car market,” Alef said. To welcome Tesla to the race, Alef released a video of its flying car flying over the old Roadster.

Europe’s EV sales just posted a record September, as global market growth shifts toward Europe and beyond its largest established markets.

Obrist, the Austrian engineering firm famous for ripping battery cells out of a Tesla Model 3 and bolting a gas engine into the frunk, is bankrupt. Three companies in the Obrist Group are insolvent with combined debts of about €31.8 million, or roughly $37 million.

The company spent over a decade pitching its “HyperHybrid” range extender as the smarter alternative to battery-electric cars. It never got a single production vehicle out of it.

Rivian’s point-to-point driving feature will first reach owners through an invitation-only “Autonomy Early Access Program,” and the owners it picks will have to sign a non-disclosure agreement to get in.

The program, laid out on a new Rivian support page, covers US R1 Gen 2 and R2 owners who pay for Autonomy+. Rivian says point-to-point launches to that group in late 2026 and won’t expand broadly until 2027.

Ford’s next electric pickup will start at around $30,000 when it goes on sale in early 2027. As its official debut draws closer, a disguised Fathom prototype popped up outside of Ford’s World Headquarters.

Our Thursday Green Deals this week has a nice mix of deals across EVs, power stations, security systems, and tools, starting with Velotric’s FREE $550 extra battery bundle on the Nomad 2 Off-Road e-bike at $1,999 that gives it up to 130 miles of travel range. Alongside the new $665 low on Bluetti’s Pioneer Na(Sodium) Power Station, you can also find it bundled with an alternator charger for an exclusive $854 low. There’s also a one-day-only chance to score 2x Anker eufyCam C37 Solar Security Cameras bundled with a HomeBase 3 at $260, as well as Amazon savings on Hiboy’s DK1, DK2, and DM14 Electric Dirt Bikes for kids up to 14 years old starting from $300. We also have ongoing Prime deals for Worx’s 8A 2-in-1 chainsaw/pole saw combo tool, the 24V Greenworks 8-inch pole saw kit, and more. And don’t forget about the hangover deals from this week at the bottom of the page, like the yesterday’s Lectric XPress Lite e-bike $1,099 launch, snow blower deals from EGO and Greenworks, 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.

Tesla’s latest crash reports to federal regulators add two more “Robotaxi” crashes where a remote operator, not the car’s autonomous system, was driving when it hit something.

That brings it to five in the data now. And every remote takeover that has shown up in a Tesla crash report has ended in a collision.

BYD used the Denza Z9 GT to showcase its latest breakthrough technology, including its 5-minute Flash Charging. Next year, the luxury GT will get another major update in Europe.

BMW put the new i3 to the test to showcase the power of its Gen6 batteries. The long-wheelbase i3 covered 753 miles (1,213 km) without stopping, the longest covered by any BMW EV to date.

A Tesla crossed the grass median of Route 55 in New Jersey, hit a tree, slid into oncoming traffic, and struck an SUV head-on. The SUV’s driver, 68-year-old Phillip Eastman, was killed.

Police reported it as a driver who lost control. What they didn’t say, and likely didn’t know, is that Tesla’s own report to federal regulators says the car’s driver-assist system was engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data.

Police departments have been increasingly turning to electric bicycles as a new tool for patrols, and in at least some cases, federal money is helping put officers in the saddle.

Tesla’s Senior Manager of Cybercab General Assembly at Gigafactory Texas, Jody Kerns, is leaving the company to become Rivian’s Director of General Assembly for the R2 in Normal, Illinois.

He’s the second Cybercab launch leader to leave Tesla this year. The head of Cybercab new product introduction walked out in April, before the vehicle ever carried a paying passenger.

Jeff Bezos-backed electric truck startup Slate Auto opened the doors to its first-ever brick-and-mortar “experience center” in Chicago’s Near West Side, offering midwest fleet buyers and automotive journalists (Hi!) their first real, up-close look at what promises to be the most affordable new vehicle in America.

I’ve tested a lot of cargo e-bikes over the last decade-plus of reviewing electric bicycles. There are good cargo e-bikes. There are great cargo e-bikes. And then there’s Xtracycle.

More specifically, there’s the new Xtracycle Swoop ASM, which might just be a cut above every other cargo e-bike I’ve tested.

A new smart thermostat from Apple and Schneider Electric could soon use your iPhone to figure out when you’re home – and help move heating and cooling to times when electricity is cleaner and/or cheaper.

Revolution Wind is already sending electricity to New England, and all 65 turbines are installed. Now the Trump administration is challenging the federal approval that allowed the offshore wind farm to be built. Again. Yes, really.

Your eyes do not deceive you, dear readers – the iconic, stainless-steel bodied and gullwing-doored sportscar brand DeLorean is not only somehow still alive, but they apparently have enough money to campaign a DeLorean-branded eVTOL in the new Airspeeder racing series.

BMW overhauled its flagship i7 electric sedan. Now, it wants you to use it as a chauffeur vehicle.

The winter equipment experts at Prinoth are partnering with Swedish trucking group SCANIA on a pair of new, battery-electric snow groomers that are ready to hit Europe’s ski slopes with up to 624 kWh of battery power all winter long.

Orange is the new green at the University of Tennessee, which deployed a new McNeilus Volterra ZFL electric garbage truck at its Knoxville campus this week, bringing together advanced, battery-electric waste collection technology and Made-in-Tennessee manufacturing.

Our midweek Green Deals edition is being led by Lectric’s newest 46-pound Xpress Lite e-bike that just launched at $1,099, which coincides with the bundle for $336 in FREE gear on the XPress2 Cruiser/Commuter e-bikes at $1,299 continuing over from the Better-Than-Prime sale. Right behind that we have two options for EcoFlow’s 572Wh RIVER 3 Max Expanded Power Station at a new $303 low or getting a FREE $40 tool pegboard at Amazon for $319. From there, we have two cordless electric snow blower deals on EGO’s 21-inch model with 2x 6.0Ah batteries at an $899 annual low, or the 80V Greenworks 20-inch model at a new $450 low. There’s also Worx’s newest 40V 3-in-1 Trivac Cordless Leaf Blower/Vacuum/Mulcher with either 2x or 4x battery bundles starting from $260, as well as more deals to get you through fall and winter below. You’ll also find the hangover deals from the last two days at the bottom of the page, like the yesterday’s EcoFlow TITAN series whole-home backup system early-bird deposit deals or the brand’s latest flash sale lineup ending tonight, 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.

BYD will launch the updated Seagull next week, its popular EV that sells for around $10,000 in China.

Volvo is already calling the EX60 a “game changer” as its highest-range, fastest-charging EV to date. After delaying US deliveries, Volvo’s new midsize electric SUV will remain limited, at least for now.

Tesla Powerwalls did most of the heavy lifting as California’s home batteries set a new grid record last week. On October 6, more than 85,000 Powerwall owners sent over 600 MW to the grid, the bulk of a combined 745 MW dispatch that Sunrun announced today.

That’s 28% more than the 580 MW record the two companies set less than a month ago. And it’s bigger than most gas peaker plants in the state.

Want to be among the first to own Ford’s new EV pickup? You can now sign up for a preorder invite for the upcoming $30,000 Ford Fathom.

The world record for the longest journey on an electric motorcycle on a single charge has just been absolutely demolished.

Tesla says it will finally stream its next-generation Roadster event this Thursday, October 15, at 7:55 pm Central, two weeks after it was supposed to happen.

It’s the latest date in a long list of them. Tesla first showed the Roadster in November 2017 and promised production in 2020. Nearly nine years later, it hasn’t delivered a single one.

EVs are giving oil-importing countries some breathing room during the Hormuz energy crisis. Between March and August, their EV fleets displaced an estimated $20 billion worth of crude oil, according to new analysis from energy think tank Ember.

The 2027 BMW i3 and iX3 start at $61,500, but the electric sedan is nearly $80 less a month to lease.

New EVs still cost less than they did a year ago, but September brought buyers a double hit: higher prices and smaller discounts.

Doug Field, the engineer who ran Tesla’s Model 3 program and later Ford’s entire EV operation, is now president of Mind Robotics, the industrial robotics startup Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe spun out of Rivian last year.

He lands at a company that has now raised more than $1 billion in under a year, and he’ll run product, engineering, and operations alongside Scaringe.

Prices for the 2027 Chevy Blazer EV now start at over $45,000 after another price hike.

EcoFlow is dominating our Tuesday Green Deals edition this week, as the brand is offering an early-bird $50 “lock in” deposit for its latest TITAN Series Whole-Home Backup System that will be officially launched in November. Right behind that is the latest 48-hour flash sale lineup, with options like the DELTA Pro Power Station bundle with a 400W solar panel down at $2,279, and more from $689. We also spotted Heybike offering its Mars 3.0 Folding Full Suspension e-bike at a new $1,099 low, a bunch of Anker eufy Solar Wall Light Cam S4 deals starting from $200, a 40V 12-inch Greenworks Cordless Snow Shovel kit at a new $240 low, and more. You’ll also find the hangover deals from yesterday at the bottom of the page, like the Segway’s GT3 superscooter at its lowest price, the exclusive Anker SOLIX 6,144Wh expanded F3000 bundle deal, 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.

BMW’s entry-level EV was spotted testing with a Neue Klasse design that looks more like the new iX3, just smaller.

BYD’s latest flagship EV, the Great Han, is now on sale in China, starting at about $35,000 with a CLTC range of over 1,000 km (621 miles).

Tesla sold 381,088 cars to Chinese buyers through the first nine months of 2026, down 11.9% from last year, according to CPCA data. Over the same period, Giga Shanghai’s exports more than doubled to 361,972 vehicles.

Nearly half of what Tesla builds in China now leaves China. And Beijing just announced it will cut the tax rebate on EV exports next year.

The electric minibus is getting an overhaul. Volkswagen said a new ID. Buzz is in the works, bringing much more than just a lower price tag.

Tesla has stopped taking orders for the Model 3 Premium in Canada, the Shanghai-built trim that brought the electric sedan down to $39,490 CAD. The automaker says it has used up its import quota for Chinese-made EVs and doesn’t expect to reopen orders until March 2027.

But the Canadian government’s own tracker tells a different story: 33,069 of the 49,000 permits for China-made EVs in the current quota year are still available.

The US has passed 80,000 public EV fast-charging ports, and new charging stops are getting bigger and packing more power. That’s good news for drivers looking for an open stall. The price story is more mixed: Most networks are holding steady, but Tesla Supercharger costs have gone up.

Lectric eBikes has spent the last several years steadily expanding from its original folding fat-tire e-bikes into just about every corner of the affordable electric bicycle market. Now the company is returning its attention to the commuter category with the new Lectric XPress Lite, a lighter and more affordable version of its popular XPress2 urban e-bike.

Once America’s most popular electric pickup, Ford’s F-150 Lightning is finding a second life on the used market.

The US electric vehicle market delivered its strongest performance in a year in the third quarter. Here are the top 10 most popular so far this year.

Tesla told a Quebec court that car fires are “generally” caused by misuse or vandalism. The judge didn’t buy it, and Tesla Canada now has to cover the C$161,700 an insurer paid out for a Model X that burned in Montreal.

An expert report traced the fire to an electrical failure in the dashboard of the 2020 Model X, which was still under Tesla’s warranty. Tesla offered no data to support its theory, and the court called it out for that.

We’re kicking off this week’s Green Deals with a bunch of ongoing savings from last week’s big event alongside some newer deals. Leading the group is Segway’s GT3 Electric SuperScooter down at its $1,400 low for the rest of the week, not to mention the other models in the sale. We also have an exclusive bundle for Anker’s expanded 6,144Wh SOLIX F3000 Portable Power Station with an expansion battery and FREE home integration kit ($100 value) down at $2,118, as well as the Autel MaxiCharger AC Pro 80A Level 2 EV Charger back at its $909 low, the Greenworks 80V 20-inch Cordless Pole Hedge Trimmer kit at a new $243 2026 low, and GoTrax’s MK2 Electric Mini Motorbike for kids at a new $280 low – plus, several ongoing sales/deals from last week’s Prime Day event. You can also find the hangover deals from last week collected together in our latest Electrified Weekly roundup edition here.

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.

Shortly after launching, Volkswagen said its new Electric Urban Car Family is proving “highly popular,” with nearly 150,000 orders to date.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spent over half a billion dollars on anti-EV political campaigns so far, with $276 million spent in just the last 3 months.

Even Tesla acknowledges that these campaigns have harmed its business, costing it billions, and has taken the extraordinary measure of asking its CEO to stop – yet he’s only accelerated his anti-EV influence in response.

It’s about the size of the Kia PV5 and VW ID. Buzz. As “a real alternative to SUVs and saloons,” Renault’s E-Space Concept makes you want to love minivans again.

Smart is back in the two-seater business. The Mercedes-Benz and Geely joint venture unveiled the all-electric Smart #2 at the Paris Motor Show today, with a 35.8 kWh LFP battery, up to 290 km (180 miles) of WLTP range, and a starting price of €19,990.

That’s more than double the range of the last Smart EQ Fortwo, which never got DC fast charging. Early orders open in Europe tomorrow, and deliveries start in 2027.

AITO will start selling cars in Europe in the fall of 2027. The Chinese luxury SUV brand, built by Seres with Huawei’s technology, confirmed the timing at the Paris Motor Show today, where it showed the AITO 9, 8, 7, and 6.

AITO sold 426,000 vehicles in 2025, more than any other Chinese luxury brand. Now it has a date for Europe. But you won’t find the word “Huawei” anywhere in its Paris press kit.

French electric marine motor manufacturer TEMO is bringing its latest electric propulsion system to North America, offering sailboat owners an interesting middle ground between a conventional outboard and a permanently installed pod drive.

The flagship seven-seater is BYD’s first vehicle in Europe to feature its second-generation batteries and Flash Charging tech, delivering over 400 miles of range.

A new defect petition accuses Tesla’s Robotaxis of speeding through active school zones, and NHTSA has opened a file to decide whether to investigate. The agency puts the affected fleet at about 1,000 vehicles, Model Y and Cybercab.

It’s the third federal action aimed at Tesla’s driverless fleet in about five weeks, after an audit query and a Special Order over how the Cybercab was certified.

Electric work trucks are earning their keep at one of Canada’s busiest container terminals, where Peterbilt’s battery-powered box vans are keeping cargo moving without the air pollution of diesel and propane. And now, they’re getting recognized for it.

The Hunter WOLF military robot is one of six private-sector projects chosen for US Army’s Infantry Last Tactical Mile (ILTM) initiative – an advanced research initiative designed to modernize infantry support for soldiers on the battlefield.

Brazilian electric motorcycle and battery-swapping company Vammo is hitting several major milestones as it prepares to take its model beyond its home of São Paulo, including reaching EBITDA profitability, surpassing 10 million battery swaps, and growing to more than 10,000 active riders.

Citroën has unveiled a concept electric version of its classic 2CV, aiming to bring the vehicle to market in 2028 for just €15,000.

For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about whether our Electrek believed there might be some silver lining to the record-breaking fuel prices following the start of the war in Iran. After nearly 2,000 responses, here’s what you told us.

For a lot of fleet managers, whether or not electrified equipment assets will lead to real world savings that are worth the higher up-front costs might feel theoretical, but early adopters Groupe Bellemare have been operating battery-powered heavy equipment for years – and their real-world results are real impressive.

As record-breaking diesel prices drive demand for electric big rigs, so, too is the demand for commercial truck charging climbing. To meet that demand, EV Realty as announced a new, Inland Empire site for its next electric semi truck charging hub.

Mitusbishi’s North American dealers have been trudging along with an aging, badge-engineered model line for years – but overseas? It’s a different story, and the 459 hp all-wheel drive ASX VR-e electric hot hatch shown here is plug-in proof.

The BYD Q3 battery-electric semi truck shown here marked a major production milestone this week, becoming the 150,000th new energy commercial vehicle to roll off the assembly line at BYD’s truck plant in Huai’an, Jiangsu province.

While oil prices and range anxiety dominate Western EV headlines, Nio’s battery-swap system in China keeps reaching new milestones that prove the technology can rival a traditional refueling infrastructure at scale, performing 1.2 million battery swaps over the holiday.

A 450-megawatt (MW) solar farm with a massive battery system is now under construction in Arizona – and Tesla has already lined up about 90% of its expected electricity output.

Hyundai’s electric SUVs are even more tempting this month with a 10% discount, or up to $7,000 in total savings.

Most Americans say 75 miles of range would be more than enough for their daily drive, but when it comes to choosing an EV, a fair number want a much bigger cushion.

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 finally launching V2H, our Kia EV3 first drive, Jaguar Type 01, and more.

You can’t miss BMW’s new “Double-X” lights, which debut on the all-electric iX5 and X5. The new iX5 was spotted testing ahead of its upcoming US launch, giving us a look at the new lighting signature in real life.

We’re closing out this week’s Green Deals led by the Bluetti Encore Sale that is completely switching up its power station deals, including bringing back the winter-ready 900Wh Pioneer Na(Sodium) Portable Power Station at an exclusive $665 low. Right behind that, we have three exclusive deals on Anker solar multi-cam kits with HomeBase 3 that end tonight, starting from $290. There’s also the Navee Fall EV Sale that is offering a nice array of bonus extra savings (up to 65% off total) on e-scooters, like the premium UT5 Ultra X Electric SuperScooter down at a new $1,600 low at $900 off. You’ll also find lows for an EGO carbon fiber string trimmer kit, a compact Greenworks chainsaw, a Linkind Matter outdoor smart plug, and more. Don’t forget, we also have all the lasting Prime Day deals collected in our Fall Prime Day Green Deals hub here, as well as the hangover deals from yesterday at the bottom of the page, including the Anker SOLIX Encore Sale, the extended Segway electric scooter deals, EcoFlow’s latest flash sale lineup, 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.

Kia’s 7-seat PV5 electric van is now eligible for the UK Government’s Electric Car Grant (ECG), bringing the starting price down to £35,495 ($47,000).

The Seagull is BYD’s most affordable electric vehicle, starting at about $10,000 in China and sold overseas as the Dolphin Surf. BYD is preparing to introduce a new version that will likely be an even “bigger” hit.

Tesla’s driver-assistance package is now called “Tesla Assisted Driving” in Europe. The company’s German website no longer mentions “Full Self-Driving,” and the old address now redirects to a new “Tesla Assisted Driving” page.

The rename follows Germany’s Transport Ministry calling the FSD name misleading, and it’s part of a deal that has Berlin backing Tesla’s push for EU-wide approval.

Volkswagen unveiled the ID. Tiguan, an all-electric version of its best-selling vehicle. The ID. Tiguan will go on sale in early 2027, replacing the ID.4 and ID.5 with up to 372 miles of range and plenty of other upgrades.

Tesla has opened its first Semi Megacharger sites in the Southeast: an 8-stall station just south of Atlanta and a 6-stall station outside Savannah, each rated for up to 1.2 MW per stall.

The Savannah site is also the first Megacharger at a Pilot truck stop, a rollout that was supposed to start this summer. Together, the two stations give the Tesla Semi its first public charging corridor outside California.

Geely is coming to Canada. The Chinese automaker’s mainstream brand announced today that it has started setting up Canadian operations and recruiting a dealer network, with its first vehicles going on sale in 2027.

What Geely isn’t saying is which vehicles. There are no models, no prices and no dealer locations, just a new website at geely.ca and a promise of more details closer to launch.

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new e-bikes from Gazelle, Ride1Up, and SixThreeZero, a solar-powered electric seated scooter, LiveWire Honcho approved for MSF motorcycle training courses, and more.

During multiple historic fuel crises and a climate crisis that left tens of thousands dead across Europe this summer, the bloc is reportedly close to striking a deal to allow its automakers to produce more of the vehicles that directly caused each of those problems.

In doing so, it would only ensure that its automakers are unprepared to compete against the country that actually is providing solutions to those problems: China.

If the IONIQ 5 isn’t big enough, Hyundai is preparing to introduce the IONIQ 7, set to fill the gap between the IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 9.

Rivian is back with another Halloween update, and once again it’s another classic-movie-themed one with a new celebrity cameo.

BYD offered an early look at the third-generation Tang’s interior, its flagship “tech-savvy” five-seat electric SUV.

Amazon’s Fall Prime Day Sale event is over, but that doesn’t mean the savings are slowing down, and we’re keeping all the ongoing deals in our updated Fall Prime Day Green Deals hub here for the rest of the week. Leading today’s edition of Green Deals is the latest and final EcoFlow Prime Day flash sale running for 72 hours, with offers like the 2x 1,024Wh DELTA 3 Classic power station bundle down at $889, alongside some other notable units from $599. Right behind that we have collected all the ongoing Segway Fall Deals Deals Day Sale savings on e-scooters, with continuing options like the ZT3 Pro Off-Road Electric Scooter down at $800. We also have Anker’s SOLIX Prime Deals Encore Sale offering the 2,048Wh C2000 Gen 2 Portable Power Station with a 400W solar panel at an exclusive $1,330, among others, as well as the Segway Navimow i2 Series Robot Mowers at their lowest prices, a continuing low price on EGO’s 56V 12-inch Electric Snow Shovel, and more options hanging onto savings for a while longer.

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.

Volkswagen issued another recall affecting more than 22,500 ID.4 models. Until a fix is ready, it recommends owners charge the battery to no more than 80%.

BMW’s new electric SUV just got the M treatment. The new BMW iX3 M60 “raises the stakes,” packing a combined 603 hp and plenty of standard M upgrades.

VinFast wants to put electric buses on US streets, and its pitch goes beyond the vehicles: charging, maintenance, and operations bundled into one package. Deliveries of buses approved for US use are expected to begin in Q1 2028.

Tesla is preparing a dedicated Tesla Semi service center in Las Vegas, according to a new building permit filed with Clark County, Nevada.

It’s one of the first concrete signs of the service network Tesla needs to support its electric Class 8 truck, which only entered volume production two weeks ago.

BMW revealed the new iX4, its new electric coupe-SUV that can drive up to 428 miles on a single charge.

Tesla spent months pushing the Dutch vehicle regulator RDW to scale back its review of “Full Self-Driving (Supervised),” including disputing a €365,000 bill, according to emails obtained by Reuters. RDW later approved the system and is now asking the EU to do the same.

That Dutch approval is the foundation of Tesla’s entire FSD push in Europe. Eight EU countries now allow the system, and a bloc-wide vote could come as early as December.

Portsmouth International Port has taken a huge step towards reducing the air pollution caused by idling marine engines with the launch of the UK’s first high-voltage, multi-berth shore power system that allows docked ships to connect to grid power and shut off their on-board generators. In theory, shore power reduces emissions and slashes fuel costs.

The reality is somewhat different.

The world’s ports operators work in confined spaces, moving massively heavy loads with incredible precision in perilous conditions with razor-thin margins. It’s no wonder, then, that they’re moving to electric equipment – and the Port of Helsingborg is just the latest to do so, thanks to its latest order for two new Kalmar reach stackers.

An ice cream stop could soon double as a fast-charging stop for EV drivers in Ohio. Family-owned United Dairy Farmers (UDF) is adding its first DC fast chargers at six of its 170 stores, with openings expected to begin in early 2027.

Update 10/8: We’re keeping this hub updated for the rest of the week, so all the deals on EVs, power stations, tools, and smart appliances/devices that remain have yet to end.

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days are finally here, and we’ve already been reveling the last week in all the early savings, but things are ramping up even further for the rest of this week. You’ll find a massive collection of deals across all our favorite Green Deal brands – both at Amazon and from direct websites – giving you a great chance at savings on EVs, power stations, electric tools, robots, and much more. It’s all been rounded up together and curated for you below, giving you a one-stop shopping hub for all your needs. Head on down and keep checking back throughout the week as we update this hub.

BYD is testing “unprecedented disruptive technology” in its upcoming executive electric sedan, including coach doors and possibly solid-state EV batteries.

A Tesla Cybercab was involved in a crash in Philadelphia this week, and it came out of it missing the entire outer panel of its driver-side door.

We don’t know who was at fault or whether Tesla’s software was driving. But Tesla has no permit to run automated vehicles in Pennsylvania, and that narrows down what this car was doing on Broad Street.

Volkswagen opened pre-orders for the ID. Polo GTI, the first electric hot hatch to bear the iconic GTI badge.

It’s the second and last day of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event, and we’ve got another deal-packed smorgasbord of Green Deals for you, with all the others we couldn’t fit here collected into our Fall Prime Day Green Deals hub here. Starting off today’s edition is Jackery’s full Fall Prime Day Sale with up to 65% discounts and bonus savings codes, with it offering the 3,584Wh HomePower 3600 Pro Max Power Station at a new $1,664 low, while Bluetti has a number of units at up to 50% off, including the 1,024Wh Elite 100 V2 Power Station at $449. There is also the MASSIVE array of Anker security device deals at up to 50% off starting from $18 for some of the best prices we’ve seen yet, as well as ECOVACS’ O1000 and A2000 LiDAR Pro Robot Lawn Mowers at new lows starting from $949. We also have more on Segway’s Max G2 e-scooter, a new low price on a carbon-fiber EGO Multi-Head Combo kit, a roundup of all the Worx tool deals, Beatbot’s returning low prices on robot pool cleaners, Anker’s Nebula portable projectors, 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.

Porsche has finally confirmed that there will be no more gas-powered Boxster/Cayman going forward, and that all-electric versions of those vehicles will have their first production year in 2028.

The move shows that Porsche is finally ready to bring electric power to its sportscars… but Porsche’s CEO still says the 911 will “never” go electric. We think time will show him to be wrong on that one.

California is putting at least $28 million toward more public EV fast chargers – and it could pick up the entire eligible installation bill.

Kia said the EV2 is already seeing “significant and immediate demand,” with 3,386 registrations in the UK so far.

Tesla delivered just 8,295 “Other Models” in Q3 2026, down 48% from a year ago and the lowest total for the category since 2021. With the Model S and Model X out of production, almost all of them were Cybertrucks.

That gives us the cleanest look yet at Cybertruck sales. We estimate Tesla delivered 7,000 to 8,000 of the trucks last quarter, a pace of about 30,000 a year from a line it planned for 250,000.

If you’ve ever looked at a cargo e-bike and thought, “Sure, but where am I supposed to put the other six people?”, SixThreeZero may finally have the answer.

The company’s latest addition to its growing e-bike and e-trike lineup, the Long Range Luxury Rickshaw, is already a fairly ridiculous machine in its standard form. It combines three wheels, dual motors, rear passenger seating bench, and enough battery capacity to make many electric motorcycles jealous. But start adding its optional passenger trailers, and you can essentially build yourself a seven-person electric bicycle train.

Rivian is rolling out Pet Cam, a new feature in software update 2026.36 that lets R2 owners check on a pet left in the vehicle through a live video feed in the Rivian app.

It’s exclusive to the R2. R1T and R1S owners get new remote Pet Mode controls instead, and the same update brings the Rivian Assistant to the R2, four months after the SUV launched.

You can now customize Hyundai’s off-road electric SUV and test it out… virtually.

Europe has spent years encouraging people to ditch cars and get around on bicycles and e-bikes instead. And in many places, it’s working. But all of those increasingly sophisticated electric bicycles have created an unexpected new problem: there aren’t nearly enough people to fix them.

Hyundai has scrapped plans to launch the IONIQ 3 in Australia. Importing the electric hatch would be too costly to compete with low-priced Chinese EVs.

Rarely seen by the general public, rail road excavators are a critical piece of the infrastructure puzzle – one that can travel directly on the tracks while digging, lifting, and clearing obstacles from the track, working on everything from track maintenance and renewal to utility and civil construction projects. This one’s electric.

Jaguar has unveiled the final version of its new Type 01 EV, the first car as part of its controversial rebrand, and it’s a 1,016 horsepower, four-door, 1930s-comic-book-mobster-style doozy.

The US is planning a lot more gas power – and data centers are the culprit. Proposed grid-connected gas capacity has nearly tripled since early 2023, while plans for new wind power are shrinking.

The E-Space Concept is an all-electric reboot of Renault’s iconic minivan from the 1980’s.

Toyota’s joint venture, FAW Toyota, issued a statement denying reports that it’s “slashing prices” in China and may exit the market entirely.

It’s the very first day of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event, and we’ve got a jam-packed edition of Green Deals for you, with the many other deals we couldn’t fit here collected into our Fall Prime Day Green Deals hub here. To start, we’re getting some increased savings from Anker’s SOLIX Fall Prime Day Sale, with options like the 3,840Wh F3800 Portable Power Station down at an exclusive $1,710, among many others. Likewise, there’s EcoFlow’s Prime Big Deal Days Sale with major savings, including the 3,072Wh DELTA 3 Ultra Plus Power Station down at $1,438. From there, we have Segway’s e-scooter deals with up to 37% savings starting from $142, as well as ENGWE’s electric dirt bikes and e-bikes at up to 43% off starting from $599. There’s also the roundups of EGO Power+ tools, Greenworks tools, Segway’s Navimow i2 series robot lawn mowers at their best prices to date, and so much more waiting for you down below. You can also find yesterday’s hangover deals at the bottom of the page, like the Prime Sales from Velotric and Lectric, or Segway’s e-bikes with up to $2,200 savings, the exclusive Anker eufy security deals, 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.

The 2027 Mitsubishi Eclipse Sportback starts at $37,745, or nearly $8,000 more than its twin, the Nissan LEAF.

Tesla has turned on Powershare Home Backup for the Model 3 and Model Y, which means its two volume cars can now send power back into a house during an outage. Until today, the Cybertruck was the only Tesla that could do it.

There are limits. You need a Powerwall 3, and Tesla only guarantees the feature on cars ordered since October 1. For years, Ford and GM have been selling EVs that can back up a home.

BMW is expected to reveal the new iX4 this week. Ahead of its debut, images of the new iX4 leaked online, offering an early look.

The e SKY, Suzuki’s first electric kei car, is expected to undercut BYD’s Racco as Japan’s cheapest mini EV, starting at around $13,500.

Tesla has registered just 993 vehicles in India since it started deliveries there in September 2025, according to registration data compiled by Indian EV publication ElecTree.

But 294 of those came in September 2026 alone. That’s a record month for Tesla in India, and it comes right after the automaker cut prices and launched the six-seat Model Y L.

The Kia EV3 starts at $29,890 in the US, and after a day of driving it around Vancouver Island, I think it’s the best-packaged affordable EV you can buy right now.

It comes with up to 321 miles of range, two battery sizes, and available all-wheel drive, which is more choice than anything else at this price. But there’s a catch: that $30,000 price tag climbs fast.

There are plenty of ways to build a small electric vehicle. These days, the prevailing options have been to make it faster, give it more power, slap on bigger tires, or keep adding features until your humble little scooter has somehow turned into a 150-pound electric motorcycle.

Or you can be brave and go in the other direction to ask a simpler question: How much vehicle do people actually need for all those short trips around town?

Between increasingly extreme weather, rising electricity demands, and the rapid expansion of data centers, energy independence is starting to look less like a talking point for doomsday preppers and more like sound planning. That shift in thinking is driving more homeowners than ever towards solar-plus-battery energy solutions like the industry-leading Tesla Powerwall – but Powerwall isn’t the only game in town, anymore.

UPDATE 05OCT26: added the EcoFlow DELTA Pro.

Six Flags Magic Mountain is putting its parking lots to work with a new 12.37-megawatt (MW) solar installation – California’s largest solar carport. It’s expected to generate enough electricity each year to offset the annual power use of both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles.

As if to prove that there may not be money for universal childcare or nationalized healthcare but there is ALWAYS more money for war, the US Department of War has awarded Amprius a $75 million grant to convert a civilian EV battery production line to churn out high-energy-density batteries for military drones.

BYD’s full-size flagship electric SUV is off to a strong early start, with more than 10,000 units sold in its first three months on the market.

As part of its fall Prime Day promotions, you can score a FREE $1,500 Amazon gift card with the purchase of a new car through Amazon Autos. 

Lucid (LCID) delivered 3,806 vehicles in the third quarter, down 7% from a year ago. It built only 2,954, a 38% cut from the previous quarter and its lowest production since early 2025.

The automaker says that’s on purpose. New CEO Silvio Napoli is selling down the unsold cars Lucid piled up in the first half of the year, and Q3 is the first quarter of 2026 in which it delivered more vehicles than it built.

A disguised Hyundai SUV has been spotted out testing, giving us an early look at what’s thought to be the IONIQ 4, or possibly the IONIQ 1.

We’ve got a bunch of official Prime Day sales packed into today’s weekly Green Deals kickoff, starting with the Velotric Fall Prime Day Sale with up to $550 e-bike savings that has given us the first discount on its Summit 2 Hybrid Mixed-Terrain e-bike for $1,999. Right behind that we have Lectric’s Better-Than-Prime Sale with up to $694 e-bike bundle savings + price cuts, like the XPeak2 Off-Road Fat Tire e-bike at a new $1,299 low. There’s also four exclusive Anker security camera and smart lock deals, like the EufyCam S3 Pro 4K Solar Security 2-Cam Kit with HomeBase 3 at $420, as well as EcoFlow’s latest flash sale that has dropped the 3,072Wh DELTA 3 Ultra Power Station to $1,199, and a special Buy 2 get $200 off Segway e-bike promotion that can score you up to $2,200 total savings – plus, some other popular sales running right now. You can also find the hangover deals from last week collected together in our latest Electrified Weekly roundup edition here.

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.

Kia’s electric van might look even cooler as a dump truck. The PV5 was made into a dump truck, and it works.

Toyota will invest around $1.3 billion, the largest in Argentina’s automotive industry to date, to produce a new electric vehicle at its site in Buenos Aires.

Gas cars are now a minority of the world’s new car sales. Gasoline-only vehicles made up 49% of global new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026, down from 73% in 2021, according to Mobility Global data first reported by Nikkei.

It’s the first time on record that they’ve been under half. But there’s a catch: most of the cars taking their place still have a gas tank.

The Lucid Cosmos is out testing in California traffic. A camouflaged prototype of the midsize SUV was photographed on Highway 101 in Morgan Hill, about 40 miles south of Lucid’s headquarters in Newark.

The four photos show the sub-$50,000 SUV from the rear and the side. They come two months after Lucid pushed the Cosmos launch back to the second half of 2027.

The IONIQ 3 has received more interest than any Hyundai vehicle in the UK ever. Starting at about $25,000, Hyundai’s electric hatch undercuts much of the competition.

LiveWire’s smallest electric motorcycle is about to take on a new role, and it could prove to be one of the most important ones yet. The LiveWire S4 Honcho Street has now met the Motorcycle Safety Foundation’s (MSF) criteria for use in rider training programs, opening the door for new riders to learn the ropes – and potentially earn their motorcycle endorsement – without first learning how to operate a clutch and gearbox on a gas-powered motorcycle.

Volkswagen Group is going through some tough times these days. Labor disputes, increased competition in China, and a few market misses on big swings are all playing a part, but that doesn’t mean the EVs themselves aren’t great – and with all the big rebates and incentive offers on Audi, Porsche, and Volkswagen EVs this month, they’re definitely worth a look.

The logistics experts at 3PL provider YMX know a thing or three about running an efficient fleet, but even they are feeling the nationwide shortage of qualified yard operators. To help keep the goods moving and the wheels turning, the company is turning to self-driving, zero-emission yard trucks at customer sites as part of a new pilot with AI startup Outrider.

After months of delays, missed delivery windows, and increasingly impatient reservation holders, Rivian spinout ALSO is finally putting its electric bikes into the hands of actual customers.

Decommissioning humanoid robots that are packed with proprietary tech is a tricky thing – you want to make sure none of the expensive raw material goes to waste, but you also need to make sure no one else gets a hold of your tech. The solution? Have your robots hurl themselves into a vat of molten steel, Terminator 2-style.

Elon Musk says the main thing holding back Tesla Robotaxi’s night hours is that the cars have a hard time seeing pets in the dark. His example was “grey kittens on grey tarmac.”

That’s a low-light, low-contrast detection problem, which is the textbook weakness of cameras and the exact thing lidar and radar handle. Musk has spent years calling those sensors a “crutch” and a “fool’s errand.”

The Ride1Up Roadster V3 is, for all intents and purposes, is a budget-focused daily driver urban bike. It’s not really a gravel bike. Maybe if you stand back a bit and squint, you could give it a bit more of a gravel bike interpretation. But ultimately, it’s a lightweight, affordable urban e-bike with decent multi-role tires that I mostly use for cruising around bike lanes and city streets.

So naturally, yesterday I took it on a 38 km (24 mile) ride where I spent most of the time off-road.

In a record-setting commercial truck deal, international shipping giant FedEx has placed an order for 2,000 all-electric box trucks from American startup Harbinger in a deal that’s reportedly worth more than $300 million – but the ROI could be much higher.

Swedish heavy equipment brand HUDDIG has given its 1370 hybrid wheel loader platform a major battery upgrade for the new model year, boosting its battery capacity from 44 kWh to fully 61 kWh – an impressive, 40% upgrade!

With the new EV3 now arriving at dealerships, Kia is throwing some extra savings into the mix with up to $10,000 off in customer cash on select EVs.

Detroit-based energy company DTE Energy has completed construction of a 100-megawatt (MW) solar farm near Coldwater, Michigan, that will help Ford power its home-state factories with cleaner electricity.

The Jeep Recon EV has removable doors and packs 670 horsepower combined, but it’s less efficient than advertised.

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 the Tesla Roadster delay, EV deliveries in the US, battery swap coming back, and more.

The world’s tallest wind turbine has reached its full height in Germany, and its developer says the extra altitude could roughly double its electricity output.

We’re closing out this week with another jam-packed early fall Prime Day deals edition, starting with the Yozma IN 10 Pro Electric Dirt Bike back at its exclusive $1,699 low, while the IN 10 Electric Mini Dirt Bike is down at $999. Right behind that are EcoFlow’s 192Wh and 288Wh TRAIL 200 and 300 Power Station deals starting from $109, as well as Bluetti’s 288Wh Elite 30 V2 Power Station at an exclusive $237.50. We also have Worx’s 13A Electric Leaf Mulcher back at a $125 2026 low, as well as a 40V Greenworks mower and blower combo annual low, solar pathway lights, a collection of permanent outdoor smart lighting deals, a portable projector that pairs well with power stations, and much more waiting for you below. You can also find the hangover deals from across this week down at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s up to $905 Tenways e-bike savings, the 2,048Wh Anker SOLIX C2000 Gen 2 power station at $900, 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.

UK EV sales hit a new all-time record in September. The country registered 99,199 battery-electric cars last month, up 36.3% from a year ago and good for 28.3% of the market, according to preliminary data released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

Tesla’s Model 3 was the best-selling EV and the second best-selling car overall. And yet the auto industry’s own lobby group is using the record month to argue that the UK’s EV targets are too hard.

Mercedes-Benz is revamping its electric vehicle lineup. The new CLA and GLB are now on sale, while a few EVs are on the way out in 2027.

A coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Transportation’s moves to lower fuel economy standards, which the Department of Energy says will increase gas prices by 76 cents a gallon.

The Ford Fathom is set to go on sale in early 2027, starting at about $30,000. Meanwhile, Ford’s US EV sales dropped 80% in the third quarter.

Tesla says its new “Emergency Drive Away” feature can do up to $25,000 in damage to a Supercharger every time someone uses it, and the car needs a mandatory service visit too.

Tesla has since released more details about the feature in response to owner questions. But Tesla hasn’t said who gets that bill.

Kia is crushing it in Europe with a full lineup of electric vehicles, ranging from entry-level models to the three-row flagship SUV. Thanks to its new EVs, Kia is now Europe’s fastest-growing top 10 passenger car brand this year.

Tesla (TSLA) delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter of 2026, down 2.1% from the record 497,099 it delivered in the same quarter last year.

That’s still about 25,000 more than Wall Street expected, with the consensus at 461,974 deliveries. Tesla also delivered about 22,000 more vehicles than it built.

Rivian posted its third-quarter production and delivery numbers this morning and, with the R2, remains on track to meet its annual targets despite some headwinds across the US electric vehicle sector.

There are cheap e-bikes, and there are good mid-drive e-bikes. Those two circles on the Venn diagram don’t overlap nearly as often as we’d like. But Ride1Up’s newly launched Prodigy V2 Eco is doing its best to smash them together with a surprisingly low $1,295 price tag.

And this isn’t a $1,300 bike with some no-name mid-drive motor you’ve never heard of. At the heart of the Prodigy V2 Eco is a German-made Brose TF Sprinter mid-drive motor pumping out 90 Nm of torque, paired with a 504 Wh battery using Samsung cells.

Tesla is now putting its larger 16-inch center touchscreen in every Model 3 sold in the US, Puerto Rico, and Mexico, a day after it rolled out the same upgrade in China.

The Model 3 Performance also gets a black headliner, 316 miles of range, and 528 hp, while the Premium AWD now does 0 to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds. But there’s still no word on the US Model 3 getting vehicle-to-load.

Tesla launched a new feature called “Emergency Drive Away” that lets drivers shift into Drive and leave while still plugged into a Supercharger.

The update comes two months after a gunman shot three people in Teslas at a Supercharger station in Twin Falls, Idaho. And Tesla is limiting it to the US.

Californians who can’t install rooftop solar are getting another way to tap into the sunshine. Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill opening the door to small plug-in solar, also known as balcony solar, alongside two laws designed to get more out of home energy devices and the grid California already has. All three were signed on September 30.

The Hyundai IONIQ 5 is still one of the EVs Americans are buying the most, with more than 31,000 sold through September.

Toyota’s new electric vehicles are selling surprisingly well, even as many automakers report fewer EV sales in the third quarter.

Our thursday Green Deals is led by the Tenways Holiday Season Warmup Sale with up to $905 savings, like the AGO X Mid-Drive All-Terrain e-bike with a $405 FREE bundle at $1,999. Behind that is the Anker SOLIX C2000 Gen 2 Portable Power Station down at $900, as well as Hiboy’s Fall Ride Event Sale with up to 44% EV discounts starting from $180, the Greenworks 40V 12-inch Cordless Dual-Line String Trimmer down at a $90 annual low, and more early Prime Day deals. You can find the hangover deals from the last few days down at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s EcoFlow flash sale lineup that will be ending tonight, among others.

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.

A new interactive tool shows the thousands of manufacturing projects that have been cancelled, stalled, delayed, or lost support as a result of attacks on US manufacturing by Congressional republicans.

The Chevy Equinox EV’s run as GM’s top-selling electric car is quickly coming to an end after sales dropped 92% in Q3.

BMW joins the growing list of luxury brands planning to introduce an entry-level electric vehicle. The new model will be the most affordable Neue Klasse EV.

The Ford Fathom is expected to go on sale in early 2027, starting at $28,350. Ford CEO Jim Farley admitted, “It’s going to be a heck of an effort to launch this at scale, at cost, on time.”

Aptera (SEV) now says it needs only about $25 million to start production of its Solar EV, down from the $40 to $45 million it quoted just seven weeks ago.

It’s good news on paper. But the market didn’t buy it: Aptera’s stock fell about 15% on the announcement, leaving the solar car startup with a market cap of roughly $69 million.

With the 2027 EV3 now on sale and another record sales quarter, Kia said it’s “the brand to watch” in 2027.

Gazelle has spent much of its recent e-bike development pushing its premium Ultimate platform toward faster Class 3 commuters, but now the Dutch bicycle maker is filling out the other side of the family.

Geothermal’s upfront cost can be a dealbreaker for affordable housing. A Vermont gas utility is helping get past that hurdle by paying for the underground infrastructure at a new development.

A fresh batch of battery-electric forklift reveals from Hyundai completes the brand’s heavy forklift range, allowing Hyundai dealers to confidently offer a high-voltage electric counterbalance forklift in 4-to-18 tonne capacities, extending electric forklift availability into applications traditionally reserved for big, diesel-powered trucks.

Update: A day after this article was published, Tesla brought the 16-inch screen to every Model 3 in the US. Here’s what changed, and what the US Model 3 still doesn’t get.

Tesla China is upgrading every Model 3 it sells with a larger 16-inch touchscreen and a new light gray interior option, and it’s turning on up to 2.2 kW of AC power export across its entire Model 3 and Model Y lineup in the country.

The US Model 3 gets none of it. Tesla’s American Model 3 still has a 15.4-inch display, and it’s shut out of the vehicle-to-load feature Tesla launched stateside in August.

NIO delivered 109,178 electric vehicles in the third quarter of 2026, a 25.4% increase over last year and right inside the 108,000 to 111,000 range it guided for in September.

But the quarter ended on a weak note. September deliveries grew just 7.7% year-over-year to 37,408 units, the slowest pace of 2026, as the ONVO brand fell 43%.

Metra’s diesel-engined commuter trains are familiar sights in and around Chicago, and so is the smell of spent diesel that surrounds them – but a new battery-electric FLIRT locomotive from Stadler is about to change all that, and it’s set to arrive this week.

Commercial delivery operator Gateway Fleets ordered 100 medium-duty electric box vans from Workhorse earlier this year. That experiment seems to be going well, because the company just ordered 200 more.

Toyota tried crushing its new electric truck with a 1,675-pound caravan to prove it’s still “the world’s toughest pick-up,” and it drove off as if nothing had happened.

BYD is giving its $10,000 EV a major overhaul. New images of the second-gen Seagull reveal a larger, more upscale design with a few surprise luxury features.

We have a jam-packed midweek Green Deals for you, with a bunch of these deals coming from Amazon’s early fall Prime Day sale. Starting off today’s edition is the limited-time chance to score a larger-than-ever $838 FREE bundle (extra battery, smart helmet, stem bag) with Monarc’s Tracer Commuter e-bike and Marker All-Terrain e-bike starting from $1,899. Right behind that is the latest EcoFlow 48-hour flash sale returning the 2x bundle of DELTA 3 Classic Power Stations to $938, and more from $599. We also spotted the Worx Nitro 20V Cordless Wet/Dry Vacuum at a $117 2026 low, as well as the continuing and exclusive low prices on Anker’s SOLIX E10 Whole-Home Backup System for early Prime Day deals starting from $3,799. From there, we have a Greenworks trimmer and blower combo kit, a 2x SKIL battery bundle, cooler deals, smart floor lamp savings, and more down below. You can find the hangover deals from the last two days down at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s Mango Power E early Prime Day Sale with up to 72% 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.

If you’ve spent any time reading local neighborhood social media groups lately – and for your mental health, I hope you haven’t – you’ve probably encountered a familiar complaint: teenagers on e-bikes.

Rivian’s first R2s with LiDAR and its in-house RAP1 autonomy computer will go to employees before the end of 2026. Paying customers will have to wait until 2027. It could be interpreted as a delay compared to previous communications.

The automaker laid out the timeline at an investor conference in New York this week, along with updates on point-to-point driving, its Uber robotaxi deal, and what LiDAR now costs it: “a few hundred dollars.”

BMW opened orders for the 2027 i3 early after strong initial demand. The all-new electric sedan can drive up to 468 miles on a single charge, but it’s not exactly cheap.

Tesla’s planned solar factory in Texas has landed in the middle of a US patent lawsuit between two Chinese solar equipment makers, both chasing the ingot-growing furnaces Tesla needs to hit its 100 GW goal.

Linton Crystal Technologies, a Rochester, New York company wholly owned by China’s Dalian Linton, sued Zhejiang Jingsheng in a Texas federal court last week. Chinese industry reports say Jingsheng won a roughly 3 billion yuan (about $420 million) Tesla order for crystal pullers earlier this year.

The Range Rover Sport EV is bringing new levels of performance with an all-electric powertrain, but it isn’t cheap.

A Nasdaq-listed company worth about $2.4 million says it wants to buy 500 Tesla Robotaxis. KIDZ AI, formerly an online coding school for kids, announced today that it sent Tesla a “procurement inquiry” for the vehicles and plans an “Autonomous Fleet Operations Strategy.”

If the name doesn’t ring a bell, the playbook should. Tesla’s Robotaxi is turning into what bitcoin treasuries were for failing micro-caps in 2025: a buzzword you bolt onto a dying business to get the stock moving.

Just last week, Geely announced it would roll out 2.2 megawatt chargers, able to charge an EV in under 5 minutes. Those chargers are now already in service in 5 cities, with 15,000 charging sites planned by the end of next year.

Meanwhile, the fastest upcoming charger in the US, a respectable 750kW, is coming sometime next year, after being pushed back from 2026.

Rapidly expanding DC fast charging company IONNA now has more than 180 sites open across the US, and EV drivers of four of its founding automakers’ brands can now get discounts when they plug in.

Tesla opened $30 billion in lines of credit according to a regulatory filing today. The loans come as company profits have dropped in recent years, and as Tesla guides for more spending in upcoming quarters.

BYD said the flagship sedan will feature “unprecedented disruptive technology” and will reportedly be the first EV to use its solid-state batteries.

GM said it will be the world’s first to mass-produce prismatic LMR battery cells. The new battery tech can deliver 33% higher energy density than LFP at a comparable cost.

Lucid Air owners are finally getting the Gravity’s interface. Lucid started pushing Air UX 3.0 today as part of software version 2.11.0, its biggest Air software overhaul in years.

Owners of 2025 and newer Airs get it for free over the air. But if you bought a 2022, 2023, or some 2024 Air, you’ll first need a $950 infotainment processor upgrade at a Lucid service center.

An 11-year-old boy in Florida has found himself with a traffic citation, a towed electric motorcycle, and a court date after police caught him riding a high-powered electric dirt bike in lieu of an electric bicycle on public roads.

As Amazon’s early fall Prime Day deals are in full swing, we have a bunch of Amazon deals being led by the Mango Prime Fall Sale with up to 72% discounts on its Power E bundles, like the 14kWh setup with 2x Power E CATL stations, 2x batteries, and an mSocket Pro at its $4,199 2026 low. Right behind that is Segway’s Navimow i105N Robot Lawn Mower at its $669 annual low, as well as a roundup of Tapo security devices starting from $32, like the C660 4K Wireless Outdoor Solar Security Camera at its $107 low. There’s also a solar bundle for Jackery’s 1,070Wh Explorer 1000 V2 power station, and a bunch more early Prime Day deals waiting for you below. You can find the hangover deals from yesterday down at the bottom of the page, like the massive Anker SOLIX Early Prime Day Sale lineup, Lectric’s 3-day Tailgating e-bike flash sale lineup, 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.

Tesla (TSLA) got the SEC’s blessing today to let retail shareholders sign up for a standing instruction that automatically votes their shares the way Tesla’s board recommends, at every meeting, until they cancel it.

The timing is hard to ignore. Tesla still hasn’t scheduled its 2026 annual meeting, and Elon Musk keeps teasing a SpaceX merger that could hand him a big chunk of his $1 trillion pay package without hitting a single operational goal.

Kia introduced the new PV5 Chassis Cab, an open-bed model with “endless” conversion options, including a tipper, food truck, or even a camper.

EVgo has previewed a new DC fast charging system capable of delivering up to 750 kW. The system will share power among charging stalls, adjusting the amount delivered to each EV as its battery’s needs change. That, of course, will be subject to what power is available across the system.

Hyundai has officially launched the Ioniq V in China, starting for a limited time at under $15,000 – a budget EV, but without budget specs. The Chinese rollout comes ahead of a planned global launch.

But, as usual, if you’re reading this from America, you can’t have it.

A five-stop concert tour in Quebec ran entirely on two Chevrolet Silverado EVs and a 150 kWh mobile power plant this summer. No diesel generator, and no hookup to the grid.

I went to the final show, held in a grocery store parking lot in Montreal’s Saint-Henri neighborhood, and everything from the speakers to the stage lights to the kitchen was running off batteries.

Hyundai is preparing to introduce two new electric SUVs, the IONIQ 4 and IONIQ 7, filling two key gaps in its EV lineup.

Tesla was just granted a patent for an “Electric Fan Car,” a system that uses four electric ducted fans in the rear diffuser to suck the car down to the road at any speed. The car in the drawings is a Model S, which Tesla stopped building in April.

It’s Tesla’s second fan car patent in just over a year, and it arrives two weeks before the company’s latest attempt at a Roadster demo.

On today’s completely predictable episode of Quick Charge, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the weather looks like it’ll be too rough to show off his new “flying” Roadster 2.0 on October 1st, so he’s pushing the reveal back another two weeks – but after 9 years of moving goal posts and broken promises, what’s a few more weeks?

The US lost 36,949 clean energy jobs in 2025, ending four straight years of growth. That’s the direct impact of the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress rolling back federal support for clean energy and EVs, which led companies to cancel or scale back projects.

Lexus confirmed the 2027 TZ will go on sale later this year with prices starting under $65,000. The electric SUV will offer up to 315 miles of range on a single charge.

New York City lawmakers are preparing this week to consider a sweeping new package of micromobility legislation, with more than 20 bills aimed at e-bikes, electric scooters, mopeds, delivery apps, and enforcement.

Renewables and battery storage are projected to add about 82.7 gigawatts (GW) of new generating capacity in the US in the next 12 months, while total fossil fuel and nuclear power capacity will fall by more than 1.4 GW, according to new data released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), and reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign.

Tesla has officially pushed its Roadster demo from October 1 to October 15, blaming “severe conditions” in the forecast for central Texas.

It’s the latest in a long line of delays for the next-gen Roadster, and this one moves the event back two full weeks for what Tesla describes as a weather problem.

Kia is preparing to introduce a new interior setup for its upcoming vehicles. The setup includes a larger center display and Hyundai’s advanced new infotainment system.

Kickstarting this week’s Green Deals is the newly launched Anker SOLIX Early-Access Fall Prime Deals Sale with up to 40% discounts, FREE gifts, refurbished deals, and exclusive bonus savings, like the 2,010Wh S2000 Power Station with a 400W solar panel down at an exclusive $1,102 ($2 above low), among many others. We’ve got Lectric’s 3-Day Tailgating Flash Sale, with increased savings on the XP4 750 Long-Range Folding Utility e-bike and a FREE $474 bundle for $1,299, as well as others. There’s also up to 37% savings on Greenworks chainsaws and pole saws starting from $100, as well as a one-day-only deal for Jackery’s 1,070Wh Explorer 1000 V2 Power Station down at $449, and more waiting for you below. As we do with every Monday edition, all the hangover deals from last week can be found down at the bottom of the page within our latest Electrified Weekly roundup.

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.

Wall Street can’t agree on how many cars Tesla (TSLA) sold in Q3 2026. Estimates from major banks range from 421,758 to 482,000 deliveries ahead of Friday’s report.

That’s a 60,000-unit spread. And after the Street missed Tesla’s Q2 deliveries by 74,000 units, nobody has much credibility on this one.

The Department of Transportation has finalized new fuel economy standards that will raise gas prices by 76 cents a gallon and fuel use by 44%, right as the world struggles with the effects of a war of choice that has spiked energy prices globally, reaching all-time highs in the US.

Update: This article was originally published on September 2, when DoT said the change would be announced “soon.” The rule is now finalized, officially putting US on a path towards irrelevance for the US auto industry and much higher fuel costs for Americans.

Chery’s Omoda and Jaecoo brands have launched a Canadian website confirming that their “premium electric SUVs” will arrive in Canada in late 2026.

The site doesn’t name a single model, price, or dealer yet. But the Chinese automaker’s global lineup gives a pretty clear idea of what Canadians could get, and it’s heavy on plug-in hybrids.

Volkswagen is taking its best-seller electric. The ID. Tiguan will replace the ID.4 and ID.5 as part of Volkswagen’s revamped lineup in 2027.

Update 9/28: Tesla has since confirmed that it’s rescheduling the Roadster event to October 15, citing “severe conditions predicted.” We have more on the two-week delay here.

Tesla is warning guests invited to its October 1 Roadster event that the long-delayed demo could get pushed back again, and this time it’s the weather.

In an email to invitees, Tesla says the event “must be held outdoors” and may need to be rescheduled. And the forecast for central Texas on Thursday calls for an 82% chance of rain, with thunderstorms.

The deployed fleet of ultra heavy-duty trucks and mining equipment assets powered by Volvo Autonomous Solutions reached a major milestone last week, hauling their 3 millionth tonne of material out of the mines without a human driver.

Geely is buying into NIO’s battery swap network. NIO announced definitive agreements on Sunday that hand a Geely Holding subsidiary 30% of NIO Power, the unit running its swap stations and chargers, at a post-money valuation of about RMB16 billion ($2.4 billion).

Most of what Geely is paying isn’t cash. It’s contributing its own commercial battery swap business plus RMB640 million ($94 million), while NIO takes 10% of Geely’s charging arm in a parallel deal.

For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about whether our Electrek readers who should be held responsible when AI fails, and people get hurt. After nearly 3,000 responses, here’s what you told us.

Mazda’s CX-6e just got a major tech update in the form of a new LiDAR suite that makes the sporty electric SUV capable of delivering “advanced L2” autonomy, navigation on autopilot (NOA), and automated parking.

The all-electric Dodge Charger Daytona may not have been a stunning sales success with either EV fans or the Mopar faithful, but that didn’t change the fact that it’s one of the most competent straight-line performance cars ever built – and now, Hallmark is making it easier than ever to park one under a Christmas tree.

Back in April, we ran a sidebar survey about how much Electrek readers think gas would need to cost to convince the most dedicated anti-EV hysterics to switch to a plug-in car. After receiving over 2,800 responses, here’s what you told us.

UPDATE 26SEP2026: a gallon of BP ultimate 93 octane is $7.19 in Chicago.

The latest leaf vacuum, mulcher, and blower three-in-one from electric tool brand EGO promises fully 210 mph of blowing power and enough mulching mayhem to turn 16 bags of autumn leaves into just one for easy fall cleanup.

The Finnish EV charging experts at Kempower are bringing high-speed electric vehicle charging infrastructure to all of Canada’s DP World Canadian terminal operations – and the first two sites are online NOW.

Renault has been dropping jaws with its all-electric retro redos in recent years, and someone over there has seem committed to keeping the party going with the launch of this all-new Renault Gordini 8 concept EV.

You-know-who might be grabbing headlines by rolling a few trucks off the assembly line, but fleets overseas have been putting electric semi trucks to work for years – and shipping fleet JUNA just announced the deployment of its 110th (!) big BEV.

BYD announced its new flagship electric sedan will launch next month with over 1,000 km (621 mi) of range on a single charge. Pre-orders opened last month, starting at around $37,000.

Drive Electric Month continues this week with over 150 online and in-person events celebrating electric vehicles through most of September and the start of October. Events will be held for the next few weekends, with events in most US states, and one in Canada.

And in the midst of a global oil price spike with US prices at record highs, there couldn’t be a better time to learn how to become energy independent.

(Update: We’re updating the article to add some new upcoming events each weekend over the course of the month)

We’re closing out this week with a bunch of Prime Day deals, starting at Bluetti’s recently launched Early Prime Day Sale with FREE gifts and our exclusive bonus savings code, offering deals like the 2,765Wh Apex 300 Portable Power Station down at $1,424. Speaking of power stations, we also secured two exclusive deals on Jackery’s 3,584Wh HomePower 3600 Plus Power Station to $1,299, while the 2,048Wh HomePower 2000 Plus V2 Power Station is down at $799, undercutting the brand’s current sale by hundreds. We also have roborock’s RockMow X115H and X130H Robot Lawn Mowers at new lows starting from $1,400, and one-day-only deals on the Anker eufy SoloCam S220 2-Cam Kit with HomeBase 3, as well as Greenworks’ 60V 16-inch Attachment Capable String Trimmer. Don’t forget about all the hangover deals from this week that can be found down at the bottom of the page, like the yesterday’s Anker eufy Early Prime Day Sale lineup of security and cleaning deals, the EcoFlow weekend EcoCredits flash sale, 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.

The Genesis GV90 has a pretty cool trick up its sleeve. Its pop-up 24.6″ OLED display can transform the cabin into a private luxury movie theater, complete with a 25-speaker Bang & Olufsen 3D Sound System.

The EU won’t vote on Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” on October 6. The draft agenda for the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) meeting lists only a 25-minute “continuation of discussions” on the Dutch request to extend its FSD approval EU-wide.

The committee doesn’t meet again until December, so that’s now the earliest a Tesla FSD EU vote can happen. And Tesla had been pointing to October 6.

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 the Tesla Semi launch, Geely’s battery healing fast-charging, Rivian R3, and more.

Volkswagen is marking down 2025 ID.4 models with a $12,500 customer cash discount to move inventory.

A new Tesla patent application describes a two-piece active rear wing that hides flush in the bodywork and can produce up to 700 kg of downforce once deployed. The car in the drawings looks a lot like the next-generation Tesla Roadster.

The USPTO published the filing on September 24, a week before the Roadster unveiling Tesla has scheduled for October 1 in Texas.

Tesla is now building several hundred Optimus humanoid robots per week at Fremont, roughly 10 times its Q2 output, according to a new report. But the robots coming off the line still can’t handle generalized tasks – limiting their usefulness.

The report also describes fragile hands, misaligned parts on the assembly line, and suppliers that can’t hold quality at volume. Those are the two problems that decide whether humanoid robots make money: generalization and reliability.

The 2027 Lexus TZ is the first purely electric three-row SUV from Toyota’s luxury brand. Ahead of its upcoming launch, the electric TZ was spotted driving in public for the first time.

Geely says its new AI-powered fast charging system can reverse some of the battery damage caused by fast charging, using micro-pulse currents to add up to 20% more cycle life.

Charging a car in under 5 minutes is great, but not if it wears the battery out years early. Geely claims that its ‘Smart Charging’ addresses that and it is using something that sounds like sorcery.

The developers and electricians at Green Water & Power are celebrating a significant EV charging milestone this month with the deployment and energization of its 10,000th electric vehicle charging port – in just three years. (!)

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new e-bikes from Segway and Honda, South Park takes on e-bikes, Rivian’s e-bikes are rolling out to everyone except for customers, Royal Enfield’s e-moto gets a Western price, and more.

Tesla officially launched high-volume production of the Tesla Semi last night at its new dedicated factory in Nevada, a plant it says can build 50,000 electric trucks per year.

The Class 8 truck was unveiled in 2017 with production promised for 2019. Seven years later, Tesla says deliveries “start now,” and it detailed a heavily redesigned truck in a 13-post thread on X.

Volkswagen’s electric minibus will not return for the 2027 model year as expected, after another delay.

Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” broke the speed limit in 55% of the 30 km/h segments a Belgian road safety group tested in Brussels, averaging 44 km/h where the legal limit is 30 km/h.

The results land less than two weeks before EU member states vote on approving FSD across the whole bloc. And speeding is exactly the issue Sweden and France have already flagged.

NHTSA has opened a formal investigation into comma.ai’s aftermarket driver assistance devices after five crashes where cars running openpilot plowed into stopped or slow-moving vehicles in their own lane. Two of those crashes killed three people.

The probe covers an estimated 30,000 comma three, comma 3X, and comma four devices. It’s the biggest regulatory problem for George Hotz’s startup since NHTSA pushed it to cancel its first product back in 2016.

Being a one-car family works great right up until the moment two people need to be in two different places. Maybe your spouse took the car to work, but you need to grab groceries. Maybe you’ve got to pick up a kid from daycare. Perhaps you’re meeting a friend for coffee, heading to the gym, or just running some mundane errand that happens to require going a few miles across town.

Those are the moments when a second car starts sounding awfully convenient.

Building on its nearly 10-year history, Mercedes-Benz secured first rights to ProLogium’s latest Gen4 solid-state EV battery cells.

Following right alongside the early Amazon Prime Day deals that are live, we’ve got two new Prime Day sales leading today’s Green Deals. First, there’s the massive Anker eufy Early Prime Day Sale with up to 46% savings on security and cleaning devices, like the SoloCam S340 Solar Security 4-Cam Pack with a HomeBase S380 and 1TB hard drive at a $620 low, among many others. Next is EcoFlow’s Prime Day + September Monthly Madness flash sale with two EcoCredit promotions alongside four power station deals starting from $938. We also spotted the EGO 56V 21-inch Cordless Electric Snow Blower with either 2x or 3x 5.0Ah batteries starting from $649, as well as the final days of Lectric’s XPress2 Long-Range Cruiser e-bike backorder bundle for a FREE $723 extra battery package at $1,399, a 40V Worx string trimmer 2x battery bundle, and more down below. There are also the hangover deals from the last few days that can be found down at the bottom of the page, like the yesterday’s exclusive $1,000 savings on Jackery’s 5,040Wh Explorer 5000 Plus power station to the $2,499 annual 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.

BYD revealed the second-generation Seagull inside and out in a series of sketches: a bigger, smarter version of its most affordable EV.

Kia’s off-road electric SUV might be real after all. New patent images reveal what could be the production version of the EV9 ADVNTR.

Tesla has lined up at least 11 Semi electric trucks wearing customer logos outside its new Nevada factory, a clear sign that the automaker plans to parade its fleet customers at tonight’s Semi launch event.

A drone flyover of the plant shows trucks branded for PepsiCo, US Foods, DHL, WattEV, ABF, Einride, IMC, OK Produce, and a few others parked in a neat row by the factory.

Waymo has released new crash data which claims not only an 82% reduction in crashes, but for the first time says the number of injuries that have been avoided by its robotaxi operation.

BMW will open US reservations for the new i3 early, now scheduled for next week.

Volkswagen launched the new ID. Buzz Cargo with a longer wheelbase, offering more space and updated software. Prices start at about $60,000, but a cheaper version will go on sale soon.

Bentley has unveiled the Torcal, its first all-electric vehicle, at a global debut in London today. It’s an SUV with up to 888 PS (876 hp), a 113 kWh battery, and up to 375 miles (600 km WLTP) of range.

The Torcal becomes Bentley’s fourth model line, alongside the Continental GT, Flying Spur, and Bentayga. It’s designed, engineered, and built in Crewe, England.

Leading our midweek Green Deals is the exclusive 5,040Wh Jackery Explorer 5000 Plus Portable Power Station undercutting the brand’s early Prime Day Sale with $1000 savings to the $2,499 annual low. We also have the Bluetti 6th Anniversary Power Week Sale on its last day with exclusive savings from $799, as well as the Worx GT 3.0 20V 12-inch 2-in-1 Cordless String Trimmer and Edger coming with 2x batteries and a spool at an $80 2026 low. From there, we have the 700 CFM Greenworks 80V Cordless Electric Leaf Blower with $60 savings, as well as some outdoor-ready devices for lighting, cooking, warmth, and more. There are also the hangover deals from the last two days that can be found down at the bottom of the page, like the yesterday’s full Jackery Early Access Prime Day Sale lineup, the Lectric Car-Free flash sale with up to $804 e-bike savings, 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.

Ford has filed for a new patent showing a multi-use tailgate on the front end of a truck, with the possibility of putting a whole television inside the tailgate. It seems likely to apply to the upcoming Fathom.

Toyota is preparing to introduce the electric version of its best-selling car of all time, the Corolla.

The Pixo is back, but this time it’s an all-electric city cruiser set to become Nissan’s most affordable EV starting under $25,000.

Tesla’s racism trial in California opened Monday with a bad day for the company’s lawyers. The first witness testified that a senior Tesla in-house attorney had called him last week and let him believe he was working for the state, according to Law360 (paywall).

That same morning, Tesla’s outside counsel told the judge the N-word is a “term of respect and endearment” in the Black community. Both happened in front of Judge Peter Borkon, the one person who will decide the case.

An Intertek lab in the UK found just 3.4 ppm of lithium in a sample of Donut Lab’s “solid-state” battery, and the Finnish startup is now using that result to argue its cell is neither lithium-ion nor sodium-ion.

But the report measured just two elements, on a cell Donut Lab took apart itself. And nine months after CES, there’s still no production vehicle running on the battery.

General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric are running a deal to give new EV buyers a free charger, get paid to charge, and save the grid all at the same time. What’s not to love?

With more than 250 km (~155 miles) of battery-only range, genuine off-road capability, and a range extending ICE motor that pushes total range well past 1,000 km (~620 miles), VinFast’s new VF Wild is shaping up to be an interesting entry in the electrified truck race.

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says the upcoming R3 crossover will come in “materially lower” than the R2 on price, and that a follow-up model, the R4, will push prices down further still.

He didn’t give a number. But it’s the clearest sign yet that Rivian plans to keep walking its lineup down toward the heart of the market after the R2 launch.

Porsche’s upcoming Boxster EV has been spotted in California, Supercharging at a Tesla Supercharger, adding to speculation over the car’s release timing and details.

The 2027 iX3 is just arriving at dealerships, and BMW wants to keep drivers with the brand by offering an early loyalty discount.

Tesla has been named the primary truck supplier for the largest electric Class 8 order in US history: 2,500 battery-electric trucks bought through a new shipper alliance called ZET SCALE.

The order on its own would nearly double the number of electric Class 8 trucks on US roads, and the alliance says it’s targeting more than 10,000 over time.

The bZ3X is the best-selling EV produced by a joint venture in China. A right-hand drive version was spotted testing overseas, suggesting Toyota will bring the popular electric SUV to global markets.

Following right along with yesterday’s early Prime Day coverage, we have today’s Green Deals led by the freshly launched Jackery Early Access Prime Big Deal Days Sale with up to 65% power station discounts, like the new 3,584Wh HomePower 3600 Pro Max Power Station down at $1,799, among others. Right behind that is Lectric’s 4-Day World Car-Free Flash Sale with up to $804 savings on e-bikes and 30% extra battery discounts – with e-bike prices starting from $799. There’s also the 2026 Greenworks 24V 20-inch Cordless Electric Hedge Trimmer at a $90 low, the BLACK+DECKER 12A 3-in-1 Electric Leaf Blower, Vacuum, Mulcher at a $79 2026 low, and more waiting down below. As always, there are hangover deals from yesterday that can be found down at the bottom of the page, like the EcoFlow Early Prime Day Sale lineup of deals, the 2026 low on EGO’s 21-inch snow blower with 2x batteries, 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.

Volkswagen’s new family of entry-level electric cars is proving to be more popular than its internal combustion engine vehicles.

Mercedes-Benz has signed a definitive production agreement with British self-driving startup Wayve to build its “AI Driver” into future Mercedes vehicles, with integration starting within the next two years.

It’s the first time Wayve’s end-to-end driving AI is going into a production car in the premium segment, and it deepens a relationship that already includes Mercedes investing in Wayve’s $1.5 billion Series D round earlier this year.

Tesla’s newest Full Self-Driving update, v14.3.9, is telling owners their cameras are dirty when they aren’t — and sending them to service to fix a problem that doesn’t exist.

Tesla has confirmed the bug and is canceling the service appointments it triggered. A fix is expected in a coming update.

Waymo is now offering a $2.85 credit to any rider who pairs their ride with public transit, expanding a pilot program it previously ran in two cities – but it’s only available for Visa users, for now.

Tesla’s active robotaxi fleet in Austin has fallen back to just 8 vehicles over the past seven days, according to data from community tracker Robotaxi Tracker.

That’s about the same number Tesla had on the road when it launched the service in June 2025. Fifteen months of promises, and no net growth. A surge following the “launch of the Cybercab” quickly dissipated.

Honda is best known for motorcycles, cars, generators, lawnmowers, robots, jets… basically anything with a motor attached to it. But now the Japanese giant appears ready to add another two-wheeler to that list: an electric mountain bike.

A study of millions of UK vehicles shows that electric cars stay on the road longer than petrol cars, and the gap widens as mileage increases.

The EV3 starts at $29,890 as Kia’s most affordable electric SUV, so how much does it cost to lease?

Geely plans to unveil an advanced electric car battery and charging system on Wednesday, allowing for 4 minute charges and charging speeds that are about 50% faster than Chinese rival BYD’s newest “Flash Charging 2.0” system.

Ceer revealed EXOBOT on Monday, the new flagship electric SUV and sedan from Saudi Arabia’s first EV brand and auto manufacturer.

Leading this week’s Monday Green Deals is the newly launched EcoFlow Early Prime Day Fall Sale with increased power station savings up to 57%, FREE gifts with purchases of $600 or more, and a bonus extra savings code. One notable offer that doesn’t have a short-term flash window is the 3,072Wh DELTA 3 Ultra Plus Power Station with a 500W modular solar panel down at $1,899, among many other offers. There’s also the brand’s first early Prime Day flash sale with up to $2000 power station savings starting from $839. From there, we spotted the EGO 21-inch Cordless Electric Snow Blower with 2x 7.5Ah batteries getting increased savings to a $949 2026 low, as well as the Worx 20V JawSaw Cordless Electric PowerShare Chainsaw down at $87, and some ongoing soon-to-end sales. As it is the start of a new week, the hangover deals from last week can be found down at the bottom of the page, collected together in our latest edition of Electrified Weekly roundups.

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.

Toyota is the latest carmaker with plans to launch an extended-range electric vehicle (EREV), expected to arrive next year.

Tesla goes on trial today over allegations that its flagship Fremont factory subjected thousands of Black workers to racial slurs, segregation, and lower pay. The case is brought by the state of California, covers more than 6,000 workers, and carries no cap on damages.

It’s the biggest of the many discrimination cases Tesla has been fighting since 2017, and the first one brought by a government agency to reach a full trial.

I drove 854.2 km (530.8 miles) with the 2026 Chevrolet Bolt EV 2RS, with a brand-new powertrain for its rebirth, over a week. Back roads, cities, and highways were on the menu, with the usual fast charging from very low SOC. How did it fare?

The Seagull is BYD’s most affordable EV, starting at about $10,000 in China. In Europe, the UK, and other markets, it’s sold as the Dolphin Surf or Mini, but BYD is preparing to launch a larger variant that may be an even “bigger” hit.

South Park has finally come for e-bikes. And perhaps surprisingly, underneath all the explosions, biker gangs, racist caricatures, and general South Park-ness of it all, the show actually managed to make some pretty insightful observations about the current state of e-bikes in America.

The ID. Cross is a “true Volkswagen,” adding a more affordable electric SUV to the lineup with prices starting at around $32,000.

Elon Musk says the Boring Company is working on a 200-mph “Hyperloop” tunnel between Austin and San Antonio that would cut the drive to under 30 minutes. He posted the claim on X this weekend with no route, no timeline, and no cost.

It’s a version of a promise Musk has been making for more than a decade. So far, he hasn’t built any of them.

Sunrun and Tesla pulled a record 580 megawatts of power from home batteries onto California’s grid during a heat wave on September 9, the largest residential distributed power plant event ever recorded.

The dispatch pooled more than 140,000 home batteries across the state and ran for a three-hour window in the evening, when the grid was straining under air-conditioning load.

A joint venture between Chinese carmaker SAIC and German car brand Audi, the all-electric AUDI (all caps) brand has been turning heads in the Chinese market with solid all-weather performance, reasonable prices and plenty of chunky Teutonic style. Now, AUDI cars are turning up in Europe — and Audi is pissed.

Tesla has reopened reservations for its next-generation Roadster, asking buyers for a $50,000 deposit about two weeks before the car is even unveiled.

The reserve page went live this week ahead of an October 1 reveal near Waco, Texas. It’s the second time Tesla has collected $50,000 for the Roadster. The first batch of deposit-holders is still waiting, nearly nine years later.

Following the debut of its Formula 1 team earlier this year, GM’s global ambitions for flagship luxury brand Cadillac continue to unfold in the 2027 model year as the ultra-hot V-series Lyriq-V EV makes its way to dealers Down Under.

Last week, a number of diesel stations in California appeared on social media with the prices pinned at 9.99 – the highest number the pumps could display. Today, the pictures are showing something different: gas stations that are out of diesel entirely.

Chinese battery brand Sunwoda has just revealed a new EV battery charging system that can add 100 km (~62 miles) of range to an EV every minute, and can take a battery from from 10-97% SOC in less than 10 minutes. At room temperature.

If you’ve ever wanted to own a genuine piece of electric vehicle vaporware history, now might be your chance. One of the most interesting artifacts from SONDORS’ more ambitious days has just surfaced for sale on eBay: the company’s three-wheeled electric car prototype.

We’ve all heard about the Strait of Hormuz, currently closed to most ship traffic as a result of a now six month long war of choice that seems to have no real strategy attached.

But that’s just one of many oil conflicts that are currently affecting oil availability… and electric cars have nothing to do with any of them.

What would you choose with up to $120,000 to spend on a fully customized EV – a Lucid Air, Rivian R1S, Porsche Macan Electric, BMW i7, or perhaps two EVs instead of one?

After nearly a year of operation on a dedicated track line at the Jimblebar iron ore mine in Australia, BHP is proving that these 4,400 hp battery-electric powered heavy-haul locomotives are ready for prime time.

UPDATE 19SEP2026: there’s a video!

In a move that challenges Orange Juicer and Buick Electra for the highly coveted Best Name in the EV Business title, a new venture between CATL and Octopus Energy called “Swaptopus” has been formed to build out a European battery swap network for commercial trucks.

Buried in a press release titled, “Even more colours and even greater convenience for the Cayenne Electric” was news that Porsche, for the first time, would be offering electrically wireless inductive charging on its impressively powerful Cayenne Electric SUV.

Moving millions of tons of coal, sugar, and other bulk cargo is serious business, and decarbonizing that business presents a number of unique challenges – especially when loading and unloading. That’s what makes the new MV Yampu so interesting: it’s the world’s first self-loading and unloading bulk cargo vessel!

Toyota led US new EV sales growth last month with a refreshed lineup of electric SUVs.

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 the Tesla Roadster getting a reveal date, VW XL1 coming back electric, BYD’s new Tesla fighter, and more.

Chinese automakers like BYD are quickly taking over global markets with low-cost electric vehicles, and Hyundai Motor’s CEO Jose Munoz warned the US could be next without safeguards.

We’re closing out the week’s Green Deals with a jam-packed edition, led by Anker’s SOLIX E10 Whole-Home Backup System Sale with exclusive bonus savings that starts the pricing from a $3,799 low. Right behind it is an exclusive $700 discount on Heybike’s ALPHA All-Terrain Mid-Drive e-bike at its $1,099 low, followed by an EcoFlow flash sale that gives you the upper-tier 3,072Wh DELTA 3 Ultra Plus Power Station with a 500W modular solar panel down at $1,899, among other units. We also have EGO’s Multi-Head System with an 8-inch Carbon-Fiber Edger Attachment at a new $173 low, the roborock RockMow X115H and X130H Robot Mowers at all-time lows from $1,500, as well as low prices on a 24V 4.0Ah Greenworks battery 2-pack, the meross two-zone smart water timer, and more. There’s also the hangover deals from this week at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s Tenways End of Season e-bike sale with up to $807 savings, the Mammotion LUBA Mini 2 AWD robot mower bundle, and others.

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.

BMW can’t build the new iX3 fast enough, with over 100,000 orders and production now running around the clock. Some in the US may get a chance to get theirs early.

XPeng is trying to turn its self-driving and smart-cockpit systems into a licensing business, courting automakers, suppliers, and software firms well beyond its existing Volkswagen deal, according to a Reuters report.

It’s the exact playbook Tesla has been pitching for years with “Full Self-Driving.” The difference is that XPeng is finding interest.

The Volkswagen ID. Buzz set a new Guinness World Record for “the most countries visited in a continuous journey” by an EV, covering nearly 100,000 km across 92 countries.

Australia just switched on its longest-duration grid battery, and it runs on 144 Tesla Megapacks.

RWE’s Limondale battery in New South Wales can discharge for a full eight hours — four times longer than the two-hour batteries that dominate the Australian grid. It’s the first project of its kind in the country.

This week, the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in a bipartisan vote to renew funding for the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA), passing the measure 343-79 and extending federal funding for cleaner medium- and heavy-duty vehicles through 2029.

New York City’s largest food rescue organization is helping Bronx residents breathe a little bit easier with the recent acquisition and upcoming deployment of three brand-new, zero emission Volvo VNR Electric semi trucks.

UPDATE 17SEP2026: Now, you can ride along!

Hyundai’s electric van is bigger than the Kia PV5 and Volkswagen ID. Buzz, with enough room for nine passengers.

BYD introduced the upgraded Yuan Up, sold overseas as the Atto 2, with more range and a lower starting price.

Our Thursday Green Deals this week are primarily focused on e-bikes and tools, starting with Tenways’ closeout End of Season Sale, with offers like the CGO600 Pro Lightweight Chain-Drive Commuter e-bike with the usual $118 FREE bundle alongside a FREE medium-size pannier bag at $1,599, among others. We also spotted the 2026 Mammotion LUBA Mini 2 AWD 1500H Robot Lawn Mower with a garage and a FREE wash stand down at $1,699. There’s also the EGO 56V 16-inch Carbon-Fiber Cordless Electric String Trimmer with POWERLOAD and Line IQ tech at $259, the Jetson Bolt Pro Compact e-bike down at $400, and some additional deals for you down below. There’s also the hangover deals from the last two days at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s increased savings to new lows on ENGWE’s E26 3.0 full suspension e-bike and Eagle electric dirt bike, Anker’s eufyCam C37 4K solar security camera 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.

Volvo is going on the offensive with 13 new electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles coming by 2030. The upcoming models will feature a new design and revamped interior.

Tesla is going to operate public Megacharger sites at three electric truck depots it doesn’t own. Forum Mobility, one of the largest heavy-duty charging operators in the US, says Tesla will run public Megacharging at three of four new California depots it’s about to break ground on.

The move comes as Forum brings another 30 MW of heavy-duty charging online and sits on reservations for more than 330 Tesla Semis. It’s the clearest sign yet that Tesla’s Semi charging network is getting built through partners, not just Tesla-owned stations.

Kia aims to sell 250,000 electric vans by 2030, with the PV7 and PV9 accounting for a larger share combined than the PV5.

Royal Enfield’s new Flying Flea electric motorcycle has officially spread its wings beyond India, with the retro-inspired C6 now launching in Europe and the UK. And perhaps just as importantly, we finally know what Western riders can expect to pay for it.

Lucid and Bolt announced a partnership today to build and deploy autonomous vehicles across Europe, with the ride-hailing platform aiming to put at least 25,000 self-driving Lucid EVs on its network.

It’s the second big autonomous-fleet deal Lucid has signed in just over a year. And it rides on a vehicle platform the company delayed six weeks ago.

This week, Windrose founder and CEO Wen Han made heavy truck history by putting the CAD models for all 1,023 parts from the X9D01 base model of his Windrose E700 Class 8 electric truck online. For free.

Solid-state battery specialist Factorial Energy is teaming up with Mitsui Kinzoku, one of the few companies producing sulfide-based solid electrolytes, to scale up the promising new technology.

Ausom made a name for itself with a growing lineup of electric scooters that offers everything from practical single-motor commuters to seriously quick dual-motor thrill rides without breaking the bank. This month, the brand’s awesome Fall Sale is making the Ausom brand’s high-performance value proposition even more compelling!

Tesla is putting its Cybercab on public display in China this week, but the company wants to be clear about one thing it isn’t: a vehicle it plans to sell there.

Tesla China said the showcase “does not involve” selling the Cybercab in the Chinese market or launching a driverless ride-hailing service — even as China’s own robotaxi operators run paid rides at scale.

Kia’s biggest electric SUV is being marked down by more than $15,000 at some dealers.

ENGWE and Anker eufy are dominating our midweek Green Deals. First up is the increased savings on ENGWE’s latest E26 3.0 Dual-Motor Full Suspension All-Terrain e-bike with a FREE $343 bundle at a new $1,499 low, followed by the brand’s Eagle Electric Dirt Bike with up to a $276 FREE bundle at a new $899 low. Behind that, we have the Anker eufyCam C37 4K Wireless Solar Security Camera down at a $100 low (as well as a low for its 2K counterpart), or you can get a fully comprehensive system with the one-day-only deal on the eufyCam S4 4K Triple-Laser PTZ Solar 4-Cam Kit with a Hombase 3 hub and a smart display at a $1,195 low. There’s also some additional deals waiting down below for you, as well as the hangover deals from the last two days at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s Velotric Adventure Season Sale that dropped the Summit 1 Multi-Terrain e-bike to $1,699, the rare Husqvarna Power Axe 225i chainsaw deal for the best price in two years, and others.

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.

The Formula S series includes the first sedan and GT, launched under BYD’s Fang Cheng Bao. Starting at under $29,000, the electric sedan is cheaper than a Tesla Model 3.

Tesla deployed its first “Accordion” Supercharger, a pre-assembled charging unit that ships 16 stalls on a single truck and installs 20% cheaper than a conventional site.

Tesla’s charging team says the goal is now to pre-assemble every Supercharger in a factory. It’s a smart move, and one the company badly needs after two years of slower deployment.

Volkswagen revealed the new ID.3 GTI, a new electric hot hatch that’s more powerful than the Golf GTI. It’s VW’s most powerful GTI ever.

Rivian spin-off ALSO is finally getting its futuristic TM-B electric bikes out across the United States.

Unfortunately for the customers who ordered them nearly a year ago, those bikes aren’t headed to their garages. They’re headed on tour.

Hyundai’s electric SUV is still one of the most affordable EVs available, starting at $35,000. The IONIQ 5 is a bit more expensive to lease this month, but it’s hard to pass up with 0% APR financing or up to a $5,000 discount.

NHTSA has ordered Tesla to prove that its Cybercab is even legal to sell. The agency issued a formal Special Order on September 10 demanding that the company show, under oath, how a vehicle with no steering wheel, no pedals, and no mirrors complies with federal safety standards written for human drivers.

Tesla has until September 30 to respond. Failing to answer fully and truthfully carries penalties of up to $139 million.

BYD calls it the industry’s first AI-powered smart luxury SUV. The new Denza N8L EV is an all-electric version of the current plug-in hybrid (PHEV), starting at 299,800 yuan, or about $45,000.

Tesla will finally unveil its new Roadster on October 1, more than eight years after it first showed the car in 2017. And a teaser this weekend suggests the production version is getting Tesla’s “Cyber” design treatment.

The teaser shows SpaceX cold gas thrusters firing out the back, and Elon Musk has promised “radical design changes.” But the Roadster never needed a redesign. It needed to ship.

We’ve got a nice mix in our Tuesday Green Deals, headlined by the latest Velotric Adventure Season Sale with up to $550 discounts, like the Summit 1 Multi-Terrain e-bike with SensorSwap tech down at $1,699, among others. We’ve also got Jackery’s Member Sale Event with a small collection of power station offers, like the new 2,048Wh HomePower 2000 Plus V2 Power Station with 2x 200W solar panels for $1,649. From there, we spotted a rare discount to the best price in two years on Husqvarna’s Power Axe 225i Cordless Electric Chainsaw with a 4.0Ah battery at $265, as well as the DEWALT 20V MAX Cordless 7-1/4-inch Miter Saw with a 4.0Ah battery at $329, the expanded 572Wh EcoFlow RIVER 3 Plus Power Station back at its Amazon low, and more waiting for you down below. There’s also all the hangover deals from yesterday at the bottom of the page, like the Anker eufy Solar Wall Light Cam S4 launch deal, Anker’s extended SOLIX Hurricane-Ready power station sale with exclusive savings, 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.

A year after it went on sale, BMW said the new iX3 has received over 100,000 orders in Europe alone, accounting for about 1 in 3 EV orders.

Shortly after Kia officially unveiled the PV7, the new electric van was spotted testing in the US.

Africa’s electric motorcycle market is about to get an interesting new combination of Chinese manufacturing scale and homegrown battery-swapping infrastructure.

Yadea, the Chinese electric two-wheeler giant that has sold more than 100 million vehicles globally, has announced a new strategic partnership with African electric mobility company Spiro. The two companies plan to work together on electric motorcycles and scooters specifically tailored to African markets while integrating those vehicles into Spiro’s rapidly growing battery-swapping network.

First Student is adding 40 electric school buses in New York City after completing the first phase of a charging project that cut infrastructure costs by 20%.

Volvo introduced the new XC60 and XC90, its first long-range plug-in hybrids. With up to 78 miles on a single charge, the new models are now America’s longest-range electric PHEVs.

July 2026 was the worst month on record for Tesla driver-assist crashes. Tesla reported 236 of them to federal regulators, the most it has ever filed in a single month.

Four of those crashes killed someone. In every one, Tesla’s own data says Autopilot or “Full Self-Driving” was engaged, and in every one, the public was never told the system was involved. This is the latest from our ongoing investigation matching Tesla’s redacted NHTSA reports to real, named crashes.

Stark Future has already turned its ridiculously powerful electric dirt bike into a street-going supermoto – upon which I recently got to cruise the streets and cities around Barcelona (more on that experience coming soon). But now the company is taking that concept in an even darker direction with the new Stark VARG SM Sköll, a limited-edition, nearly completely blacked-out version of the 80 hp electric supermoto.

New York City has chosen Brooklyn-based it’s electric to supply the hardware for its permanent curbside EV charging network, which will bring nearly 700 Level 2 charging points to all five boroughs over the next three years.

Segway is giving its compact MUXI utility e-bike a fairly significant upgrade, adding everything from automatic electronic shifting to front suspension and a higher Class 3 top speed.

The EPA finalized a proposed policy on Monday to eliminate limits on power plant pollution, saddling Americans with trillions of dollars in long-term health and environmental costs and thousands of deaths per year, in the latest step of Trump’s assault on America.

Update: This article has been updated to reflect the finalization of the rule, and with updated estimates of its cost to Americans.

On today’s long-awaited and often delayed episode of Quick Charge, we talk up the reveal of a revolutionary, world-beating, and record-setting new sporty EV, as well as the “new” Tesla Roadster that’s going to hover around a parking lot (allegedly) in October.

Kia unveiled the PV7 for the first time, its larger electric van with room for nine passengers or plenty of cargo. Here’s our first look.

The electric Highlander was set to go on sale soon as the current gas-powered SUV is phased out, but Toyota’s delay is creating a bigger headache.

With the Ford F-150 Lightning no longer available, the Chevy Silverado EV is now the most affordable full-size electric pickup you can get your hands on.

Leading our Monday Green Deals this week is the launch deals on Anker’s new HomeKit-ready and solar-charging Wall Light Cam S4, with the 2-pack bundle down at $400, for example. Right behind that, we have Anker’s extended SOLIX Hurricane-Ready power station sale with continuing Labor Day pricing, exclusive bonus savings, and FREE gifts – all starting from $231. There’s also the Monarc Marker All-Terrain Smart e-bike with a FREE extra battery and stem bag ($609 value) for $1,999, while the sibling Tracer Urban Commuter Smart e-bike gets the same FREE bundle at $1,899. Lastly there’s EcoFlow’s latest 48-hour flash sale, with four power station bundles starting from $1,379 – plus, all the hangover deals from last week are at the bottom of the page, rounded up together in our latest Electrified Weekly edition.

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.

A Tesla Cybercab rider in Austin says a 10-minute trip turned into a 70-minute ordeal after the driverless taxi took a long detour across the city.

The reason is a limitation Tesla still hasn’t solved. Its robotaxis can’t drive on highways, so a quick hop that a human would take up the freeway becomes a winding surface-street tour.

BYD is in “the leading position,” according to executive vice president Stella Li, with plans to introduce its first EV equipped with solid-state batteries in 2027.

Volkswagen just unveiled the Mission Efficiency, a concept it’s calling the world’s most efficient near-production electric car — and to me, it’s the return of the XL1, one of my all-time favorite cars, finally done as a proper EV.

BYD unveiled its most complete electric commercial vehicle lineup yet at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hannover, headlined by the ETT 44, a heavy-duty tractor with up to 600 km of range and 1.5-megawatt charging.

It’s BYD’s clearest shot yet at Europe’s heavy-truck market, and it brings the “Flash Charging” pitch the company built around its cars straight to the freight business.

The Starship 3.0 concept truck has been busy of late, testing a battery pack that uses an immersion-cooling system to manage battery heat, improve range performance, and enhance the durability of electric semi truck batteries.

Zürich Airport has deployed not one but two fully automated electric shuttle buses on the grounds of Zürich Airport. Crucially, these self-driving vehicles are operating without a human safety monitor, making Zürich one of the first airports in Europe to test L4 autonomy in a live environment.

Electric farm tractors are a great idea that hasn’t quite found a way to succeed in the market, but Ohio-based GoSun thinks the time is right to try again – this time with integrated solar charging technology that could give its all-electric tractor a serious advantage over the diesel-powered competition.

Tesla is teasing an October 1 reveal for the new Tesla Roadster, nine years after it first showed the prototype.

The company posted a “Go for launch” teaser image Friday showing the electric hypercar bathed in rocket-launch lighting, with the date “10.01” stamped across it.

Last year, the BYD “Shenzhen” set sail on its first voyage with 9,200 parking spots – or enough space to fill 20 football fields, making BYD’s transport ship easily the world’s largest. Now, as the Chinese car brand sets its sights on Europe and North America, it’s ordering 10 more.

CASE’s new TL100EV mini track loader is finally reaching real-world customers, and they’re putting it to work in some of the industry’s most demanding applications – from low-emission zones and no-drip job sites and noise-sensitive locations. Even indoors!

If you’ve been looking for an off-road electric scooter with plenty of power and room to grow, this one from ECOROAD is definitely worth a closer look.

The ECOROAD ES6 Dual Motor Electric Scooter combines two motors with a total output of 2,000 watts, a top speed of up to 34 mph, and the flexibility to switch between single- and dual-motor drive. And good news, Electrek readers: You get a special discount of 5% on the ECOROAD ES6 Dual with promo code ELECTREK5.

A new fleet of British-designed and built battery electric trains has been announced, promising thousands of new jobs, faster and more reliable rail service, and significant reductions in carbon emissions across northern England.

A drone strike shut down Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline this week, knocking roughly 5 million barrels a day offline. That’s about 5% of global supply, and it pushed Brent crude above $104. US diesel is at record highs.

That’s the fossil fuel crisis making headlines. The quieter one is on your own utility bill, and it’s not getting better either.

From sea to shining sea, Amazon is serious about electrifying its delivery fleet – now, the company is taking that seriousness across the pond, announcing plans to deploy 50 of Mercedes-Benz’ new battery-electric eActros semi trucks before the end of 2026.

Diesel-electric locomotives have been barreling along America’s wide-open spaces for generations, and the century-old combination of consistent, high-efficiency diesel engines spinning up generators to power high-torque electric motors has proven tough to beat. Now, Caterpillar is putting that century-old concept to work in an even bigger dozer – and the promised efficiency gains are incredible.

BYD said its latest flagship SUV has become an instant best-seller. Within 24 hours of launching, the new Sealion 08 secured over 12,000 orders.

Old solar panels contain valuable silver, copper, silicon, aluminum, and glass. A new Texas solar recycling plant aims to recover nearly all of it without sending partially processed materials overseas.

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 the Tesla Semi launch in Europe, mixed bag of EV sales, Chinese EVs in the US, and more.

The average new EV got cheaper in August, even as the average transaction price (ATP) paid for a new vehicle in the US climbed back above $50,000.

Porsche was seen testing its upcoming 718 Boxster at the Nürburgring, the famous and grueling race track in Germany. It’s the first we’ve seen the vehicle uncamouflaged, and comes after Porsche’s new CEO quashed rumors of the model’s cancellation.

Elon Musk is once again promoting the misuse of Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” (FSD), this time by amplifying a video of a 98-year-old man who openly admits he has stopped watching the road.

The clip is charming. It’s also a textbook example of the exact driver behavior Tesla’s lawyers are fighting in a growing pile of crash lawsuits.

We’re closing out this week’s Green Deals with increased savings, new sales, and spotlights on soon-to-end deals. Things start with increased exclusive savings of up to $700 on Yozma’s IN 10 Electric Mini Dirt Bike now down at $999, while the upgraded IN 10 Pro Electric Mini Dirt Bike is at a new $1,699 low. We also have Lectric’s Endless Summer Sale with up to $792 of increased e-bike bundle savings starting from $799. Lastly, from Anker’s soon-to-end SOLIX Hurricane Ready Power Sale, we have a spotlight on S2000 Portable Power Station deals, like getting two of them together for $608 each, as well as some larger backup options, like the expanded 6,144Wh F3000 Portable Power Station with a FREE home integration kit down at $2,090, among others. There’s also the updated continuing Labor Day Green Deals hub roundup that contains deals slated to end soon, as well as the the hangover deals from this week down at the bottom of the page, like the $150 FREE credit with Segway’s discounted Myon Smart e-bike, the latest EcoFlow Home Preparedness Month Sale with bonus extra savings, 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.

Hyundai is set to launch the IONIQ 6 N in the US by the end of the year, its second electric N vehicle following the IONIQ 5.

A court has blocked the Department of Energy’s attempts to force a broken coal plant open in Michigan, stating that there is no “emergency” that should force the plant to stay open and wasting millions of ratepayer dollars for 468 days after its planned retirement.

A pre-production Tesla Cybercab was spotted parked on a street in Berkeley, California, and it gives us the clearest look yet at how Tesla puts a steering wheel into a car it designed to have none.

The photos, shared with Electrek by reader Adam Machacek, show a Cybertruck steering wheel mounted on an exposed steering column that has been bolted into the two-seat robotaxi.

The Kia EV3 is no longer Canada’s most affordable electric vehicle with the new 2027 Nissan Leaf S starting at under CA$35,000.

Tesla revealed the European specs for its Semi electric truck, and they don’t match the version already in production in the US. The truck will offer up to 550 km (342 miles) of range at 40 tonnes fully loaded.

Tesla Europe posted the numbers today, days before the company plans to formally launch the Semi in Europe at the IAA Transportation show in Hannover.

Kia developed a custom PV5 for mail delivery. Starting this month, Kia will begin deploying 200 electric vans to post offices.

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes a new $900 45mph off-road e-moto from Engwe, delays continue for the ALSO e-bike, Illinois sort of made a path to legality for fast e-bikes, review of the Juiced Nomadix R e-moto, and more.

Geely launched its new TT electric sport sedan in China, starting at 129,900 yuan (about $19,100), with 800V fast charging and LiDAR on every trim.

That price puts a 640 km sedan with next-generation charging hardware at roughly half the price of a Tesla.

Update 9/11: Many of the included sales down below are lasting past Labor Day, with some ending tonight and others lasting through the week and further. We have updated the lists so you can continue shopping until the savings are officially over.

Happy Labor Day all! With Amazon’s Labor Day Sale event having been leading most of the deals we’ve seen for weeks, not to mention all the great Green Deals editions leading up to today’s holiday and the savings aren’t going anywhere just yet. Through the rest of the day and even further into the week (and month), you can jump on these deals across a wide variety of tech, and we’ve collected it all into this one-stop shopping hub for your convenience. One thing to note for the tool section in particular: the deals are not given any definite end times, so prices may ebb and flow there – so don’t dawdle too long on those decisions. Head below to browse and take advantage of all these ongoing Labor Day savings before they’re gone.

Volvo designed the 50-ton class EC500 Electric to deliver the same performance as the diesel-powered EC500 the brand’s customers know and love – but saying that is one thing. Proving it? That’s another thing, entirely.

Global EV sales barely moved the needle in August, but that number hides two dramatically different markets: Europe surged 36% from a year ago, while North America plunged 33%.

With its next-generation electric pickups arriving in 2027, the F-150 Lightning is no longer available. Ford is preparing to introduce the $30,000 Fathom EV pickup and an extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) to replace it.

Tesla’s Cybertruck Powershare feature can now back up your home at the same time as a Powerwall 3, the company announced Thursday. Run together, the truck and the battery add more than three days of backup power, which Tesla says is the equivalent of nine extra Powerwalls.

It’s a feature Tesla first promised for 2025, and it’s showing up nearly two years after Cybertruck deliveries began. But it finally closes one of Powershare’s most annoying gaps.

A 2024 Tesla Model Y ran off Interstate 35 in rural Missouri, struck a guardrail, and killed its driver, a 64-year-old woman from Raymore. Troopers reported a single-vehicle wreck and said the car “went off the road.”

What they didn’t say, and likely didn’t know, is that Tesla’s own report to federal regulators says the car’s driver-assist system was engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data.

A new rare earth recycling plant in Arizona could create another domestic source of materials needed for EV motors, wind turbines, and a long list of other products.

We’ve got a jam-packed Thursday Green Deals for you, starting with Segway’s September Back to School e-bike sale that is offering a FREE $150 accessory credit with the latest Myon Smart Electric Bike down at $1,800, among other e-bike lows. Right behind that is EcoFlow’s Home Preparedness Month Sale with continuing Labor Day power station deals and a bonus savings code – all starting from $299. We also have returning low prices on Anker’s newest eufy E50 NVR 4K Bullet-PTZ Multi-Cam Security Systems with 2TB or 4TB hubs at up to $300 off, a 50% markdown on Worx’s 20V 20-inch Attachment-Capable Cordless Pole Hedge Trimmer, deals on a budget-friendly Greenworks string trimmer, a pro-tier 60V 4.0Ah battery, a DEWALT oscillating tool kit, and more – including the updated continuing Labor Day Green Deals hub roundup. Plus, there’s the hangover deals from the last few days down at the bottom of the page, like the exclusive $595 savings on Yozma electric mini dirt bikes, the latest EcoFlow flash sale offers that end soon, 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.

Toyota is recalling 8,521 electric C-HR vehicles because a software glitch can cause the vehicle to suddenly lose power while driving.

China has already crossed its record car export number from last year, and we’re only 2/3 of the way through the year. It shows how China’s EV choices are leading the country to dominate manufacturing, while the rest of the world’s automaking nations simply stand by and eagerly enable it.

Volkswagen launched the latest version of its IQ.Drive ADAS system across its 2027 vehicles, including the Atlas, Golf, ID. Buzz, and Tiguan. The electric ID. Buzz van returns in 2027, bringing several upgrades.

A US congressman is demanding the Department of Transportation explain what it’s doing about Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving after an NBC News investigation surfaced dozens of videos of drivers apparently asleep at the wheel.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi gave Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy until September 30 to answer five questions about the systems, which Tesla itself says “require active driver supervision and are not autonomous driving systems.”

Volvo is pulling the EX40 from its US lineup, leaving the $60,000 EX60 as the brand’s most affordable EV, at least for now.

Electric car sales continue to rise around the globe, driven to newer heights by a wholly unnecessary oil conflict. Only a few backwards-thinking countries are resisting the rise… and one of those backwards-thinking countries is now seeing the light, but it’s for a unique reason.

There are electric scooters, there are fast electric scooters, and then there are machines like the Nanrobot LS7+ that make you wonder whether we’ve stretched the definition of “scooter” about as far as it can possibly go.

The Boring Company has closed a $3 billion Series D funding round led by the United Arab Emirates, valuing Elon Musk’s tunneling venture at $23 billion.

That’s roughly four times its 2022 valuation of about $5.7 billion. And most of the case for it sits in tunnels the company hasn’t dug yet.

The US achieved a pretty big solar milestone in Q2 2026: it now has enough installed capacity to generate clean electricity equivalent to that used by more than 50 million homes. That’s more than one-third of all US households.

Headlining our midweek Green Deals is up to $595 exclusive savings on Yozma’s IN 10 and IN 10 Pro Electric Mini Dirt Bikes starting from $1,044. That deal is followed by EcoFlow’s latest 48-hour flash sale with up to 48% savings on four units, like getting 2x 3,072Wh DELTA 3 Ultra Portable Power Stations for $1,299 each, among others from $599. We also have EGO’s 56V 21-inch Cordless Electric Auger-Propelled Snow Blower with 2x 7.5Ah batteries at a $1,099 2026 low, the Greenworks 40V 8-inch Cordless Electric Edger down at $190, a new low on East Oak’s heated lunchbox, the BougeRV 3,200mAh area light and power bank, and more waiting for you below – including the updated continuing Labor Day Green Deals hub roundup. Plus, there’s some hangover deals from the last two days down at the bottom of the page, like Bluetti’s 6th Anniversary power station sale lineup, 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.

Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) says she’s hearing rumors that President Trump is preparing to let Chinese cars be sold in the US as part of a broader deal with China.

She raised the claim Wednesday, tying it to Trump’s upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, which she said is coming “in just a few weeks.” There are many reasons to doubt these rumors.

Nissan is preparing to bring back the Pixo, this time as a smaller, more affordable EV, with prices starting under $25,000.

EVgo is adding more than 400 fast-charging stalls at grocery-anchored shopping centers across the US, giving EV drivers more places to plug in while they shop or grab a coffee.

Kia has expanded its PV5 electric van lineup to 10 body styles, including a new 7-seater and more.

BYD launched the new Denza Z9 GT e3 Premium, a lower-priced version of its top-selling electric luxury GT, starting at about $50,000.

A 2021 Tesla Model Y left an Alabama highway, hit two trees, and caught fire, killing its driver, 29-year-old Kayleigh Page. Her 7-month-old daughter was pulled from the burning car by a stranger who saw it happen.

Troopers reported it as a single-vehicle wreck. What they didn’t say, and likely didn’t know, is that Tesla’s own data shows the car’s driver-assist system was engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data.

Swedish electric motorcycle maker RGNT has expanded its lineup with a new scrambler version of its retro-inspired electric motorcycle, adding a bit more off-road attitude without messing too much with the formula underneath.

Kia gave three of its new electric vehicles, the EV3, EV4, and EV5, the GT treatment.

One of the most common arguments against a new wind or solar farm is that it will drag down nearby home values. A new Indiana study found no evidence that it does.

BYD is testing a new boxy SUV positioned as a smaller, lower-priced sibling to the Ti 7 (Tai 7). Here’s our first look at it.

Wisconsin is awarding $25 million in federal funding for 42 new DC fast-charging stations, expanding its EV charging network beyond the state’s interstates and onto more US and state highways.

We’ve got a nice mix of continuing Labor Day deals mixed with some new sales events for today’s Green Deals – plus, we’ve updated our one-stop-shop Labor Day Green Deals hub that contains all the ongoing holiday savings. Headlining today is the recently launched Bluetti 6th Anniversary Power Week Sale with up to 33% power station discounts, member-only promotions, and our exclusive bonus savings code, with options like the 3,014Wh Elite 300 Portable Power Station with an Alternator & Solar Dual Charger 2 down at $1,388, among others. There’s also roborock’s RockMow X115H 4WD Robot Lawn Mower at a new $1,500 low, a spotlight on Aventon’s soon-to-end Aventure M Mid-Drive All-Terrain Smart e-bike deal to $2,699, the 2-in-1 Greenworks 40V Pole Saw and Hedge Trimmer Attachment kit at a $160 2026 low, and more. Plus, there’s some hangover deals from yesterday down at the bottom of the page, like the ongoing Hiboy Labor Day EV Sale offers, and others.

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.

China has posted another month of increased sales for pure battery electric vehicles, while every powertrain that has an engine is down compared to last year. But despite the increase in BEV sales, Tesla sales are down for a third-straight month.

The standard Volkswagen ID. Buzz is available with a long-wheelbase (LWB) version, and the Cargo version will be too soon.

A Tesla Cybercab rider found something in the robotaxi: a manual driving mode. When he got in, the touchscreen was showing a virtual joystick to drive the car by hand.

Tesla built the Cybercab with no steering wheel and no pedals. But it apparently still has a way to drive it manually, and you do it by dragging a finger across a screen.

BYD is launching a new Denza Z9 GT model on September 9. The new tri-motor variant is expected to start at around $50,000, filling the gap between the current range-topping Performance and Flagship RWD models.

A new study shows that the gap between real-world pollution from plug-in hybrids and official government estimates is getting wider – and worse, plug-in hybrids themselves are getting dirtier.

And the car lobby is trying to hide it, and make it harder to regulate the pollution coming out of these vehicles.

Polestar has confirmed a new concept car, the Formula 2030, and it’s the clearest look yet at where the Swedish EV brand’s design is headed.

The concept previews styling that will show up on the next Polestar 2, due in 2027, and the Polestar 7 compact SUV coming in 2028. It’s also the design centerpiece of a broader strategy the company is pitching to investors around one goal: getting to profit.

ENGWE has just launched its latest all-terrain electric bike, the E26 3.0, and the company is going big on power this time around. The new model combines dual hub motors, full suspension, and chunky fat tires into a bike that looks designed to handle just about anything you can throw at it.

XPeng has switched on what it calls the world’s first automated production line for advanced humanoid robots, and its IRON robot walked off that line under its own power. The Chinese automaker says the line runs with more than 80% of its core processes automated.

It’s the clearest signal yet that IRON is headed for real manufacturing and not just stage demos. XPeng is targeting mass production by the end of 2026.

China’s clean energy machine is now moving so fast that it’s meeting soaring electricity demand and pushing coal power backward at the same time.

I’ve been working in the electric bike industry for nearly two decades, and publicly reviewing e-bikes for around half of that. I used to say I’ve touched hundreds of e-bikes, but now that I’ve lost count, I wouldn’t be surprised to find I need to add a digit to that. With so many saddles that I have to sit on, I get to ride a lot of e-bikes for a few weeks, but I rarely get to spend months on any one bike. So when I finished my one-month review of the Xtracycle Hopper electric cargo bike and had a unique opportunity for a longer-term project, I jumped on it.

My best friend and his wife have a couple of kids and are a bike-friendly family, so I made him an offer: take this bike and ride it as much as you guys can. Now, having just hit 1,000 km (620 miles) on the thing, he’s back to share his experiences with me. And by extension, with you all.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is working with leading transportation nonprofit CALSTART to roll out a $45 million incentive program to help electrify the port’s operators’ heavy truck fleets.

A Tesla Model 3 ran a stop sign in Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, and hit a Honda Civic turning left through the intersection. The Civic’s driver, 82-year-old Stephen Field, was killed.

Police reported it as a car that failed to stop. What no one reported is that Tesla’s own data says the car’s driver-assist system was engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data.

It’s the final day of Amazon’s Labor Day Sale event, as well as Best Buy’s Labor Day Sale, not to mention a bunch of other direct sales we’ve been featuring the last two weeks – with all the deals we’ve spotted rounded up together in our one-stop-shop Labor Day Green Deals hub here. For our Monday edition, we’ve got a fresh EcoFlow Labor Day flash sale with up to 33% savings on four units starting from $599, as well as Hiboy’s full Labor Day EV Sale lineup that starts from $300. There’s also the Autel MaxiCharger AC Pro 80A Level 2 EV Charger back at its $909 low, as well as the advanced carbon-fiber EGO 10-inch Pole Saw with an LED Indicator down at $339. Like I said, for all the other deals we’ve spotted leading up to today, you can find those within the convenient Holiday Green Deals hub here.

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.

Xiaomi launched its SkyNomad SUV family in China today, a lineup of four extended-range models that starts at RMB 209,900, or about $31,275.

It’s Xiaomi’s first move into extended-range vehicles, and the entry price lands below China’s established EREV flagships from Li Auto and Huawei-backed AITO.

Volkswagen’s new ID. Polo EV is apparently sold out after receiving over 30,000 orders. Buyers are now being told it will be at least a 10-month wait.

Tesla is now asking businesses whether they’d like to buy and operate their own fleets of Cybercab robotaxis on its network. It’s the same pitch Elon Musk has been making since 2019: buy the cars, put them to work, and earn money while you sleep.

There’s one problem with it. And it never happened, and you shouldn’t fall for it now. If running a fleet of Cybercabs were actually profitable, Tesla wouldn’t sell you a single one.

Engwe came to us a month ago with the Eagle and asked if we’d like to review it. The eMoto looks and is specced a lot like some of the other 14/12″ mullet mini eMotos that have flooded the market over the past year, which wasn’t immediately enticing. However, the Eagle smashes through that $1000 price point to $899 after coupon code ELECTREKCO (plus some limited-time gifts). We thought it would be useful to see how they did it and what we found might surprise you.

The A2 e-tron is Audi’s most efficient vehicle ever, delivering over 400 miles of range. It’s also the brand’s affordable model, positioned as its new entry-level EV.

Electric motorcycles have long had a pricing problem. While battery-powered scooters and e-bikes have increasingly pushed into affordable territory, highway-capable electric motorcycles still tend to carry fairly hefty price tags.

Evoke Motorcycles is hoping to change that with its newly unveiled 2027 Evoke Nrgy, a lightweight electric motorcycle targeting a starting price of just $4,995.

Volvo is celebrating its 100th anniversary with launch of a new, special edition Volvo FH16 Electric semi truck featuring special paint, interior upgrades, and a promise from the company to keep on keepin’ on for at least 100 more.

Somewhere, a guy in Pit Vipers is recording a Facebook video from the front seat of his pickup claiming that Chinese EVs aren’t just inferior to American V8 iron – they’re unsafe, too. Unfortunately for him, the latest EVs from GAC, Geely, and Leapmotor just aced the brutally demanding Euro NCAP safety tests.

While North American fleets continue to drag their fleet on electric, the rest of the world is charging ahead. As if to prove that fact, Chinese equipment brand SANY delivered 200 heavy-duty electric haul trucks and more than 600 electric wheel loaders. In a single month. (!)

For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about whether our Electrek readers believed the new Cybercab would be a transformative new technology, or – not. After nearly 2,700 responses, here’s what you told us.

Just when it looked like we were about to find out what Storm Sondors has been cooking up for his return to the e-bike world, the story has taken another strange turn.

Earlier this week, a home solar shopper took to Reddit looking for a home solar panel + home backup battery system that could intelligently manage solar and grid power, auto switch in a power outage, and accept ICE generator input in a prolonged grid power failure. I reached out to some home energy experts to get them an answer.

Drivers opening an EV charging app for the first time today will be presented with thousands of so-called “public” chargers at local car dealers. Once they arrive, however, the store’s customers, store hours, security gates, and Wild West pricing can turn what should be a routine charging stop into a frustrating ordeal. For first-time EV drivers, that doesn’t just reflect poorly on the dealer – it reflects poorly on the EV, itself. And we need to fix it.

UPDATE 05SEP2026: another Hyundai store, another $418 bill.

BLUETTI says its new Pioneer 5000 E-Generator is built for the “Next Generation of Real Work,” as the brand expands into professional job site power delivery with a battery-backed and noise-free alternative to conventional ICE-powered generators.

There’s an impossible amount of good-looking girls in Sudbury, and an equally impressive wealth of high-grade nickel and copper ore living “just” 8,500 feet below the town’s surface, too – and Glencore Canada is sending a bunch of big EVs down to get it.

The University at Buffalo is celebrating the deployment of eight new 40-foot electric transit buses, which are now quietly transporting students, staff, and campus visitors per day. The buses are the first in UB’s Stampede fleet to ditch diesel, kicking off a four-year effort to electrify the university’s campus transportation system.

On today’s pressing episode of Quick Charge, we challenge the notion that all press is good press by filling the void of information surrounding this week’s Tesla Cybercab launch with a whole lot of bad news for the Full Self Driving brand.

BYD is preparing to launch a new electric hatch, positioned between the Dolphin and Seagull (Dolphin Surf) in size and price.

The Jeep Grand Wagoneer and Ram 1500 extended-range electric vehicles (EREVs) may not arrive as soon as expected after yet another delay.

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’s latest Cyberflop, lots of cheap Ford electric pickups, VW in trouble, and more.

For the first time, an autonomous EV might show up if you order an Uber in London.

Alongside Tesla’s low-key Cybercab event this week, the company showed off its new rare earth-free Cybercab motor, which reportedly increases power density and efficiency significantly.

It’s some kind of an achievement, but to understand how much of an achievement it is, we must first understand what all of this actually means. Strap in.

Whereas yesterday’s Green Deals mostly focused on power stations, today’s edition is all about EV Labor Day deals, starting with the $699 off launch deal for ENGWE’s E26 3.0 Dual-Motor Full Suspension All-Terrain e-bike at $1,799. Right behind it we have both a spotlight on Navee’s premium UT5 Ultra X Electric SuperScooter at a new $1,785 low ahead of the brand’s Labor Day Sale lineup with up to $800 discounts + bonus extra savings. There’s also the Tenways Wayfarer Cruiser e-bike with a FREE $277 bundle at a new $1,599 low, as well as an extra battery bundle on Velotric’s Nomad 2 Off-Road e-bike at $1,999 – plus, more EV sales down below. And don’t forget that you can find the hangover deals from this week at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s Segway Labor Day Sale lineup of up to 50% off deals, the exclusive $1,000 Jackery 5,040Wh Explorer 5000 Plus savings, 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.

BYD launched an aggressive sales campaign in the UK, its “biggest-ever,” offering over $3,000 off select plug-in and electric vehicles.

Rivian is rolling out RivianOS 2, the biggest overhaul of its in-car software since the R1 first shipped. For the first time, it puts every vehicle the company sells on a single software stack.

The update, version 2026.31, started reaching eligible R1 and R2 vehicles today. It brings a rebuilt interface, Unreal Engine 5 graphics, real-time police and speed-camera alerts, and a deeper AI layer Rivian calls Unified Intelligence.

There’s a fairly wide spectrum of moped-style electric bikes these days. Some are essentially conventional e-bikes wearing motorcycle-inspired designs, while others lean so heavily into the mini-moto experience that the pedals start to feel like little more than a legal technicality.

The Macfox X1S definitely falls closer to that second group.

Defender is preparing to launch its first fully electric SUV, a compact off-roader that’s expected to debut by the end of the year.

Tesla is rolling out a new version of its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software that can take control of your car to avoid a crash, even when you’re driving manually.

The automaker announced the feature, part of FSD Supervised v14.3.9, in a post from its AI team early Friday.

The entire US auto industry is back at it again, lobbying Congress to stifle competition and ensure that Americans remain stuck with overpriced, second-rate, highly-polluting vehicles.

Tesla’s Cybercab is already under federal investigation. NHTSA opened an audit into how Tesla certified the vehicle the same day the company started putting passengers in it in Austin.

The probe targets the exact thing that makes the Cybercab unusual: it has no steering wheel, no pedals, and no mirrors, and Tesla certified it as road-legal anyway.

Tesla said today that its Robotaxis have driven a total of 1 million miles without a human driver supervising them. The number is more than double what we heard at the last check-in just six weeks ago, as Tesla finally shifts away from human “safety drivers.”

Tesla has started distributing a “Robotaxi interest form,” collecting interest from fleet buyers who would want to build a Robotaxi network or provide related infrastructure services.

It’s the first step in allowing non-Tesla entities to make money off of Tesla’s FSD driver-assist software… but the owners who were promised they could make passive income with their cars are still out of luck.

IONNA is giving Labor Day road-trippers a pretty awesome charging deal: From Friday, September 4, through Monday, September 7, charging across its entire network will cost just $0.20 per kWh, plus tax.

VW could stop building cars at four German plants as it prepares to cut another 50,000 jobs worldwide – bringing its total planned workforce reduction to around 100,000.

The PV7 was spotted testing days after Kia previewed the larger electric van for the first time, and it makes the PV5 seem tiny.

The Hyundai IONIQ 5 and Toyota bZ are on sale for Labor Day to clear inventory for the incoming 2027 models.

Equinor’s largest US battery energy storage project to date is now operating in South Texas, adding 100 megawatts (MW) of flexible capacity to the state’s fast-growing power grid.

The Mercedes EQA, Hyundai IONIQ 5, and BMW i4 hold onto their battery health better than any other electric car, according to the largest independent study of used-EV batteries ever run.

That’s the ranking that falls out of 500,000-plus battery tests published by Austrian diagnostics firm AVILOO, which measured 20 popular EVs at up to 150,000 km (93,000 miles) of use.

August sales numbers from the UK show a rosy picture for electric car sales, with BEVs being the most common powertrain and making up 30% of the market, up from 23% a year ago.

The number is well ahead of the pace required to meet the UK’s current somewhat-ambitious target of 80% EV sales by 2030… so why is the UK government considering softening that target?

Our Thursday Green Deals this week are largely stuffed with power station deals/sales, starting with the exclusive $1,000 savings our readers can get on the 5,040Wh Jackery Explorer 5000 Plus Portable Power Station at a $2,499 2026 low. Right behind that spotlight is Jackery’s full Labor Day Sale lineup with up to 50% savings, including some first-time offers like the expanded 4,096Wh HomePower 2000 Plus V2 bundle at $1,579. We also have Segway’s Labor Day EV Sale with up to 50% savings starting from $160, a roundup of Anker eufy security camera Labor Day deals with up to 43% savings starting from $60, and a 24-hour deal on EcoFlow’s 499Wh RIVER 2 Max Lite (500) Power Station, and more below. As always, you can find the hangover deals from the last three days at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s exclusive Bluetti Elite 100 Mini 1,004Wh power station launch deals, the Anker SOLIX Labor Day Sale lineup with exclusive bonus savings, 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.

Toyota is refuting a report claiming that it’s pushing back the launch of its first three-row electric SUV, the Highlander EV, again.

Xiaomi Auto confirmed it will start selling electric vehicles in Europe, including Germany, in 2027, and it’s already lining up the dealers to sell them.

At IFA Berlin today, the Chinese automaker signed memoranda of understanding with eight of Germany’s largest dealer groups. They’re its first retail partners on the continent.

California scored a win for clean air today, as a DC court blocked a republican attempt to end the state’s clean air standards. It’s not the first time California has prevailed in a similar case against similar illegal attacks meant to impose more pollution.

A Tesla Model X struck and killed a motorcyclist at an intersection in Moraine last year and the crash went mostly unnoticed.

But Tesla’s own report to federal regulators says the vehicle was a Model X with its driver-assist system, Autopilot or Full Self-Driving (Tesla hides which one) engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data — and it’s the clearest example yet of how completely these crashes can vanish from the public record.

PG&E just expanded its Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) program, adding EVs from Tesla, Kia, Volvo, Polestar, and Nissan and opening up as much as $17,000 in incentives to turn a car into home backup power.

The California utility brought in Bidirectional Energy and PowerFlex as approved partners, and drivers now have until June 30, 2027 to enroll.

Kia’s electric van really can do it all. The PV5 was converted into a mobile grocery store to deliver food and other necessities to those in need for free.

Rivian spin-off ALSO is pushing back the delivery timeline for its highly anticipated TM-B electric bike yet again, with reservation holders for the flagship Launch Edition now being told to expect their bikes to arrive by early November at the latest.

Chinese oil use dropped drastically in Q2 of this year, leading to an overall drop in emissions for the country. That alone is a big deal – but the potential effects of the world’s second-largest oil consumer rapidly passing peak oil could have massive effects on the world’s oil markets.

Electric cars outsold petrol cars in Australia for the first time in August. Battery-electric vehicles hit 27,078 sales, or 24.9% of the new-car market, ahead of both petrol (25,824) and diesel (23,608).

The Tesla Model Y topped every model on sale. But look past it, and Australia’s EV record is almost entirely a Chinese one.

E-bike theft is one of those problems where a good lock is only half the battle. Since no physical lock can ever give you a 100% guarantee of safety, if a thief actually gets away with your bike, knowing where it went can suddenly become a lot more important.

Now connected e-bike specialist Comodule has unveiled its latest solution, known as Astra, and one of its most interesting tricks is the ability to keep tracking an e-bike for up to 12 months – even when the bike is sitting in storage.

Ford has set a goal to sell 100,000 of its upcoming Fathom electric truck in the model’s first year of sales, which would put it among the best-selling EVs in America, and the best-selling non-Tesla EV.

Minnesota is getting ready to put a lot more EV fast chargers on the map – and this time, they’ll be located beyond the state’s three major interstates.

Hyundai opened orders for the IONIQ 3, its new entry-level electric hatch, starting at about $30,000.