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Leading our Tuesday Green Deals is the special 4th of July flash sale on Tenways’ Wayfarer Premium Cruiser e-bike with a $277 FREE bundle of gear at a new $1,649 low. We also have Jackery’s Independence Day Sale with up to 60% power station discounts alongside three continuing bonus savings codes – with deals starting from $249, as well as Aiper’s IrriSense 2 Smart Irrigation System and Multi-Zone Sprinkler down at $370, a soon-to-end chance at Greenworks’ 1,800 PSI Compact Electric Pressure Washer for the $100 2026 low, and a bunch of continuing Prime Day and July 4th sales worth jumping on while they’re still around. Plus – don’t forget about the hangover deals we’ve got collected at the bottom of the page for you, like yesterday’s Lectric 4th of July e-bike sale, the latest EcoFlow flash sale offers, 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 revealed the new X5 on Tuesday, including the first all-electric iX5. The iX5 adopts the Neue Klasse style and tech with an impressive range of up to 525 miles on a single charge.

Rivian has released approximate order invite dates to reservation holders for its new mid-sized Rivian R2 SUV.

The Interior Department has made another illegal agreement with a gas company to drop development of cheap and clean offshore wind and instead focus on dirty, expensive gas, giving that company the better part of a billion dollars worth of taxpayer money while starving Americans of much-needed electricity.

Original post 6/17, Updated 6/30: Interior announced another deal on Monday, this one with Duke Energy to cancel a project in Carolina Long Bay.

Tesla says it has started engineering tests of its first production Cybercab on public roads in Austin, marking the first time a customer-spec unit of the purpose-built robotaxi has been validated outside the factory.

But a video shared by the company shows the two-seater driving with a supervisor sitting in the front passenger seat — a reminder that the car still isn’t operating on its own in Tesla’s paid service.

Jeep will not launch the Recon and Wagoneer S in Europe or the UK as planned. Instead, Jeep confirmed three new SUVs are on the way, including a new flagship SUV that will use Chinese tech.

Canadian electric two-wheeler maker Beachman has taken the wraps off its latest model, the Aviator, expanding its lineup with a platform that spans everything from a Class 2 e-bike to a highway-capable electric motorcycle.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has proposed a sweeping new safety rule that could significantly reshape the e-bike industry, particularly when it comes to lithium-ion batteries and electrical systems.

Getting new solar projects connected to the grid can take years. Earthrise Energy says it’s found a faster way.

The world’s top-selling automaker is feeling the impact of rising gas prices. Toyota reported its fourth straight month of lower global sales in May, as EVs continued to drive growth.

Hitachi Energy has broken ground on a major expansion of its South Boston, Virginia, campus that will become the largest power transformer factory in the US – one of the most in-demand pieces of equipment for the country’s aging, overloaded electric grid.

A new proposed class action accuses Tesla of selling “Full Self-Driving” on millions of vehicles that are physically incapable of delivering it — and to make its case, the 51-page complaint repeatedly cites Electrek’s own reporting.

The suit, Waller v. Tesla (No. 4:26-cv-05350-KAW), was filed June 4 in the Northern District of California and covers cars built with Tesla’s Hardware 1, 2, 2.5, and 3 computers — effectively every Tesla sold with the FSD option from 2017 through early 2023.

Amazon’s Prime Day may be over, but that doesn’t mean all the amazing deals are gone, as we’re kicking off this week’s Green Deals with a mix of extended savings alongside newer 4th of July savings. Leading the group is Lectric’s 4th of July Sale with up to $694 e-bike savings that is both continuing Prime Day pricing while increasing the savings on certain models – all starting from $799. Right behind it is the latest EcoFlow extended Prime Day flash sale, which includes the 2,048Wh DELTA 3 Max Plus Portable Power Station getting a FREE 67W 3-in-1 10,000mAh power bank at $1,044. We also have Greenworks 24V, 40V, and 82V battery discounts, a Worx Nitro pole saw continuing Prime Day deal, as well as a ton of extended sales running into and through the upcoming month below.

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 first electric van, the PV5, is set to go on sale in Canada soon. Kia said the P5 is yet another affordable EV the company plans to launch in 2026.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed a bipartisan e-bike safety bill that would have introduced new rules for riders around pedestrians, effectively ending legislation that had passed both chambers of the state legislature unanimously.

BMW will officially unveil the iX5 on June 30, but we are already getting an early look after images leaked online.

The world could save 8.8 million lives through 2050 with a more ambitious path towards electification, according to a new study by the ICCT, the same organization which blew the whistle on VW’s Dieselgate scandal.

And given the scale of death and how avoidable it is, any group that actively works to slow EV adoption is functionally committing mass murder.

Gobao has officially taken the wraps off several new e-bike drive systems, but while the company’s new continuously variable transmission (eCVT) motors are certainly intriguing, it’s the batteries that may end up stealing the show.

Tesla has started rolling out FSD v14 “Lite” to its Hardware 3 (HW3) cars, the company’s AI chief Ashok Elluswamy confirmed today. The build, firmware version 2026.20.5.1, is going out first to early-access drivers.

It’s the first major Full Self-Driving update for the roughly 4 million HW3 vehicles that had been frozen on FSD v12.6 since early 2025 — but it remains a supervised, hands-on Level 2 system.

Trailers loaded with millions of dollars of Tesla car and home batteries have been stolen straight from loading docks at the company’s Nevada operations at least 11 times since December, according to sheriff’s records.

Nine of the suspected cargo thefts happened in January alone, and a local detective investigating the cases calls the situation “an epidemic right now.”

CALSTART’s Zeroing in on Zero-Emission Trucks report is out, and the results are in: after getting off to a slow start in the first half of 2025, zero-emission truck deployment in the US picked up steam in the second half, climbing to 4.14% of all new deployments.

Last week, we asked Electrek readers a simple whether they believed that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, after becoming the world’s first trillionaire, would finally make good on the ambitious promises he spent years making about accelerating sustainable energy, delivering unsupervised full self driving, building useful humanoid robots, and ultimately making humanity a multiplanetary species. After more than 3,300 responses, here’s what you told us.

The Stark Varg has quickly become one of the most capable electric off-road motorcycles on the market (plus a pretty impressive on-road version as well), and now it’s getting another major performance upgrade without owners ever needing to visit a dealership.

Despite the rapidly growing number of heavy-duty EVs on western roads, a number of myths still persist about range, charging infrastructure, and economic viability. To combat those myths, Mercedes-Benz is sharing real-world data from 80 of its deployed electric semi trucks. Here’s what they found.