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Jackery Early Spring sale drops 5,040Wh+ Explorer 5000 Plus power station to new $2,659 low, Lectric one-day e-bike flash sale, more

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We’ve got a great lineup to close out this week’s Green Deals, with plenty of new low prices, first-time discounts, one-day-only and 72-hour flash sales, and more. Our headliner for today is Jackery’s Early Spring Sale with up to 60% discounts + bonus savings, which has dropped the 5,040Wh+ Explorer 5000 Plus Portable Power Station to a new $2,659 low. From there, we have Lectric’s one-day-only Friday the 13th Blackout flash sale that has increased e-bike savings on select black/grey models alongside giving you a FREE mystery gift – all starting from $899, as well as EcoFlow’s latest 72-hour flash sale that is offering the DELTA 3 Portable Power Station with a 110W solar panel at a new $559 low (and three other offers). There’s also Worx’s newest Vision Cloud robot mower first-time discount, Husqvarna’s Combi Switch Pole Saw package at a new low, Worx’s Aerocart, and more waiting for you below. And don’t forget the hangover deals at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s exclusive $1,439+ savings on the 12,288Wh EcoFlow DELTA Pro Ultra X + 192Wh TRAIL 200 DC power station bundle, the new exclusive low prices on Anker’s latest E10 Smart Hybrid Whole-Home Backup System, 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.

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Reinette LeJeune

Musk admits xAI ‘not built right’ — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion

2 weeks 2 days ago

Elon Musk admitted today that xAI, his artificial intelligence venture, “was not built right first time around” and “is being rebuilt from the foundations up.” The admission comes just six weeks after he had Tesla pour $2 billion of shareholder money into the company.

The timing is remarkable. Tesla disclosed the $2 billion xAI investment in its Q4 2025 earnings report on January 28. Days later, SpaceX acquired xAI in a deal valuing the combined entity at $1.25 trillion. Now Musk is telling the world the thing he just sold to his own public and private investors was broken.

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Fred Lambert

BYD is open to building cars in Canada and acquiring a rival automaker

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BYD’s Executive Vice President Stella Li confirmed the world’s largest EV maker is studying the Canadian market for a wholly owned manufacturing plant, and signaled it could acquire a struggling legacy automaker to accelerate its global expansion.

The comments, made during an interview in São Paulo, mark BYD’s most aggressive public posture yet toward North American production and consolidation of weaker rivals in the global auto industry.

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Fred Lambert