Norway is doubling down on electric maritime transport in a big way, placing an order for 20 of Candela’s P-12 electric hydrofoil ferries in what’s being described as the largest deployment of its kind to date.
On today’s Tesla-tastic episode of Quick Charge, a TSLA bear thinks the stock is headed for a 60% slide before the year is out, Tesla launches a Supercharger configurator, and we find out what’s really going on at Elon’s proposed chip fab.
The UK just approved what will become its largest solar farm yet – and it’s a clear signal of where its energy strategy is headed.
Tesla has quietly switched on a public configurator for its Supercharger for Business program, and the numbers tell us exactly what it now costs a third party to buy into the network: $500,000 in hardware and roughly $940,000 all-in for a standard V4 8-stall site.
The tool also spits out ROI estimates that swing wildly by location — from a 4-year payback in San Francisco to 7 years in Manhattan — and effectively prices Tesla’s own cut at a flat $0.10/kWh.
Our mid-week Green Deals edition is packed and focused on EcoFlow, but that’s not to say the other deals we’ve collected for you today are any less exciting. First, we have EcoFlow’s latest Members’ Festival x Earth Day Mega Sale with up to 62% power station discounts, extra savings on solar generators, FREE gifts, and 3x EcoCredit rewards – all starting from $169. The brand has also just launched its 288Wh TRAIL Plus 300 DC Portable Compact Power Station (and two solar bundles) starting from $199, as well as offering a 24-hour flash sale on three units, like the 2,048Wh DELTA 2 Max Portable Power Station at $799, which is the best new price we have tracked aside from a Black Friday exclusive deal. We also have three EGO Multi-Head Combo bundles that give you a string trimmer + one of three secondary attachments at new lows, a spotlight on Lectric’s April Showers XP Trike2 bundles with up to $588 in FREE gear, an Eve Aqua Apple HomeKit Smart Water Controller deal worth considering for your spigots, and much more waiting for you below. And don’t forget about the other hangover deals at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s flash sale on the Segway G30P Electric Scooter to a new $500 low, Jackery’s 256Wh Explorer 240D power station at a new $129 low, and more.
Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.
Elon Musk claimed this week that Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” is so much safer than human drivers that it could save 90% of the roughly one million lives lost in car crashes globally each year — a 10X improvement in safety.
The problem is that Tesla has never released the data that would support anything close to that claim, and Musk is already using it to pre-frame the lawsuits Tesla is facing over FSD crashes as an unavoidable cost of progress.
A newly introduced California bill could quietly reshape how passengers are carried on bicycles and e-bikes – and in the process, potentially outlaw one of the most popular features on many modern electric bikes.
