China’s wind and solar boom is creating waste, but there’s a plan
China’s clean energy boom is saddled with a major challenge: what to do with all its old wind and solar equipment.
Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla on FSD, exposes supervision problem
Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s CTO and the former head of Uber’s self-driving car division, totaled his Tesla Model X while using “Full Self-Driving” on a residential street. His kids were in the back seat.
In a new essay published in The Atlantic, Krikorian breaks down the accident and offers what might be the most informed critique yet of the fundamental problem with Tesla’s approach to “supervised” autonomy — from someone who literally built self-driving systems for a living.
Tesla (TSLA) Terafab plans point to inevitable capital raise — its first since 2020
Tesla’s “Terafab” semiconductor ambitions to launch this week carry an estimated price tag of $25-40 billion. The math is getting hard to reconcile with a company that generated just $6.2 billion in free cash flow last year while its earnings crashed.
Tesla hasn’t raised capital through a stock offering since December 2020, when it completed the last of three at-the-market offerings that brought in roughly $12 billion in a single year. The Terafab changes the equation entirely.
A solid-state EV battery that can achieve 800 miles of driving range — It’s becoming a reality
Solid-state batteries are called the “holy grail” of EV battery tech for a reason, right? The new battery tech is quickly moving from the lab to the real world, with some claiming to unlock over 800 miles of driving range.
Segway e-scooters + robot mowers up to $1,133 off in Spring Sales, Velotric St. Paddy’s e-bike flash sale from $1,099, EcoFlow, more
Among our three headliners in today’s Green Deals, we have a particular focus on Segway. The brand currently has its Spring EV Sale taking hundreds off e-scooters, including the Max G2 Electric Scooter down at $650, as well as its alternate Navimow Spring Sale with up to $1,133 savings on X3 and i1 series robot lawn mowers, with the former series all seeing new low prices. From there, we also have Velotric’s St. Patrick’s Day flash sale (ending tonight) that has increased the number of e-bikes receiving up to $512 savings, like the Nomad 2 Off-Road e-bike with a FREE rack top bag at $1,899, among others. We also have EcoFlow’s latest 48-hour flash sale with three different tiers of power stations included, as well as tool deals on Worx’s 20V JawSaw, DEWALT’s compact portable table saw, and more waiting for you below – especially the increased $1,939+ exclusive savings on the EcoFlow DELTA Pro Ultra X and TRAIL 200 DC power station bundle. And don’t forget the hangover deals at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s Jackery 72-hour flash sale that ends tomorrow night, or the new lows hitting Husqvarna’s latest iQ advanced robot lawn mowers, 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.
Energy Dept keeps demanding a coal plant stay open that’s not even running
The Department of Energy issued a second “emergency” order to keep the last coal plant in Washington open for another 90 days, doing its best to raise electricity and health costs for central Washington.
But nobody wants it open – including the owner of the plant, who hasn’t operated it at all in the last 3 months since its planned closure, citing “flush” electricity supply from the state’s ample hydropower resources.
Elon Musk claims Tesla Roadster ‘unveil’ is coming next month — sure
Elon Musk is once again promising the long-delayed next-generation Tesla Roadster is just around the corner. This time, he says an “unveil” is coming next month — April 2026.
The Tesla CEO made the claim on X today while quote-tweeting a post about the anniversary of the original Roadster’s production start in 2008. He wrote: “New Roadster unveil hopefully next month. It will be a banger next-level.”
US confirms Tesla (TSLA) is buyer in LG’s $4.3B LFP battery deal for Megapack 3
The US government has officially confirmed that Tesla is the customer behind LG Energy Solution’s massive $4.3 billion lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery supply contract — ending months of speculation since LG first disclosed the deal last July.
The three-year agreement will see LG produce LFP prismatic cells at its Lansing, Michigan factory starting in 2027, feeding directly into Tesla’s next-generation Megapack 3 energy storage systems assembled at the Houston Megafactory.