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Elon Musk’s companies are moving faster than expected on a Tesla-SpaceX combination. A deal could be announced as soon as December, which would make it the largest merger ever, according to Bloomberg.

Tesla holds its annual shareholder meeting on December 3, and the same directors who would sign off on the deal are up for re-election.

Kia isn’t wasting any time updating its Sportage-sized EV5 electric SUV. Leaked images just gave us our first look at what’s changing.

The November seasonal savings aren’t slowing down anytime soon, and leading our Green Deals group today is the Ride1Up Black Friday e-bike savings, with offers like the VORSA Modular Multi-Use e-bikes at their lows starting from $1,345, while others start from $845. Likewise, there’s also Heybike’s e-bike event savings, including five exclusive low prices for our readers – all starting from $799. There’s also four 21-inch to 28-inch EGO Power+ Snow Blowers at their best 2026 rates, the dual Bluetti FridgePower 2,016Wh Station bundle exclusively at $1,614, a one-day-only EcoFlow DELTA 3 Max Power Station deal from Best Buy, and more. Don’t forget about the deals from the last few days at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s first-time Segway MUXI cargo e-bike deal, the Navimow robot mower deals, 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.

BYD launched the Denza N8 EV in China, a five-seat luxury SUV that promises more than 1,000 km (621 miles) of CLTC range, a tech-filled cabin, and plenty of premium extras.

Volkswagen is turning one of its best-selling nameplates into an electric SUV. The new ID. Tiguan is now rolling off the assembly line and will replace the ID.4 in 2027.

A Tesla driver caught asleep behind the wheel on Ottawa’s Highway 417 during Tuesday’s rush hour now faces a careless driving charge from the Ontario Provincial Police. The photo OPP shared shows a new-generation Model Y in traffic.

The charge carries a $490 fine and six demerit points on conviction. It’s at least the fifth time this year Canadian police have gone public with a sleeping Tesla driver, and it’s not a coincidence that it’s happening as “Full Self-Driving” gets better.

Canada’s government wants to make it easier for citizens to drive electric, and they’re putting more than $4 billion in funding for electricity infrastructure and grid modernization that includes more than 55,000 new EV chargers.

Honda has been steadily expanding its electric motorcycle lineup, but one of its most interesting new models isn’t a flashy high-performance machine. It’s a modest little electric scooter called the Honda UC3, and with prices now dipping close to $2,000 in local markets, it’s the kind of affordable electric two-wheeler that many Americans would probably love to get their hands on.

Global EV sales climbed 8% in October, with Europe’s battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales jumping 49% and North America posting its first year-over-year increase in 2026. But that North American rebound comes with a big catch.

BYD’s new EV may be about the size of a Toyota Camry, but it’s playing in a whole different league when it comes to technology.

Kia became the first non-European brand to score a hat trick at the 2026 Golden Steering Wheel Awards, Germany’s most prestigious auto awards.

Our midweek Green Deals edition is being led by Segway. The brand just expanded its EV Early Black Friday deal lineup for members, which includes the first discount on the 2026 MUXI Cargo Smart e-bike, while its Navimow Early Black Friday lineup has offers like the i215 LiDAR Robot Lawn Mower down at $1,399, with other deals starting from $899. We also spotted a one-day-only chance to pick up Anker’s eufy SoloCam S340 Solar Security 4-Cam Kit with HomeBase 3 down at $580 (as well as an option to upgrade to 1TB of storage), the Aventon Aventure M Mid-Drive All-Terrain Smart e-bike with a foldable lock at $2,699, some Worx deals on a 2-in-1 cordless chain/polesaw and the Cube portable vaccum, and more. There’s also the deals from the last two days at the bottom of the page below our best EV deals list, including yesterday’s exclusive Anker SOLIX Early Black Friday power station sale lineup, the Velotric Fold 1 Plus e-bike at a new $1,199 low, 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.

BYD is apologizing after a supplier error left some owners of its new full-size flagship SUV with the wrong wheels.

Elon Musk now says Tesla will keep building the Cybertruck “through the end of summer 2027” to “work through more of the Cybertruck order backlog.” That buys the electric pickup roughly two to three more months, five days after Tesla first announced it was killing it.

The reprieve lands as a growing number of Tesla’s own fans push back on the decision, and on what it says about Tesla’s future as a company that sells cars to people.

Tesla has confirmed a new batch of Tesla Semi deliveries, with its official Semi account saying today that “Chicago’s first 50 Semis” are on their way to the city.

It’s a rare data point. Tesla doesn’t disclose Semi deliveries, and it claims its new Nevada factory can build 50,000 of them a year.

Hyundai’s US electric vehicle lineup will look a bit different in 2027, including the new IONIQ 6 N, a new range-topping IONIQ 9 trim, and a handful of minor updates to the IONIQ 5.

Toyota and Subaru’s new electric SUVs are catching on with buyers, offering various options and prices ranging from about $35,000 to $45,000, or the “sweet spot” of the US market.

Tesla’s “flying” Roadster just took a hit from Porsche. Speaking at a conference in Berlin today, CEO Michael Leiters said Porsche wants “to completely steer clear from any kind of effects and shows,” according to Bloomberg.

Both automakers revealed their next halo cars on the same day, October 15. Tesla made a Roadster flip in mid-air. Porsche showed the Mission S, and Leiters says the two cars aren’t even chasing the same customers.

Genesis opened orders for the ultra-luxury electric SUV in South Korea, with prices starting at over $100,000. If you want coach doors, however, it will cost you a bit more.

QuantumScape (QS) is finally going all-solid-state. Its new Osprey platform swaps the liquid in its cathode for a sulfide solid electrolyte, and the company says the cells have hit 1,000 full cycles to 80% capacity at just one atmosphere of pressure.

That’s a big deal for the sulfide camp, which includes Toyota, Samsung SDI, BYD, and Factorial. Their cells typically need heavy clamping to work. But the white paper behind the announcement shows these are small, early lab cells, and some headline numbers come with important conditions.

Every few years, I apparently feel compelled to remind Honda that it is sitting on what could be one of the easiest home runs in the electric motorcycle industry: just make an electric Super Cub already.

Unplugged Performance, the biggest name in Tesla aftermarket tuning, wants to keep the Cybertruck alive. The company publicly offered on Tuesday to take the Cybertruck line off Tesla’s hands, funded by a consortium of investors.

It comes just four days after Elon Musk said Tesla would wind down Cybertruck production at Giga Texas around mid-2027, with the truck selling at roughly 12% of the 250,000 units a year Tesla planned for.

Kia opened orders for two new PV5 electric van variants, the PV5 Chassis and PV5 Cargo L2/H2, in the UK.

Lucid (LCID) CEO Silvio Napoli admitted on the company’s Q3 earnings call that, as recently as this summer, the automaker “did not even know where cars were.” Buyers placed orders, Lucid took up to two weeks to locate and deliver a car, and some of those buyers walked away.

That’s a rough admission from a company sitting on thousands of unsold vehicles. And it’s a problem Tesla ran into, and fixed, back in 2018 at more than ten times Lucid’s current volume.