By contrast, the Drexel and Trinity group’s method mixes silicon powder into a MXene solution to create a hybrid silicon-MXene anode. MXene nanosheets distribute randomly and form a continuous network while wrapping around the silicon particles, thus acting as conductive additive and binder at the same time. It’s the MXene framework that also imposes order on ions as they arrive and prevents the anode from expanding.

Clocking 50,000 miles on my Tesla Model S has me pondering the value of electric vehicles. During my 85-mile, round trip commute from Yorba Linda, California USC’s Marshall School of Business in central Los Angeles, I fight the worst traffic on Earth. I’m always searching for a better and  more economical driving experience. So, in May 2016 my son and I picked up the Model S (70D) at the Tesla’s Fremont factory. I purchased the car online without a test drive or even a passenger experience and it did not disappoint. My Model S continues to be the best product of any kind that I have ever purchased.

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This adjustment could extend the life of Li-ion batteries as much as five times, the group recently reported in Nature Communications. It’s possible because of the two-dimensional MXene material’s ability to prevent the silicon anode from expanding to its breaking point during charging — a problem that’s prevented its use for some time.

You could also just plug with your own charger and a standard electrical outlet. If you skip the USB charging ports, you should be fine.

I was not an electric newbie, however. I traded in my 2014 Chevy Volt, a comfortable, decent looking plugin hybrid that could just barely get me to work on battery. As its internal combustion engine (ICE) almost never kicked on, the Volt required little service. I drove 40k miles in two years and changed the oil once. This experience alerted me to the low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and lifespan advantages of electric vehicles.

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“Even when you’re at an outlet, plug the power bank into the outlet and plug your phone into the power bank to charge. This will insulate your phone from a (theoretical) bad USB port. And you’ll have a portable power bank so you can charge your phone on the go, even when you’re away from an outlet.”

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Pivot Power, a London-based battery storage supplier and operator, will operate Arsenal’s battery for the next 15 years. But this could prove miniscule compared to what comes next, as the firm is also planning to roll out 50 megawatts of grid-scale batteries to homes across the United Kingdom. Forget Elon Musk’s house of the future — this could be the stadium of the future.

Chris believes that the average person shouldn’t worry about this but if they want to be extra cautious, he recommends travelling with a portable power bank and charging your device from that.

The H5000/H5001 hybrid inverter has been optimized through firmware to increase output and overload power. The continuous power output to the load is now 7 kW when the grid is present and 5.5 kW when the grid is absent. The H5000/H5001 can now also handle overloads for 240 V of 9.6 kW for 20s when the grid is present.