silicon anode Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 28 Jul 2015 07:42:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Future Tesla Batteries Will Be More Affordable Thanks to Silicon https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-battery-silicon/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-battery-silicon/#respond Tue, 28 Jul 2015 07:42:52 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55968 Affordable but high-capacity batteries are becoming a thing of the present, and not the future anymore, as manufacturers strive to make battery technology better. Meanwhile, electric automobile manufacturer Tesla is looking even farther into the future, where expensive batteries are made affordable with silicon. Their new 90 kilowatt-hour battery pack, which includes silicon in the design, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-battery-silicon/feed/ 0 55968 Ultra-Efficient Silicon Battery Anode Made By Lockheed Martin and Rice University https://www.greenoptimistic.com/silicon-nanopores-battery-anode-20101014/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/silicon-nanopores-battery-anode-20101014/#respond Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:49:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11199 Lockheed Martin and Rice University scientists have recently discovered how to use the all-abundant silicon to make battery electrodes that could hold up to 10 times more lithium and enhance the battery's overall capacity from 300 mAh/gram to more than 3,000 mAh/gram. This could lead to an unprecedented rise in storage capacities for electric car batteries, in a crucial moment for their development.

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