Between the invention of the self starter and the end of the 20th Century, the best portable car jump starters weren’t ...

A lot of us will own a lead-acid battery in our cars without ever giving it much thought. The alternator keeps it topped up, and every few years it needs replacing. Just another consumable ...

Working on car electrical systems used to be easy. The battery simply provided power for the car’s starter motor when starting or to run the small number of accessories when the engine wasn’t ...

The trade-off is a much smaller and lighter battery pack. Lead-acid batteries are similar to traditional car batteries, ...

My car of the future is an electric racecar ... and see how far I could go with one kilowatt/hour (1.3 hp) of lead-acid battery. So far it's 53 miles in one hour, an Electrathon National Record.

There are three main types of car batteries: lead-acid, absorbent glass mat, and lithium. Check your battery's label and determine which type you have in your car. Many hybrids and plug-in hybrids ...

It is based on what’s old-is-new-again technology: lead-acid, with a twist. The battery is a gel lead-acid implementation, developed in collaboration with VDL Groep, a diversified Dutch ...

In what might seem like a headscratcher, China is now urging its citizens to trade in their lithium-ion battery-based electric bikes for newer models with sealed lead-acid batteries (SLAs).