For the most part, it’s simple. Your car or truck has a battery, it supplies electricity to the bits that need it, and that’s all you care about. Until something goes wrong or you want to do something ...

Rivian owners have designed an adapter kit to replace the proprietary 12-volt lead-acid batteries in their vehicles with cheaper, off-the-shelf parts. A complementary solution could also allow keeping ...

AKRON (Jan. 15, 2007) — There's an old saying among electrical specialists that a vehicle's starter or alternator is only as good as the battery to which it's connected. That said, too many service ...

We talk and worry a lot about batteries: their life, safety issues, charging/discharging, temperature effects, and many other issues, so much so that it is easy to forget a vital link in the ...