Browsing Posts tagged Cars

Been wanting to buy a battery jumper for my car in case my battery dies and no one is around to help jump my car. I see quite a few for sale but the affordable one i want says it charges all 12 volt lead-acid, flooded or sealed maintenance free batteries (AGM and gel cell). [...]

Its the thing that goes over the top of those pieces that you connect the jumper cables to, and the one I currently have is red but its too big and I need to find a smaller one, but I dont know what its called.

I noticed my new cars will start left after >3 weeks without being driven, but my older needs charging after 5 days (with new battery). Why is this? Incomplete charge? old wiring?

My car battery was completely dead, or so I thought, but when my friend and I went to jump start the car nothing happened. The car wouldn’t start and none of the electronics would work either. Do you think it is a problem with the battery or the electronics? Please only educated answers. Thanks for [...]

My hummer’s battery is dead after not driving it for two weeks. I thought it was a bad battery but when i brought it to autozone they charged it for 4-5 hours and it was working perfectly again. I was curious what setting i should put my charger on (6 volts…12 volts boost…) and how [...]

When a cars battery runs out of energy and you use another car to give it energy with jumper cables. Does the good car feed the bad car with energy from its battery? The longer I leave it plugged and running does it charge more or is it a waste of time?

I am interested in learning about the many parts that make up a lithium ion battery, who the major suppliers are, and the (current and upcoming) tech associated with these batteries. I can’t even find a diagram of a lithium ion battery with its sensors, harnesses, etc. Thanks!

Why can’t you hook both cables to the battery terminals?

I am building my own electric car from spare parts. So, I’m going low budget. I want to make my own lithium battery. How difficult would this be?

The dead battery be used? When I read directions for jump starting cars, they never tell you to connect it to the dead battery’s negative terminal but instruct you to connect to engine block. Can the ground be any part of metal on a car?