Tired of jump starting your car? Hunt down hidden power drains and stop whatever's quietly killing your battery.

Dan Sullivan, owner of Sullivan Training Systems and an electrical diagnostics trainer, calls for a change to electrical training for technicians.

If you’ve ever turned the key (or pushed the button) and got nothing but a sad click, you know the temptation: grab cables, flag down a helpful stranger, and get going. Jump-starting feels simple, ...

There is a near-endless number of resources to find in Marathon, and knowing where the real value lies is a trick in and of itself. In this guide, I'll show you where to go to find the all-important ...

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) is planning to rationalise the list of technologies that carmakers can classify as ...

Diodes' Q4 sales and earnings results beat the market's expectations. Diodes is forecasting strong sales growth and improving gross margins over the next three years. Diodes published its Q4 results ...

For the first time, researchers in China have demonstrated a high-temperature superconducting diode effect, which allows a supercurrent to flow in both directions. Published in Nature Physics, the ...

Production cars began using alternators in the 1960s. As part of the electrical system, alternators made it possible for cars to use higher voltage, and led the way to the modern car charging system.

Last week, I talked about troubleshooting a car-died-while-driving condition on my 1969 Lotus Elan +2, which I eventually traced to a broken contact face—on a set of points that didn’t even have 300 ...

Alternators are an essential component of any combustion engine, acting to continuously provide power to the car's electrical systems by recharging the onboard battery. Its parts are relatively simple ...

A hacker’s view on ESD protection can tell you a lot about them. I’ve seen a good few categories of hackers neglecting ESD protection – there’s the yet-inexperienced ones, ones with a devil-may-care ...

Your car won't start for the second day in a row. You ask your neighbor for a jump (again) and head off to work — late, of course. You come to the conclusion that it has to be the battery or the ...