DJI has quietly introduced a powerful new car charger for its giant portable batteries. The $299 / €269 Power 1kW Super Fast ...

Sooner or later, every car will have a failing alternator, which means drivers could be stranded with a dead battery if it’s ...

Its main parts are the battery, alternator and voltage regulator. If any parts of the charging system are worn, a vehicle will be hard to start or may not start at all. The battery stores the ...

This would eventually cause the alternator to overheat since the cooling ... only needs to run about 5 minutes before a dead battery has enough juice to crank an engine.

After jumping a car, it’s important to keeping it running for a while. The car’s battery gets charged by an alternator connected to the engine’s crankshaft with a belt. The belts turn the magnets ...

"This innovative solution turns waste heat from the engine's coolant into electricity, generating enough power to charge the battery and completely replace the alternator,” Michael explains.

If you think finding out you have a dead battery or bad alternator is frustrating, imagine finding out your car doesn't work ...

These do not charge the battery back up, but once the car is started its alternator will feed energy back into the battery (unless there is a pre-existing fault with the alternator or battery ...