Charging your car battery is usually the first job you should perform if your car won’t crank when turning the key. You can easily do it from home, so don’t worry about calling a professional. Battery ...

Sooner or later, most drivers encounter the inevitable inconvenience of a dead car battery. You don’t need to be an expert auto mechanic to know that without a running battery, your car won’t start.

Karl is a Senior Editor at CarBuzz and first joined the company as a freelancer in 2019. After graduating as a copywriter and studying journalism, his early work life included stints in television ...

This article was updated with new information in December 2025. A vehicle’s performance starts–no pun intended–with its power source, making battery care one of the most important—yet ...

A DC-to-DC charger uses excess engine-alternator current, typically redirected from the starting battery bank, to charge the house battery bank. This can also be performed by an automatic charging ...

This is no joke: I recently woke up from a nightmare where my motorcycle wouldn’t start. Subconsciously, I’d been thinking about the fact I hadn’t ridden it in seven weeks and knew that was taking a ...

It has happened to most of us hasn’t it? You sit in the car, turn the ignition and… *crickets*. Yup, the battery is dead. Yikes! You probably didn’t drive the car for the past few days or you ended up ...