If you notice your vehicle isn't starting as it should, it's important to check your battery and clean the terminals to ...

Years ago when I still lived in a campus apartment at Ohio State University, I passed by two college kids cluelessly tinkering underneath the hood of a Hyundai Elantra. I had deduced that the car ...

You can jump-start a dead car battery by using jumper cables to connect its terminals to the terminals of a functioning car ...

Some drivers have to jump start their cars regularly when temperatures drop. Here's why car batteries are so sensitive to low ...

These tricks are as handy as a pair of jumper cables. If you get behind the wheel only to discover that your car’s battery has given up the ghost — and there’s no one around to give you a jump — you ...

I'm sure anyone who's ever jump-started a car, replaced a car battery, or built a small 12V DIY nipple-torture device has seen this: a powdery, white and blue and maybe sometimes green substance on ...

Brian Cooley is CNET's Editor at large and has been with the brand since 1995. He currently focuses on electrification of vehicles but also follows the big trends in smart home, digital healthcare, 5G ...

Dear Tom and Ray: I am a junior in high school. In my physics class, the teacher claimed that touching a car's battery terminals could electrocute you. I started laughing and said I know from ...