Are you a fan of Optima Batteries? Need a new battery for your car or boat for summer? Then now may be the time to buy. For the month of June, Optima, the leader in high-performance batteries and ...

Chances are, your garage houses three or four different batteries. You’ve got the battery in your daily driver, another in your vintage Mustang, and probably a few more in your lawn tractor, personal ...

Dead batteries. It’s a common problem with equipment and vehicles that sit for extended periods of time without being run. I know was an issue with the portable generator in my garage, which I forget ...

There are a laundry list of items on cars that you simply have to accept as sacrificial and will need to be replaced on a regular basis: oil, fuel, tires, filters, and, of course, batteries. Most of ...

️ Editor's note: This article was updated with new information in December 2025. Dead batteries are a predictable reality for any car that spends more time parked than driven. Battery discharge does ...

Few Canadian drivers ever thought of needing a battery maintainer just a few years back, but with the multitude of electronics and computer modules packed into today’s vehicles, all drawing power to ...

There are a laundry list of items on cars that you simply have to accept as sacrificial and will need to be replaced on a regular basis: oil, fuel, tires, filters, and, of course, batteries. Most of ...

A half-dozen batteries sit on a pallet on the shop floor headed for the recycler. All six considered “dead” by the normal standards because none would take a charge — or the shop’s battery charger ...