My car (2013 Impreza) wouldn’t start the other day. It had been near 0°F overnight. The accessories seemed to work just fine, but nothing from the starter, not even a weak turn over and then die. Jumping with my NOCO jumper failed. Based on some possibly inaccurate results from a multi-meter and charger, 10V and only taking 2A, I bought a new battery.
Continue reading post "Impreza: New battery"I would like to see electric cars adopt hybrid energy storage / generation systems. An advanced controller would direct electricity to and from each system based on which is considered best at handling the current situation. If one has failed, it would simply be cut out of usage. It might include batteries, a generator, capacitors, compressed air systems, etc. A system like this would:
I replaced my nearly eight year old car battery with an Interstate from Costco today.
Continue reading post "#3196"It has been a long, weird evening, with a lot of time spent on computer updates and a dead car battery.
Continue reading post "#2916"I had a weird loss of a git commit when my battery died unexpectedly.
Continue reading post "#2520"I went out to my car today to find the battery dead.
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