Over the past few years, we have run across some teams who, for the goal of attaining maximum power, chose to run without an alternator. We started thinking about that and decided to see if there were ...

Your car won't start for the second day in a row. You ask your neighbor for a jump (again) and head off to work — late, of course. You come to the conclusion that it has to be the battery or the ...

Car batteries fail without warning from the visible signs most drivers recognize. The internal chemical degradation that ...

Horse Sense:Before new alternators are released for sale, manufacturers evaluate their products using an industry-standard test sequence that covers a variety of outputs: maximum power, regulator set ...