Most drivers expect their car to start without hesitation, but the battery behind that reliability does not last forever. On average, a standard car battery lasts about three to five years, while ...

️ 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 ...

Driving your car to every event or on every occasion is only a good idea sometimes. After all, it may be inconvenient or impossible due to traffic jams or construction, or you may just go on holiday ...

When it came time to locate all the engine management electronics relating to our 383 build, of which we'll be wrapping up next month, it occurred to me that it would be a disservice to simply mount ...

A hybrid car battery is like any other battery—except that it is rechargeable and has enough juice to move a large heavy vehicle down the road for a few feet or a few miles. Like all batteries, hybrid ...

A development program looked at multiple combinations of SMC with short glass and carbon fiber — with and without unidirectional (UD) carbon fiber prepreg (the hybrid is often called tailored SMC) to ...

Here atSTREET RODDERwe're continuously exposed to awesome street rods as well as the opportunity to meet and associate with builders and fabricators of immense talent. As a result we get a chance to ...