Starting your car in the dead of winter presents myriad issues, but none is worse than trudging outside and turning the key only to find your battery doesn't have enough juice to kick the engine over.

Although internal combustion engines rely on burning fuel and air to run, they do need some help starting up in the first place. In the old days, that could mean standing outside your car and getting ...

An engine's static compression ratio is only a rough indicator of its ability to tolerate a particular gasoline octane ratio. The real key isnumbers. Most engine builders say 175 to 185 psi cranking ...

Whether your car is electric, internal combustion, or remote-controlled, it will have a battery. Here we focus on internal combustion and what you need to know before making a purchase. There are two ...

Because of its mass, a battery takes a long time to change temperature. If a vehicle sits out all weekend in a zero-degree environment, it might take 30 hours to warm up the battery. Use the outside ...

Electronic engineers working in the automotive area are sooner or later faced with a 'Cranking Test Pulse'. These test pulses describe the drop of the battery voltage during cranking of the engine and ...

While we like to think of 2002 as being part of a high-tech age, our beloved internal combustion engine hasn't really changed much in the last 50 years. We're still using pushrods and overhead valves, ...

An engine's static compression ratio is only a rough indicator of its ability to tolerate a particular gasoline octane ratio. The real key isnumbers. Most engine builders say 175 to 185 psi cranking ...