Portable jump starters are effectively defibrillators for your car. Instead of borrowing power from a donor vehicle, they use a small but brawny battery to provide a similar injection of ...

Learn the essential steps to safely jump start a dead car battery using basic equipment and proper safety precautions.

How to Jump Start the Battery I have Milwaukee cordless tools which use 18-volt batteries—that’s about 3 volts more than your car’s alternator generates to charge the battery.

Fortunately, there are several practical solutions you can use without needing a jump-start from another car. From portable jump starters, to battery chargers, these are some of the alternative ...

It's easy to make mistakes when you're under pressure, and jump-starting a hybrid the wrong way definitely counts as a mistake. Just how bad is it?

Like traditional gasoline cars, hybrids do have an engine and a battery, but is it actually possible to use those to jump-start another car? We took a look.

This process becomes muddied if you are driving an electric car, especially a Tesla vehicle since they require some wildly convoluted procedures to jump start when their 12-volt batteries die.