Baking soda and water can be a good, inexpensive mixture to clean corrosion and crud from a car battery. Extreme temperatures affect battery performance so take steps to limit the impact. It’s early ...

There's been a huge push to adopt electric vehicles. They're better for the environment due to lower tailpipe emissions, are cheaper to maintain with fewer moving parts to replace and service, and ...

If we’re being honest, laptop batteries can’t last forever. But if you care for and maintain yours, you can keep it healthy for years. You buy a new laptop, and for the first few months, the battery ...

From AA to AAA, C to D, 9V to 23A, it’s crucial to know how to store disposable batteries, including what to do with them when they no longer work. In this guide, you’ll find expert advice from those ...

Maximize your long-term battery health. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Adopting a few smart habits can preserve your iPhone battery health, greatly extending the device’s useful lifespan. By ...

You try to turn on your car, and it just won’t start. Maybe the dashboard doesn’t even light up. A likely cause: The 12-volt battery is dead. All cars lose a little battery power when parked. If you ...

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 ...

Your iPhone battery health plays a key role in maintaining the device's performance and reliability. Over time, all rechargeable batteries degrade, but how quickly they do so depends largely on how ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a ...

We don’t always have the answers, but we have some people on speed dial who do — which is why we present to you our FYI series where we have experts explain if lip balm is actually bad, how often you ...