by Powertron Battery Co. | Jun 24, 2025 | Car & Motorcycle Batteries, Battery How-Tos, Battery Maintenance
Raise your hand if you’ve ever: Left the car lights on overnight. Experienced parasitic drain (we refer to your car battery, not your digestive system). Left the car sitting for weeks (unlikely in California, but not impossible). In all cases, a dead battery is...
by Powertron Battery Co. | May 28, 2025 | Car & Motorcycle Batteries, Battery How-Tos, Battery Maintenance
No battery, no trip to the supermarket, commute to work, or any of the thousands of little expeditions you take for granted. Minus a healthy battery, a car won’t start unless you’ve got a good set of jumper cables and a donor car to provide a charge. And...
by Powertron Battery Co. | Mar 5, 2025 | Car & Motorcycle Batteries, Battery Technology, Recreational Batteries
Your car battery has one job — to keep your car running reliably. However, it becomes weaker and less reliable with age. Most car batteries have a life expectancy of 3–5 years, but with a little TLC, you may be able to coax a couple of extra years out of a battery....
by Powertron Battery Co. | Feb 4, 2025 | Car & Motorcycle Batteries, Battery Technology, Recreational Batteries
Shopping for a new car battery — how complicated can it be? Maybe more than you realize. You should consider: Battery Type: AGM (absorbent glass mat) or traditional lead-acid? Cold Cranking Amps (CCA): Does the battery have enough juice to start your car reliably in...
by Powertron Battery Co. | Jan 7, 2025 | Deep Cycle Batteries, Battery Technology, Car & Motorcycle Batteries, Recreational Batteries
Most RV owners, solar energy enthusiasts, and people living off the grid have heard of deep-cycle batteries and may already be using them. Some can expound on the virtues and shortcomings of various brands, their chemical composition and capacity, and so on. We invite...
by Powertron Battery Co. | Dec 2, 2024 | Battery Technology, Car & Motorcycle Batteries, Recreational Batteries
Are you shopping for a new car battery? Then, you may have encountered the acronym “AGM” somewhere along the line. But what is AGM, exactly, and why have AGM batteries taken the automotive industry by storm? Is it yet another transient technology that will...
