I don’t drive my car very much and worry about the battery dying, as it has twice this week. What do you think about solar battery chargers for my 2008 Altima? It would be great not to waste time ...

Editor's note: An update made on January 18, 2023, on charger performance and availability three years after this story's original airing, follows the main story. When outlets are nowhere in sight, a ...

Acceptance, technology and marketing combine to make solar-powered devices extremely viable. And they’re also available for so many applications and the PulseTech Solar Pulse SP-5 is one of these.

The SPV1040 step-up dc/dc converter targets solar battery chargers for portable applications and employ Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), a technique for collecting the maximum possible energy from ...

These days just about any battery storage solution connected to PV solar or similar uses LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries. The reason for this is obvious: they got a very practical charge and discharge ...

PowerFlex is one of the largest installers of commercial solar in the United States and manages the nation's second largest Level 2 EV charging networks. Combined, its solar and energy storage ...

Summer is here, and with it comes glorious sunshine. As well as keeping your vitamin D levels topped up, the sun can be a free source of off-grid power for your gadgets. If the thought of your ...

Given a temperate climate, in the past you could park a car for weeks, even months at a time with little, if any, detriment to the battery. Once the car was shut down, the battery just sat there ...