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Driving Less? Let the sun maintain your car battery

The other day we had a post about the need to continue doing some basic maintenance on your car even if you are driving less in this age of higher fuel prices. One of the items we mentioned was caring for your battery. If you drive your car infrequently as I do (I drive a lot of loaner vehicles from manufacturers for review purposes) you may find that your battery eventually dies. Just as all the electronic gear in your house draws juice to light up all those LEDs, so to does your car for alarm systems, clocks etc. Even with nothing drawing ... Read more →

Windshield mounted solar car battery charger - the Sunsei SolarCharger

I have pondered (and posted) about a few ideas regarding charging the battery of your car with solar power rather than with the alternator, except when necessary. Here is a solar car-battery charger ...

Driving Less? Let the sun maintain your car battery 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The other day we had a post about the need to continue doing some basic maintenance on your car even if you are driving less in this age of higher fuel prices. One of the items we mentioned was caring for your battery. If you drive your car infrequently as I do (I drive a lot of loaner vehicles ...

Windshield mounted solar car battery charger - the Sunsei SolarCharger 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I have pondered (and posted) about a few ideas regarding charging the battery of your car with solar power rather than with the alternator, except when necessary. Here is a solar car-battery charger that you can get today. It's called the Sunsei SolarCharger, and you mount it on your windshield ...



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