The battery that enables starting of a car dies after some period of use but faults from other areas can shorten its lifespan. Examples are faulty alternator and bad battery terminals.
The cooling system is a key system of automobiles that controls the temperature of the engine and transmission. Modifying it can cause undesirable consequences on fuel economy, longevity, safety and so on of vehicle parts.
Hybrid cars are known to greatly improve mileage for city driving. They also improve mileage for highway driving too due to some advanced technologies that are incorporated.
Some modern transmissions do not require oil maintenance because they are filled with lifetime fluid that supposedly last the lifetime of the transmission.
The eCVT in hybrid cars have electric motor/generator sets in it which the engine and regenerative brake system uses to charge the hybrid battery. A wrong transmission fluid in it will cause short circuit, malfunction and damage.
When the fan of hybrid battery becomes noisy and fast continuously, it points the the fact that there is something wrong with the hybrid battery or the battery's ventilation system.
A bad wheel alignment implies that angles of the wheels are not set correctly. This makes the engine to work harder to overcome the resistance at the wheels.
Electric cars are the cars of the future but in Africa, there are enormous challenges with the adoption and use of electric cars, the foremost being the lack of cheap and available power supply.
