Some Things About New Cars, by Eric Peters

New cars have all sorts of great new features that don’t seem great at all. From Eric Peters at ericpeters.com:

To say cars aren’t like they used to make them is like saying flying commercial isn’t like it used to be.

For one thing, many new cars that aren’t electric cars (or even partially electric cars) have two batteries now. One to start the engine and other to re-start the engine. Over and over and over again. This is the second battery that is part of the automatic stop-start system pretty much all new cars with engines now come standard with in order to eke out fractional per-car increases in gas mileage and reductions in CO2 “emissions” that – when factored out over a manufacturer’s fleet of vehicles – helps the manufacturer comply with the latest slew of gas mileage and “emissions” regulations.https://rumble.com/embed/v4112ek/?pub=ef2yp

This second battery is necessary to keep the primary battery from being discharged to such an extent that it hasn’t got the power to start the engine when you try to start it. But it also draws power and so depletes charge – kind of like leaving the dome light on by accident. That’s why the ’24 Dodge Hornet I tried to test drive recently didn’t start – and eventually had to be towed to a Dodge dealer.

If you have a car with two batteries, it will likely also need to be towed to the dealer when the second battery needs to be replaced – because you probably won’t be able to replace it yourself as it’s buried deep within the guts of the car and requires that the car be plugged in – to a computer, at the dealership – to successfully replace it with a new second battery.

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