MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- For over a year, Zachary Glaros hasn't been able to start his car without blowing into a tube to prove he's sober. The device took some getting used to, he said, but with three ...

A battery in a traditional car cannot directly create engine spark. It’s only rated at 12 volts, after all, so it needs a little help boosting the signal to the spark plugs. To make that happen, a car ...

An ignition coil takes voltage from the battery and multiplies it to create a spark at the spark plugs, which in turn ignites the engine. Cars have been using some form of the coil ignition system for ...

You can easily get carried away when trying to test things. For example, if you want to know if your car is working, you could measure the timing of the ignition and put the car on a dynamometer. Or ...

Again and again, we hear the tragic story -- a repeat drunken driver has killed a police officer, a beloved family member, a friend or colleague. Yet we are not ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Former Chicago Bears running back Cedric Benson was ordered Monday to install an ignition-lock breath tester in his car after he was charged with drunken driving. Benson was charged ...

ABSTRACT Primary diesel and gasoline reference fuels, along with secondary reference diesel fuels across a very broad cetane range were tested in an Ignition Quality Tester (IQT) unit using the ASTM ...