Battery-charger-control designers face a fundamental choice: to use a part from the rich selection of dedicated charge-control ICs available from many vendors or to use a programmable microcontroller.

Recharging a mobile phone's internal battery usually occurs under control of a proprietary charging algorithm that resides in the baseband controller. The charger connects to the internal battery ...

Certain units of the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq and 2024 Cadillac Lyriq are included in a new Service Update from General Motors, which covers a fix for a battery energy control module issue. Affected ...

This article was updated with new information in December 2025. A vehicle’s performance starts–no pun intended–with its power source, making battery care one of the most important—yet ...