Keeping one in your car's trunk means you don't have to rely on a passing traveler with a pair of jumper cables.

Be sure to park with the front of the operational vehicle close enough to the front of the dead vehicle so your jumper cables can reach between the two. This could be nose-to-nose, or with one ...

Fortunately, the participants in the video (after the jump) had their derelict ride well secured before pulling the old rope trick. We should mention a few safety precautions here. First ...

Jumper cables and portable jumper boxes are both tools used to revive a vehicle with a dead battery, but they have distinct differences despite sharing a similar end-goal. And with a plethora of ...

For years, the answer to a dead car battery was to hook it up to another vehicle using jumper cables. But, while this still produces the desired effect, and is likely to work as the cables are ...

these compact devices can jump-start your car wherever you are and provide emergency power on the go—without jumper cables or a second vehicle. Designed with safety in mind, these devices are ...

Or for anyone else. You just power it on, plug the connector into it, then clamp the red and black jumper cables to your car battery, wait for the charger indicator light to turn green ...