Automotive
Why It’s So Much Harder to Start Your Car in the Cold
It’s no coincidence your car battery seems to struggle more during the winter months – cold has a significant effect on a battery’s ability to generate power. To understand why, you first should know the very basics of how a battery works. Read More
Automotive, Travel
Why Gas Prices Rise and Fall
There’s nothing you can do about the price you pay at the pump, forever at the mercy of what the marquee is reading at the moment. It’s frustrating, but knowing why you may pay $4/gallon one year and $2/gallon the next may help resolve some of the mystery. Built into a gallon of fuel is the cost of five key factors: Read More
Battery Basics, Phones & Other Portable Devices
Make Your Batteries Exercise for a Longer Life
Like humans, batteries age. And when they age they don’t work as well, until one day they just keel over and die. Like humans. Tragic, but such is life.
However; like humans, batteries last a tad bit longer.
Travel
Stay Entertained During Labor Day Traffic
Labor day is one of the busiest travel days of the year, which means it’s one of three worst times to travel, both by air and by road. If you’ll be behind the wheel this labor day weekend and traffic is inevitable, here are some ways to keep you entertained while you wait –
Automotive
7 Ways to Increase Your Gas Mileage
While the list could go on, here are the easiest and quickest fixes you could implement to get a bit more out of each gallon and stretch your dollar a bit further in the process!
How to Weego, Phones & Other Portable Devices
Pokemon Go: A Phone Battery’s Demise
For those of us in our late 20s, this Pokemon Go craze has been a major #TBT – I remember collecting the cards and playing Pokemon on my Game Boy during long road trips when I was in elementary school. Like most crazes, especially those geared towards a younger crowd, it inevitably expires as the attention span moves onto the next exciting thing. RIP Pokemon, see you again never?
Automotive, How to Weego, Weego Current Events
Weego 44
After a lot of time, hard work, and grit, Weego has unveiled our newest and most innovative Jump Starter, the Jump Starter 44! With the successful launch and tenure of our original series, we learned a TON about what people need and want from their jump starters. In addition, we’re always trying to make our products simple and safe for our customers – jump starting shouldn’t have to be rocket science, and it shouldn’t put you in danger, either.
How to Weego, Outdoors
Take Weego Camping
Summer is the season to get out of your house and into the great outdoors, and there’s no better way to fully immerse yourself than to go camping. Even if your car is nowhere in sight, though, you shouldn’t leave your Weego behind. A lot of Weego’s emphasis is put on jump starting, but we can’t forget that “Portable Power” is our battle cry in the war against dead batteries!
Automotive
Torque, RPM, and Horsepower
Torque, RPM, and Horsepower (HP) are terms often heard when discussing a car engine, but most don’t understand what those terms tell you about performance. We already did a blog post about HP [here], but now it’s time to bring in the other parts of the HP equation and explain how they’re all related. We’ll keep it simple and basic:
How to Weego
Summer Cocktails
Summer is in full swing, which means many a cocktails are being had while soaking up the sun beside the water. At Weego we’re a bit biased towards all things orange, so these are our favorite orange summer cocktails to sip on in the heat: