With aluminum wheels, if they sit in salt water or even cars that park near the ocean the salt eats away,” he said. “I saw a car the other day, we opened the hood the aluminum brace (under the ...

Q: I just read your column “Is salty water reused in car washes?” As a retired chemical marketer who has dealt with salt solubility issues, I suggest you look further into the issue of whether ...

“A few days of salt on your vehicle isn’t going to do damage, so maybe next week after this whole king tide is gone, then people should thoroughly wash their cars, shoot water inside the brake ...

When salt is thrown on an icy or snow-covered road, it lowers the freezing temperature of H 2 O and melts the snow and ice, which is sprayed all over your car by traffic and your own tires. But it’s ...

Salt is where rust comes from, and rust is a killer of cars. Road de-icing methods alone cause $3 billion in rust damage annually, as AAA notes. But why is salty slush so much worse than plain water?

Q: I just had my car washed at a popular local facility. I watched almost every customer hit the “free” under-carriage rinse button. Could that rinse water be recycled from the wash pro… ...

Unlike regular charging stations for electric cars, which are fairly easy to install, it would require an entirely new network of stations that could handle switching out 100-gallon tanks of fluid.

It's easy to take clean, safe water for granted. It just flows out of taps continuously — even in drought-ridden California. But for hundreds of millions of people around the world, clean water is a ...

The dream of building a car that runs on water could soon be a reality, just not the one you might have expected. A California company is hoping to supply 20% of the world’s lithium by 2020 with ...

The resulting fires occurred despite a near-constant warning from the media to move electric cars out of harm’s way. Said Tampa Mayor Jane Castor: “Water and ion batteries do not mix. They ...