An electrical contractor in Austin, TX, posted a super-informative blog post about understanding AC and DC electrical currents. This is what the differences boil down to: "DC" means "direct current".

AC and DC current are to EVs what petrol and diesel are to traditional combustion-powered cars. You can think of them as ‘fuels’ to fill up your electric car’s battery. Unlike when choosing the ...

The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen and ...

Batteries aren't one-size-fits-all, and neither is the way they're wired to your house. Here's what you should know about AC- and DC-coupling. When we think about solar panels and batteries, we don't ...

As the story goes, the rock band AC/DC took its name from a label on an old sewing machine in the Young brothers’ home. It must have meant that the machine could run on either alternating-current or ...