This weekend’s warm temperatures are a reminder about the impact weather can have on your car battery according to travel officials.
Jana Tidwell is a spokeswoman for AAA and she says we typically think about the harm cold weather does to our car batteries, but the heat can also cause damage.
“If your car battery is not running or functioning at optimum strength, the chances are that once we have that first heat wave that car battery is not going to survive,” Tidwell said. “If it does survive the first, it may not survive the second.”
Car batteries are expected to have a life of three to five years according to AAA.