Celebrate National Battery Day – February 18

February 18 Is National Battery Day

On National Battery Day, February 18, do something nice for that trusted power source in your car! Clean it up, have it checked out and make sure it doesn’t die on you just when you’re depending on it. Use hashtag #NationalBatteryDay to tell us what you're doing for your batteries on National Battery Day!

interstate-batteryIt sits there, forgotten, out-of-sight under the hood. No recognition, no appreciation, no TLC. It does its job every day, reliably. Unless you do something to it, or ignore it and don’t maintain it. Then, you call it every inappropriate name in the book, question its parentage and threaten it with banishment.

On National Battery Day, February 18, do something nice for that trusted power source in your car! Clean it up, have it checked out and make sure it doesn’t die on you just when you’re depending on it.

Use hashtag #NationalBatteryDay to tell us what you’re doing for your batteries on National Battery Day!

 

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