First, let’s clear the air: Optimate is not Optima. The former is a European-engineered brand of battery chargers; the latter is a maker of those red-and-yellow AGM batteries you’ve probably seen in ...

Convenient battery charger with automatic function and clever charging tech to rescue ‘dead’ batteries Battery chargers. They’re all the same, right? Not quite, it seems. If you’ve tried to use one of ...

The Optimate 4 has several microprocessor controlled stages that analyze, desulfate and charge motorcycle and automobile batteries. I evaluated and reviewed the Optimate 3 only a few months ago in the ...

With smartphones becoming increasingly smarter and incorporating multiple functions, it's not a surprise that their role in motorcycling has increased. However, their batteries have now kept up with ...

Belgian producer Optimate has gone its own way with the interface on its chargers, and it’s nowhere near as intuitive as the simple LEDs used by rivals. Behind the confusing array of lights, there is ...