Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Inverter generators are an elite breed of portable generators. And as a group, they outperform their conventional ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Portable gas generators have received some technological makeovers in recent years. One is critical to safety, and one ...

The best portable generators and power stations offer a practical backup for outages big and small, keeping critical devices ...

As a group, inverter generators perform better than regular portable generators in almost every way, according to our testers. They’re quieter. They run more efficiently, which means you don’t have to ...

There are a lot of solid reasons to have an inverter generator. Without power, you are cut off from just about everything, and while that may feel like a great idea at times, it can also be a pretty ...

Standard portable electric generators are rather simple in operation. An internal combustion engine spins an electromagnet inside of windings of wire conductors to produce an electric current. For a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We don't usually talk or think about generators, but they can be real lifesavers when power outages happen. A backup generator will keep your ...

Inverter generators are a relatively new technology that efficiently produces very clean power in a lightweight package with reduced noise output. The main drawbacks include increased purchase price ...