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Car trouble symptoms: Car battery light came on steady while driving your car.

Car problem diagnosis: battery light that came on steady while you drive the car is an indication of a serious problem with the car that may result to car stalling and leave you stranded.  This kind of problem is usually cause by a problem on the alternator. The alternator is the one that provides charge to your car battery wherein all the electrical equipment inside your car gets their power.  The alternator is a device that is driven by the use of a belt that is connected to your car flywheel which also coupled with the car engine. 

Usually the indicator light came on when the belt that drives the alternator where broken or when the alternator is failing to generate electricity to supply into the battery.

Car problem: Broken alternator belt or Bad alternator (Failing alternator)

Car shop advice: When the car stall while the battery light was on, no other option but to have the car towed to a car shop. However, when the car is still drivable the first thing to do is to park the car on a safe area then stop the engine. Open the hood of your car then locate the alternator.  Check if the drive belt is broken if the belt was intact then the problem is the alternator. In any case you may still drive the car to the nearest garage and have a new belt put on or have a mechanic to check on the alternator to know if the alternator can be repaired depending on the extent of problem.  Probably you may have 1 hour to consume your battery reserve capacity before it drained out since the battery will not be charge by the alternator.