How was 2025 you ask?
I often define ACDC as a motor vehicle high voltage training center that provides training for your future. What drives me, what is my passion? Three people (two I have never met) I used as mentors when I was a teenager. That would be in the sixties. They were Soichiro Honda, Joe Bolger, and Abbie Hoffman. All were born before 1940. Soichiro started the Honda Motor Company. Joe was a Honda motorcycle dealer, inventor, New England Motocross Champion, East Coast editor for Cycle magazine, and my boss. Abbie was born in Worcester, Massachusetts (my home town) and was a troublemaker in the 60’s and an environmentalist in his later life.
Let me explain how I came into this industry. In 1967 I bought a Honda motorcycle and marveled at its design that Soichiro Honda had created. Six months later I met Joe Bolger and he hired me to work at his Honda motorcycle shop. Abbie Hoffman spoke to a generation that was not buying into the American dream. With the insight of these three very different points of view, I developed my world view.
Our company is in its 49th year of business. These three men had vision and what they spent their lives doing has all come true. Mr. Honda; Be creative. Go to the source of any problem and fix it there. Abbie; Don’t get greedy. Expect the best from people. Question authority. Take care of your friends. Joe; Do the best job you can. Craftsmanship can still be profitable. Never stop learning.
Last year started off just fine. By the end of February many corporate customers were backing away from adding electric vehicles to their fleets. Funding for more charging stations was stopped. Tariffs were driving up prices. Elon Musk was getting into politics that scared off many potential Tesla buyers. Used Teslas lost a lot of value. ACDC felt that strain on continuing to move into a cleaner climate. As most of us know, the first year of the new administration was not helping slow down the warming of the earth. ACDC had gone through the pandemic and were virtually closed for 18 months. We are a mature company with significant assets, but last year was not the year I expected. The solution, add EV service for the public. WorcesterEVs.com was born out of this change. We will get to our 50th year in good shape. In fact, we will be better as a training company because of it. The future looks bright.
We have developed our third class for Massachusetts technicians so that money will not be a barrier to their EV education. From a 5 day HD electric truck class to 80 hours at ACDC for light duty techs, the classes are free, but only in my home state. We have shops coming from all over America to learn from us and investing their time and money.
Why so few blogs last year? I needed to accept the changes and that took some doing. New plan, more motivation. I hope your 2026 is good for you and your family.
