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602, 2023

Why are we talking as if EVs will go away?
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Why are we talking as if EVs will go away?

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:26-04:00February 6th, 2023|

As you can imagine an EV driver / technical trainer from Massachusetts may be suspected of being a liberal, tree-hugging, socialist that would demand we all drive EVs. So [...]

2712, 2022

How was 2022 at ACDC? I am glad you asked.
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How was 2022 at ACDC? I am glad you asked.

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:26-04:00December 27th, 2022|

Here are nine milestones we reached in 2022 at ACDC Most Classes were “Sold Out” ACDC finished our EMV book in June (five years in the making) Boston is using [...]

609, 2022

Tesla Training … September 2022

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:26-04:00September 6th, 2022|

In June of 2022, ACDC bought a used 2020 Tesla Model 3 extended range AWD. It sold new for about $70,000 and with the inflated used car market, we paid [...]

808, 2022

August 2022 … Why some Bloggers (like me) miss a month or three.

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:26-04:00August 8th, 2022|

It is August 2022 and I find myself getting up at 6am most days to make coffee. Decaf. Then off to my home office studying and writing about (you guessed [...]

804, 2022

Not Preaching to the Choir

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:26-04:00April 8th, 2022|

ACDC was asked last fall to put together a series of EV and HEV classes for the New England Tire and Service Association. This was held at This year was [...]

2402, 2022

Electric Motorcycles
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Electric Motorcycles

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:26-04:00February 24th, 2022|

The basic components of an Electric Vehicle are the same regardless of its size or number of wheels. The two-wheeled EMVs main drawback is range, as a motorcycle is small [...]

501, 2022

Why some Bloggers (like me) miss a month or three.
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Why some Bloggers (like me) miss a month or three.

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Why some Bloggers (like me) miss a month or three.

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:26-04:00January 5th, 2022|

It is 2022 and I find myself getting up at 6 am most days to make coffee. Decaf. Then off to my home office studying and writing about (you guessed [...]

1709, 2021

ACDC is very busy now after a quiet time

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:26-04:00September 17th, 2021|

As I look back at my life as a tech, shop owner and now a hybrid / EV training provider, the changes in technology, both the vehicle and information was [...]

1204, 2021

When the Industry Goes All-Electric Spring of 2021 Blog
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When the Industry Goes All-Electric Spring of 2021 Blog

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:26-04:00April 12th, 2021|

The writing’s on the wall for the internal combustion engine. Here’s what the future could look like, through the crystal ball of an EV/hybrid expert. March 20, 2018 By [...]

202, 2021

February 2021 A Cult Car the Original Honda Insight

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:26-04:00February 2nd, 2021|

The original Honda Insight has a “cult” like following. How did this odd looking hybrid attract so many fans? Honda introduced the first hybrid to America in December 1999. It [...]