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1401, 2021

2020 … a look back at our Industry and Covid-19 January 2021 Blog

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:27-04:00January 14th, 2021|

How do you experience 2020? ACDC is a very international business, but most of our business in 2020 was in the States as travel restrictions stopped travel, for good reasons [...]

312, 2020

December 20 .. My Lucky Day Craig’s Blog 2020

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:27-04:00December 3rd, 2020|

On December 20, 1977 Van Batenburg’s Garage opened up for business. It was warm for that time of year in Massachusetts. The shop I worked at all summer has closed [...]

1611, 2020

Fall 2020 Covid19 , the US election and in person classes

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:27-04:00November 16th, 2020|

The US election is over, Covid 19 is out of control and has ACDC suspended our in-person classes until February. Great ending to a very weird year. For those of [...]

909, 2020

Summer of 2020 Corona Virus … Covid 19

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:27-04:00September 9th, 2020|

ACDC has re-open for live classes ACDC is playing it safe when it comes to Covid 19. We are limiting classes to 4 students and not using hotels or restaurants. [...]

606, 2020

June 2020 Civil Unrest

By Craig Van Batenburg|2024-10-13T15:03:27-04:00June 6th, 2020|

Civil Unrest There is another virus in America and other countries as well. If a Democracy was started while slavery was part of that beginning, racism is still a part [...]

205, 2020

Joe Bolger and the local Honda Motorcycle Shop .. Blog May 2020

By Craig Van Batenburg|2020-05-02T14:48:28-04:00May 2nd, 2020|

I was a motorcycle mechanic before I was paid to fix cars. In 1972 Honda came out with the Civic and once I was trained by Honda on this little [...]

1704, 2020

A word of en”Courage”ment April 2020

By Craig Van Batenburg|2020-04-17T15:30:57-04:00April 17th, 2020|

As a former shop owner turned hybrid / electric car trainer, this pandemic is the most disruptive event I have lived through. I have lived close to seven decades on this [...]

203, 2020

February – March 2020 Craig’s Blog … LIVC? What is it?

By Craig Van Batenburg|2020-03-02T09:53:48-05:00March 2nd, 2020|

LIVC Contrary to what you may have seen or heard, a real “Atkinson Cycle” engine is not used in any motor vehicle sold today. LIVC stands for ‘Late Intake Valve [...]

301, 2020

New Year 2020 .. January Craig’s Blog

By Craig Van Batenburg|2020-01-03T10:39:49-05:00January 3rd, 2020|

December 2019. End of a year, end of a decade. It was just about ten years ago when electric cars, that were affordable, were close to production. The Tesla roadster [...]

101, 2020

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By hybrid2020|2026-07-22T06:53:51-04:00January 1st, 2020|

Are You Ready to Start Repairing EVs?

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