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2409, 2018

September Blog 2018 .. Passion

By Craig Van Batenburg|2018-09-24T13:41:14-04:00September 24th, 2018|

I ran an auto repair shop for over a quarter century. What did it teach me? Patience. Financial awareness. Planning. Listening. Discipline. These qualities served me well as boss, husband, [...]

1307, 2018

What is a “HOOD CHECK?” July 2018 Blog

By Craig Van Batenburg|2018-07-13T16:53:20-04:00July 13th, 2018|

Reducing Come Backs and Stress As a Shop Owner or Manager, a “come back” can be the worst part of your day. I remember a time when my new [...]

305, 2018

May 2018 ACDC Writes a College EV/PHEV/HEV/FCEV book plus more

By Craig Van Batenburg|2018-05-03T14:10:55-04:00May 3rd, 2018|

ACDC New College Level EMV Text Book What does it take to write a college text book and why did Craig (and many others helping) do it? It [...]

403, 2018

March 2018 Blog … Your 12 volt Brain needs a Higher Voltage Setting

By Craig Van Batenburg|2018-03-04T19:46:31-05:00March 4th, 2018|

If you first learned about cars with a 12 volt system that ran on gasoline or diesel you were, without knowing it, developing what I call a “12 volt brain”. [...]

3101, 2018

We lost a Great Man and Friend 10 Years Ago. Remembering Stan Stephenson

By Craig Van Batenburg|2018-01-31T18:53:25-05:00January 31st, 2018|

February 8th, 2008. 2:12pm in room 676 at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Pennsylvania; Stan Stephenson, his son Peter, Linda (a very close friend of Peter’s), and myself were together holding [...]

801, 2018

December / January 2018 Flying High

By Craig Van Batenburg|2018-01-08T18:48:45-05:00January 8th, 2018|

Deb and I took to the rails at the end of December and boarded an Amtrak train in Rhode Island and headed to Atlanta, Georgia. We arrived on January first [...]

412, 2017

November Blog … 29,000 10 to 17 year old Foster Boys are looking for help every year.

By Craig Van Batenburg|2017-12-04T20:59:08-05:00December 4th, 2017|

FAAT CATS helps Foster Teenagers find homes and a life If you have run a shop for any amount of time, finding and keeping good help is always [...]

709, 2017

How long before Electric Cars are Mainstream?

By Craig Van Batenburg|2017-09-07T18:45:00-04:00September 7th, 2017|

I talked to Marc Pons, a shop owner we work with in North Carolina, about this subject recently. If you read the Wall Street Journal or Automotive News out of [...]

208, 2017

Right to Repair in Massachusetts and Tesla

By Craig Van Batenburg|2017-08-02T17:57:51-04:00August 2nd, 2017|

In the fall of 2012 a referendum in my home state passed with a large margin to make Massachusetts the only state (still is) where an independent shop can sue [...]

507, 2017

July 2017 .. My new “TLOB” … what a car

By Craig Van Batenburg|2017-07-05T16:30:49-04:00July 5th, 2017|

2017 Chevy Bolt 60 KWh pack. I sent a request to Identifix for some technical information about the new 2017 Chevy Bolt ACDC has just acquired. Well guess [...]

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