What is a “HOOD CHECK?” July 2018 Blog
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 [...]
May 2018 ACDC Writes a College EV/PHEV/HEV/FCEV book plus more
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 [...]
March 2018 Blog … Your 12 volt Brain needs a Higher Voltage Setting
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”. [...]
We lost a Great Man and Friend 10 Years Ago. Remembering Stan Stephenson
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 [...]
December / January 2018 Flying High
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 [...]
November Blog … 29,000 10 to 17 year old Foster Boys are looking for help every year.
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 [...]
How long before Electric Cars are Mainstream?
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 [...]
Right to Repair in Massachusetts and Tesla
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 [...]
July 2017 .. My new “TLOB” … what a car
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 [...]
May / June 2017 … Zen … Why I blog … EV Questions
When a monthly bog is done over two months, it means one thing, ACDC is busy. But writing this helps keep me sane. Some would say it is not working. [...]
