Towing an electric vehicle requires different precautions than an internal combustion engine vehicle, whether you’re moving it across the shop lot or picking it up miles away. An EV that looks to be powered down may still be capable of moving, and improper towing can...
A charging port fault on an EV requires treating the charging port area as a potential source of high-voltage exposure. It’s crucial to acknowledge that before any work begins, regardless whether the fault code that’s triggering the inspection looks minor or not....
For over 27 years, Walter Yonkaitis has been much more than Midtronics Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He’s the person who has built a legacy around showing up early, staying late, taking...
Battery testing without documentation is an incomplete service, and in some situations it’s no service at all. A test result that lives only in a technician’s head or in a verbal summary to the service advisor disappears the moment the vehicle leaves. The test reveals...
Testing a lithium 12V battery with a conventional lead-acid tester will produce a result, but there’s a real chance that result is wrong, and wrong in a way that looks completely legitimate on the printout. Lithium iron phosphate chemistry behaves differently enough...