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...
Why Battery Documentation Is as Important as the Test Itself
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...
What 12V Lithium Batteries Mean for Testing
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...
Diagnosing Range Complaints That Aren’t Battery Degradation
Range anxiety used to be a consumer problem. Now it's becoming a service department problem. As more electric vehicles roll past their warranty periods and into service bays, technicians and service advisors are dealing with a growing number of range complaints from...