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...
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...