Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About three times a day, Rich Benoit gets a call to his auto shop, The Electrified Garage, from the owner of an older Tesla Model ...

About three times a day, Rich Benoit gets a call to his auto shop, The Electrified Garage, from the owner of an older Tesla Model S whose car battery has begun to fail. The battery, which used to ...

"You’d be playing with fire if you didn’t know what you were doing." Mechanics are repairing broken EV batteries for a fraction of the cost: 'There's a lot … that could be repaired' first appeared on ...

Used electric cars promise quiet commutes and lower fuel bills, but the fine print on repairs is getting harder to ignore. Independent shops and veteran mechanics are increasingly steering customers ...

The potential high cost of EV battery replacements is a major worry for new-car shoppers, but that likely won't be the case for long, according to battery-analysis firm Recurrent. Recurrent, which ...

I have written about this for some years already, but having data backup always helps. The China Insurance Research Institute (CIRI) investigated the battery pack part-to-whole ratio of 59 battery ...

The battery stores the electrical current that your vehicle uses to start and passes electricity along to the parts of your vehicle that need it to function, such as the ignition system, lights, radio ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. About three times a day, Rich Benoit gets a call to his auto shop, The ...