When I wrote about battery electric vehicle (BEV) repairs in May, I talked about battery packs and missed something crucial that only a recent estimate made me see. This document came from a customer ...

Battery problems rarely arrive out of nowhere. Long before a car refuses to start or a phone dies at 20 percent, small changes in behavior reveal that the power source is struggling. I look for those ...

Kia EV9 high-voltage battery pack teardown by Munro & Associates reveals engineers likely thought about repairability when designing it. There are two access plates underneath for serviceable items.

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 ...

Ryobi is not exactly the Cadillac of cordless tools, but one still has certain expectations when buying a product. For most of us “don’t randomly stop working” is on the list. Ryobi 18-volt battery ...

A European repair shop reports that it has seen high failure rates when repairing Chinese-made LG NCM811 battery packs in certain Tesla Model 3/Model Y vehicles. Specifically, greater than 90% of ...

One Jeep Wrangler 4xe owner documents what really happens during a dealer recall visit after Stellantis recalled over 320,000 ...

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 ...

Watts says that just like his QX60, he’s going to purchase an extended warranty on his Tesla’s battery, which means that he ...

Andrew's love for all things automotive goes back over two decades to when he was a kid. Whether it was collecting Hot Wheels, building model cars, or going to NASCAR races with his family, he was ...