Greentec Auto

Modern hybrid gasoline electric cars have been around for over 20 years now and the excellent longevity of their batteries is well doc Still here at Motor Week we are constantly asked what happens when the battery fails. Well, FYI reporter Stephanie Hart has found a green mobility firm that's ready with answers. In 1999 the Honda Insight became the first modern gasoline electric hybrid car to be sold in America, but it was the Toyota Prius that made hybrid driving popular here. We visited one, the Luscious Garage in San Francisco back in 2013. But now that hybrids have been around for two decades, major parts in these cars are starting to wear out and that includes the hybrid's battery. We now know it can take 10 years or 100,000 miles before a hybrid battery loses serious muscle. For most hybrid ve But more than a few owners of hybrid cars have learned the hard way that an unexpected battery failure can leave you stranded. That's where GreenTech Auto enters the picture. They're a service company that not only sells new and refurbished hybrid battery packs, but will install them for you as well and they even make house calls. I'm here in Bowie, Maryland at one of their shops and let's take a closer look and watch as they install those EV batteries. We remanufacture and manufacture hybrid batteries, NEV batteries for cars that are losing their range and miles per gallon. Paul Raz So we started about 10 years ago in the back of our dad's repair shop. We grew up working on hybrid cars and all kinds of cars actually changing oil, changing tires, brakes. And our sister had a Prius and her battery went bad and we looked online and we tried to reach out to the repair shops to see who can fix her battery and there was no one out there. So we figured out how to fix them, we figured out a way to make them work and last and eventually st At the time there were few aftermarket and independent service options. Drivers were forced to replace dead batteries at the dealers GreenTech Auto's goal is to offer a more affordable solution. Their main battery pack distribution facility is in Kansas City where they s If that dreaded red triangle of death comes on, technicians here can save the day. They can come to you and install a new battery at your home, your work or even if you're stranded by the side of the road. So we do have a proprietary method that we've developed in the last 10 years on testing these batteries. When we receive a core from a customer we'll go completely through it, refurbish, replace the parts that need to be replaced, test the batteries and whatever we can use we use and what we don't use we recycle the right way. Testing ends up in a landfill and if it's a Some end up being used as backup power for golf carts, paying it forward w If it's not the battery a lot of times these cars have in-burr issues or transmission issues we'll do whatever we can to fix the car. We're not here just to change the battery. The car has moving towards an electrified driving future with plug-in cars that have batteries many times the size of an early hybrid. As they become common it's clear that more entrepreneurs