Car Batteries About to Get Expensive in My Researched Opinion
At some point during your Automobile's life you will have to buy a new battery.
If you do not buy a new battery at that point you will overtax your alternator, and you could run into electrical problems because of this or belt problems because everything in your automobile is connected to everything else.
It is a complex system which relies on all of its parts much like the human body.
After all, if your central nervous system is having a problem, or one of your major organs, eventually it will affect all of the others in an adverse way and thus, shorten your life span or increase everyone's cost of health insurance.
Perhaps, this is why it is so important that the supply chain in the automotive industry keeps careful supply of all of the important replaceable components that we may need repairing our automobiles.
Now then, remember with car batteries, there are some cars now which run on electric power, and the batteries are even more critical.
These are not regular lead batteries, but high-tech batteries.
As we move closer to such a future, battery companies will be making more money selling these high-tech batteries than the old batteries that are in every single car as standard components.
There was an interesting article recently in China Economic Review titled; "China shutters battery plants in lead poisoning crackdown" on May 31, 2011 which stated; "More than 300 people, including 99 children, were found to have been poisoned by a lead battery plant in Zhejiang.
Since 2009, more than 4,000 people have been affected by more than 20 lead poisoning scandals in China.
Closures may lead to soaring prices for lead acid storage batteries if production stalls continue" Indeed, there was another interesting article the day before in the Financial Times on May 30, 2011, which stated; "China has shuttered battery factories in several southern provinces in the wake of a string of lead poisoning scandals that has put pressure on officials to crack down on heavy metal pollution" - and this brings up another point.
If these batteries are no longer made in China, and they have already taken over the world as the main manufacturer and supplier of these older batteries, then where will people get the batteries in the future? Right now, there are core charge fees when you buy new batteries, but in the future you may not be able to get a new battery, unless you bring in the core so they can refurbish it.
Or you are going to pay quite a bit more money because China has shut down all these factories.
This may become a serious problem in the future.
As I scan the tea leaves I realize that information from such news sources is a bit irrelevant without proper analyzing.
It is my hope you will please consider all this and think on what it means to the automotive repair industry in the future.
If you do not buy a new battery at that point you will overtax your alternator, and you could run into electrical problems because of this or belt problems because everything in your automobile is connected to everything else.
It is a complex system which relies on all of its parts much like the human body.
After all, if your central nervous system is having a problem, or one of your major organs, eventually it will affect all of the others in an adverse way and thus, shorten your life span or increase everyone's cost of health insurance.
Perhaps, this is why it is so important that the supply chain in the automotive industry keeps careful supply of all of the important replaceable components that we may need repairing our automobiles.
Now then, remember with car batteries, there are some cars now which run on electric power, and the batteries are even more critical.
These are not regular lead batteries, but high-tech batteries.
As we move closer to such a future, battery companies will be making more money selling these high-tech batteries than the old batteries that are in every single car as standard components.
There was an interesting article recently in China Economic Review titled; "China shutters battery plants in lead poisoning crackdown" on May 31, 2011 which stated; "More than 300 people, including 99 children, were found to have been poisoned by a lead battery plant in Zhejiang.
Since 2009, more than 4,000 people have been affected by more than 20 lead poisoning scandals in China.
Closures may lead to soaring prices for lead acid storage batteries if production stalls continue" Indeed, there was another interesting article the day before in the Financial Times on May 30, 2011, which stated; "China has shuttered battery factories in several southern provinces in the wake of a string of lead poisoning scandals that has put pressure on officials to crack down on heavy metal pollution" - and this brings up another point.
If these batteries are no longer made in China, and they have already taken over the world as the main manufacturer and supplier of these older batteries, then where will people get the batteries in the future? Right now, there are core charge fees when you buy new batteries, but in the future you may not be able to get a new battery, unless you bring in the core so they can refurbish it.
Or you are going to pay quite a bit more money because China has shut down all these factories.
This may become a serious problem in the future.
As I scan the tea leaves I realize that information from such news sources is a bit irrelevant without proper analyzing.
It is my hope you will please consider all this and think on what it means to the automotive repair industry in the future.