About
Three shops. One honest count.
EV Partners publishes what really breaks on hybrids and EVs, counted from three independent shops' repair orders.
Why EV Partners exists. Real repair orders, counted, instead of guesses from forums.
Owners of a hybrid or an EV find plenty of opinions about what fails and what it costs, and very few counts. Three independent shops that have fixed these cars for years keep careful records of every job.
EV Partners counts those records, one way across all three shops, and publishes what they show in the EV Repair Hub. Each report links down to the shops' own write-ups, and every number on it is counted live.
Earthling Automotive15,709
Atomic Auto14,556
Mile Hybrid Automotive5,893
What EV Partners does
Counts the three shops' repair orders, by the same rules at each shop.
Publishes reports in the EV Repair Hub on what fails, what the shops check and what the repair involves.
Links every report down to the shops' own write-ups, on their own sites.
Shows where each figure comes from, and corrects it in the open when it is wrong.
What it never does
Fix cars. The shops do that, and every report ends at a shop.
Sell leads, or the shops' data, to anyone.
Take payment to place a shop or a product in a report.
Run advertising.
Who runs it. Opened years apart, still run by their founders.
Atomic AutoAtomic Auto opens in Portland, fixing Saabs, and turns into a hybrid shop as the cars change.
Travis started Atomic after years of fixing Saabs for friends. He still does a lot of the diagnosis, and answers a lot of the texts.
Earthling AutomotiveLuscious Garage opens in a SOMA warehouse in San Francisco, when hybrids were new and most shops would not touch them.
Carolyn built the shop around hybrids from the start, and wrote her own software to run it.
Mile Hybrid AutomotiveMile Hybrid Automotive opens in Denver.
Eric left about twenty years in technology to build the shop. Other Denver repair shops now send it diagnosis and sublet work.
Mile Hybrid AutomotiveMile Hybrid's first hybrid work: reconditioning Prius battery packs.
Earthling AutomotiveThe software Carolyn built at Luscious Garage becomes Shop-Ware. All three shops now keep their repair orders in it.
Earthling AutomotiveThe San Francisco shop moves to Bayshore Boulevard as Earthling Automotive.
EV Partners counts the three shops' records as one network: 36,158 repair orders on hybrid and EV work so far.
Meet the shops