Business Overview:

The battery reconditioning business is an eco-friendly, “green” business with six-figure income potential. This little known niche business is becoming more in demand as consumers are becoming increasingly environmentally conscious. Automobiles have rechargeable lead acid batteries in them. Often when a battery “dies,” the owner buys a new battery. However, by reconditioning their “dead” battery, you can save them 50% of the cost of a new battery and even offer them a warranty. You can also offer to recondition Ni-cd and Ni-mh batteries, expanding your business potential. If you want to help people with their batteries, business will be great for you. The basic skills to run your own battery business consist of learning how to recondition rechargeable batteries, how to rejuvenate dead batteries, how to measure a battery’s charge capacity, how to revert a reversed cell, and understanding why batteries need to be reconditioned. These are all very simple concepts to learn and for just a few hundred dollars you can quickly have your own battery reconditioning business up and running.

A Day in the Life of a battery reconditioning business owner:

This article brought to you by Business Ideas! If you enjoyed this article, make sure to subscribe to the Business Ideas Newsletter to get ideas sent straight to your email inbox.Your day may start out with customers bringing batteries to you in the morning. You will let them know the approximate time they can pick up their reconditioned batteries and what the cost will be. You will then spend your day reconditioning the batteries, or overseeing workers if you hire others to do this work for you. As the day progresses customers will drop by to pick up and pay for their reconditioned batteries. You will perform weekly inventory checks on your supplies to be sure you keep everything in stock that is needed to recondition the batteries.

The Good:

• The start up costs are low.

• It is easy to learn the basics of battery reconditioning.
• This business can be started on a part-time basis and move to full-time gradually.
• This business is easy to operate from your home.
• The overhead is low and the profit margin is high.

The Bad:

• The work is repetitive in nature.

• It can take some patience to build up your client list.

Resources:

• How Batteries Work
• Battery Information

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