AAA technicians busy installing car batteries due to cold snap – WSB-TV Channel 2

ATLANTA — “Twenty-four different batteries on this car and we’re ready to install right away,” said Evron Brown.Brown with AAA said that’s exactly what he’s been doing all day on Friday. “The cold can get into the batteries, that’s really low on cell capacity; it will affect that battery.”Brown told Channel 2′s Larry Spruill they have been been busy. “We’ve been hammered. We’ve been hammered. That’s all it’s been mostly, was batteries.”[DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]Brown said below freezing weather can really hurt an automobile, especially in Georgia, since Georgia normally doesn’t experience brutal temperatures. “The cold weather, gets in and hurts the cells inside the battery. So when the battery is not being recharged enough, the cells inside with the cold weather, they won’t reactivate.”And that gives you a dead…

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