Excellent Batteries

You can find Excellent Batteries over in Kurla West, specifically in Sangam Apartment at shop number two. It is not a very big space, but it’s packed from floor to ceiling with all kinds of batteries. We have those heavy lead-acid ones for cars and smaller ones for home backups. The floor is usually a bit stained from the stuff we work with, and there is always that faint smell of chemicals in the air. It’s just a regular neighborhood shop where people drop by when their car won’t start or their inverter goes quiet. We’ve been in this building for a good stretch of time now. Most people around here know us by name. It gets quite loud outside with the Kurla traffic, so we usually have to talk a bit louder to be heard over the horns. We don’t have a website or anything like that. People just walk in or call us on the landline when they are in a fix. We spend a lot of time testing old batteries to see if they can still hold a charge or if they’re completely dead. It is honest work and it keeps us busy from morning until we pull the shutters down at night. Sometimes the tea guy from around the corner brings us a few cups while we are in the middle of a job. It is a simple life running a battery shop in this part of Mumbai.