Your EV questions answered: Helping to separate electric vehicle myths from facts
If I buy an EV, does it mean I’ll have to get it serviced and repaired by expensive dealerships rather than local independent mechanics?
Which is why it’s best, for now at any rate, to bring your EV to a main dealer for servicing. Generally, servicing costs will actually be lower than for a combustion engine car, as EVs have fewer moving parts, so there’s no oil to top up, no air filter to replace, no spinning mechanical bits that need inspection.
In general, what happens with car technicians is that they get trained up by the big carmakers and dealers, and then eventually they move on, and either work for or set up on their own as smaller independent garages, sometimes specialising in one particular make or even model, and are then able to offer much more affordable servicing and repair work than the main dealers but with that expertise and knowledge baked in.
As an example, Volkswagen Ireland’s head of training, John Cunningham, points out that “adjusting the tracking on a car used to be relatively simple, but now, when you do that, you have to show all of these high-end system that the tracking has been changed, otherwise things such as lane-keeping steering won’t be able to keep the car straight.”
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