Electric cars don't need to go to the garage as often because electric motors have far fewer wearing parts and the cars themselves require less maintenance. Or, in the case of Tesla, they don't need to go to the workshop at all, as everything is done via over-the-air updates. Our guest on the Geladen podcast, Detlef Peter Grün, Vice President of the German Association of the Automotive Trade, disagrees. E-cars also need to go to the garage, even if the type of maintenance is different. He is proved right by the latest TÜV Süd report, in which Tesla's Model 3 fails the TÜV test more often than average, which is also said to be due to the fact that Tesla does not have fixed service intervals.
For garages, electric cars mean conversion work on their premises and high-voltage training for their staff. In principle, however, Grün believes that garages in Germany are well equipped for electromobility. What is often missing are the electric cars. The fact that the ramp-up of e-mobility is slower than originally predicted means that garages are left high and dry.
