You are going to be reading a lot about electric vehicles both on this website and in the magazine as well as on our weekly podcast, The Edge. While EVs have been slow to take off in Australia they are now gathering momentum, so it’s high time you got up to speed. To help you do that we’ve got Dean Lander back on the show: Head of Repair Services at Thatcham Research over in the UK.
Shorter journey times in the UK have enabled EVs to take a firm foothold in the market, with a far higher take up than in Australia. There is a lot we can learn from our friends up in the northern hemisphere, so we’d better start learning it. Dean was kind enough to tell us how it is and what we can do to prepare ourselves for a future of EVs and ADAS.
In this week’s episode you will learn:
- The growth of EVs in the UK
- Is the industry ready for the growth of EVs?
- The increased risk of working on a car with 1000V of current
- How to train your staff to manage EVs safely
- The importance of good signage
- Will you need a different workshop to work on EVs?
- How insurers are assessing the capability of EV repairers
- How the pace of change is set to increase
- Different calibrations of ADAS
- The increasing threat of undiagnosed ADAS faults
- Why repairers should be thinking about autonomous vehicles