Mahle electric car service

Mahle electric car service

Mahle and the US company Midtronics, Inc. have agreed in a declaration of intent to jointly develop service devices for electric vehicles. The aim of the partnership is to offer workshops a safe and effective service for the important Li-ion battery. The offering should range from battery diagnosis to maintenance – regardless of brand and across the entire life cycle of the batteries and vehicles. Mahle brings its knowledge and experience in refrigerant and fluid service, ADAS calibration, BatteryPRO solutions and vehicle diagnostics to the partnership. Midtronics contributes its expertise in monitoring, inspecting, diagnosing and maintaining low and high voltage batteries. Together, both companies can offer a complete range of services for electric vehicle batteries, which will make up a large part of the future business of independent workshops.

"In the age of electromobility, battery service will take on a completely new meaning for independent workshops. With our partnership with Midtronics, we are opening a new chapter for service devices," explains Georges Mourad, Director Global Service Solutions at Mahle. “Due to the pace at which battery and electric vehicle technology is evolving, no company in the automotive service world has yet been able to provide this level of service,” said Will Sampson, president of Midtronics. With the transformation towards electromobility, the cost and complexity of batteries and systems for the automotive aftermarket is one of the biggest challenges in its history. The battery itself can represent over 25 percent of the total vehicle cost and varies greatly from vehicle to vehicle. At the same time, the proportion of vehicles with electric drive systems (battery electric and hybrid vehicles) is expected to increase to 95 percent in Europe, 90 percent in China and 75 percent in North America by 2035. Battery service could therefore soon represent half of the workshops' total services.