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EVS franchises specialist electric-vehicle workshops. China is the opposite of every other territory in the network: the cars are already here in the tens of millions, and the aftermarket that should be serving them is not. The 2020-2023 cohorts are leaving warranty now, and the workshops they are leaving it into mostly cannot measure a battery.
China's new-energy parc passed 43.97 million vehicles. The cars sold in 2020-2023 are coming off cover now, which is the first time at this scale that owners have had to choose a workshop rather than be sent to one. The demand does not need creating — it needs somewhere to go.
Yicai Global has reported independent repairers in Shanghai unable to obtain the calibration data and equipment to finish a driver-assistance job. That is the gap: a shop that can read a battery pack, calibrate a sensor and document both is competing with shops that can do neither, on work the dealer network prices at a premium.
The most common large bill on an out-of-warranty EV is a pack replacement that a module, a contactor or a cooling circuit would have solved. Being the workshop that measures before it quotes is not a marketing line here — it is a five-figure difference to the customer, and it is why they come back.
Shanghai-Suzhou-Hangzhou ranks first of four clusters on premium multi-brand density, imported-platform share and technical labour supply. One properly equipped site reaches a parc larger than most countries, and the fleet operators in it — ride-hailing, rental, delivery — buy predictable turnaround rather than single repairs.
Territory applications go through the group site, which runs the qualifying, the NDA and the territory review. It takes a few minutes to start.
Capital and qualifying requirements are set out during the application.
Diagnostics, repairs and maintenance from technicians who work exclusively with electric vehicles.