"Electric drive not working" on 2021 1.4 e-Hybrid

[Shoveitpusher]

They might not have the infrastructure available to become BCCs (battery care centres), they might not want to become BBCs or maybe they are but they only cater for their own brands, for instance, you won't get a VW only BCC repairing a Seat, Skoda Audi etc.

That is each dealerships choice, looking at the few comments on this and similar posts suggests it’s an opportunity. I would point out I found 3 independent battery repairers in the same area.
Part of the issue is oems haven’t pushed for joint repair centres, there is no reason why there can’t be a vag repair centre, the powertrain is pretty much the same. The workshop mine is at has 2 big vag dealerships where the seat dealership is that couldn’t fix mine.

 

[James_R]

The MQB hybrid (Golf, Leon, Octavia, A3 etc) and MEB EV (ID.3/4/5/7, Born, Enyaq, Q4) platforms are the same right across the board.

There's a significant investment required from each franchise required to gain BCC status and the site would need to already sell/repair whichever brands they wanted to offer BCC services for.

I know of very few sites that cater for all the VWG brands in-house, I think there was one in Wales, but they decided to ditch the less favourable brands.

Independent battery centres aren't bound by the same restrictions dealers are. There's nothing stopping a business from taking batteries out and opening them up.

I did my IMI HVT training on a Prius, it was very basic training to gain a level 3 qualification, as is the system the Prius uses. You can take the battery out in 15 minutes without any specialist equipment.