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Beyond the Plug: Why Singapore’s EV Revolution Demands a New Approach to Maintenance

Electric car servicing represents a profound shift in automotive maintenance culture across Singapore, a quiet revolution unfolding in workshops where combustion engines have given way to high-voltage systems. For Farid, a 53-year-old mechanic who has spent three decades perfecting the art of timing belts and fuel injectors, the transition arrived suddenly. "Twenty-eight years working with engines that explode thousands of times per minute," he says, scanning a diagnostic tablet, "and now I'm essentially a computer technician with a torque wrench." The Vanishing Art of Traditional Maintenance The change sweeping across Singapore's automotive service landscape tells a story of rapid transformation....