{"id":56196,"date":"2026-09-07T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/evs-are-changing-the-rules-of-motor-body-repair\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:57:11","slug":"evs-are-changing-the-rules-of-motor-body-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/evs-are-changing-the-rules-of-motor-body-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"EVs are changing the rules of motor body repair"},"content":{"rendered":"

As South Africa marks World EV Day on 9 September, the country’s growing adoption of electric vehicles is highlighting how dramatically vehicle technology is changing the motor body repair environment.<\/p>\n

Electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have become an increasingly familiar sight on South African roads. Motorists are discovering that repairing these highly sophisticated vehicles after an accident requires a different approach from conventional vehicles.<\/p>\n

According to the South African Motor Body Repairers' Association (SAMBRA), a proud association of the Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI), the country's motor body repair industry is adapting rapidly to the new technology, but there are still practical challenges that can occasionally affect repair times.<\/p>\n

Juan Hanekom, National Director of SAMBRA, says the biggest difference lies in the management of the vehicle's high-voltage (HV) electrical system.<\/p>\n

"Before certain…<\/p>\n

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As South Africa marks World EV Day on 9 September, the country’s growing adoption of electric vehicles is highlighting how dramatically vehicle technology is changing the motor body repair environment. Electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have become an increasingly familiar sight on South African roads. Motorists are discovering that repairing these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/ev-collision-repair-what-body-shops-need-to-know.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/ev-collision-repair-what-body-shops-need-to-know.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}