Sono Motors and Bosch Automotive Aftermarket Confirm

• The Munich-based Solar Mobility OEM Sono Motors and the Long-Established German Company Bosch Will Collaborate for Servicing and Repairing the Sion Within the Framework of the Bosch Car Service Workshop Concept.
• During the Launch Phase in Germany, 50 Bosch Car Services Will Be Trained and Qualified as Authorized Service Centers for the Sion, Sono Motors’ Solar Electric Vehicle. More European Countries Are to Follow within the Course of the Subsequent Rollout.
• In Addition, Sono Motors Intends to Provide the entire Approx. 22,000 Independent Car Repair Shops in Germany with an Abridged Version of the Sion’s Factory Service Manual.

MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sono Motors (subsidiary to “Sono Group N.V.,” NASDAQ: SEV), the Munich-based photo voltaic mobility OEM, and the well-renowned German firm Bosch have agreed to cooperate on a joint Europe-wide community of automobile restore outlets. Within the framework of the Bosch Car Service workshop idea, all upkeep and restore companies shall be supplied in keeping with fashionable requirements. Owners of the Sion, Sono Motor’s photo voltaic electrical car, will be capable to use all companies supplied by taking part automobile restore outlets, together with restore, servicing, upkeep, and guarantee companies. In different phrases, due to the Bosch Car Service community integration, Sion house owners will be capable to extra simply discover a competent restore store accomplice in Europe. The general 50 certified Bosch Car Services to be educated within the launch section shall be distributed all through Germany in such a means that each main cities and rural areas shall be lined. Additional certified service facilities shall be added within the subsequent rollout to create a complete service community accessible in lots of European nations.

Highly Qualified Bosch Partner Workshops
The employees at Bosch accomplice workshops will obtain complete prior coaching from Sono Motors after which they are going to be approved to carry out repairs on high-voltage, photovoltaic, and security programs with the help of, if mandatory, Sono Motors Technical Field Service. All restore, guarantee, and proactive companies could solely be carried out by approved accomplice workshops, which shall be recognizable by an indication saying ‘Sono Motors Service Partner’ outdoors the automobile restore outlets. To make it even simpler to seek out the best restore store, Sono Motors plans to offer a workshop finder on its web site.

“We are proud of our strategic partnership with Bosch Car Service, a professional partner for all things automobile, which we believe demonstrates the reputation that we are gaining as an OEM. The Bosch brand represents top quality, and the workshop experts at Bosch Car Service perform their service and repair work according to modern standards. All of this makes Bosch a perfect partner for Sono Motors in order to offer our customers comprehensive, Europe-wide services,” says Laurin Hahn, CEO and co-founder of Sono Motors.  

“In Sono Motors we have found an innovative partner who is exploring the exciting field of solar electric mobility. The innovative technology and skills provided by Sono Motors to the Bosch Car Service network ensures that customers will receive reliable services for their vehicles. This further underlines the Electric Vehicle competence of Bosch Car Service and helps to win and retain also new customer groups,” says Thomas Winter, Vice President Workshop Concepts at Robert Bosch.

The cooperation between Sono Motors and Bosch contains complete restore, service, and proactive service work. In addition, Sono Motors encourages all Sion house owners to carry out their very own repairs each time doable. “To us, the Sion is a symbol of independence. Of course you should take your car to a repair shop when there is a problem, but we want our customers to feel confident enough to perform minor repairs, such as replacing a light bulb or a wiper blade, themselves,” says Laurin Hahn. As an accompanying measure, Sono Motors plans to offer tutorials for sure DIY upkeep on its web site.

ABOUT SONO MOTORS
Sono Motors is on a pioneering mission to speed up the revolution of mobility by making each car photo voltaic. Sono Motors’ disruptive photo voltaic expertise has been engineered to be seamlessly built-in into quite a lot of car architectures — together with buses, vans, trailers, and extra — to increase vary and scale back gas prices in addition to the impression of CO2 emissions, paving the best way for climate-friendly mobility.

The Company’s trailblazing car, the Sion, would be the world’s first inexpensive photo voltaic electrical car (SEV) for the lots. Empowered by a robust world neighborhood, Sono Motors has over 20,000 reservations with advance down-payments for the Sion as of 1 September 2022.

ABOUT BOSCH AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET
The Automotive Aftermarket division (AA) supplies the aftermarket and restore outlets worldwide with fashionable diagnostic and restore store tools and a variety of spare components – from new and trade components to restore options – for passenger automobiles and industrial automobiles. Its product portfolio contains merchandise made as Bosch unique tools, merchandise developed in-house and particularly manufactured for the aftermarket, in addition to companies. About 13,000 associates in additional than 150 nations, in addition to a world logistics community, be sure that spare components attain prospects rapidly and on time. AA provides testing and repair-shop expertise, diagnostic software program, service coaching, and info companies. In addition, the division is accountable for the “Bosch Service” repair-shop franchise, one of many world’s largest unbiased chains of repair-shops, with some 15,000 workshops, and greater than 1,000 “AutoCrew” companions.

PRESS CONTACT
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