Repair and service shops
The records an electric vehicle actually generates
An EV has no oil change and no exhaust, but it has a high-voltage system, a battery whose state you have to record, and a customer who researched the repair before arriving.
- Vehicle 2021 Nissan Leaf
- Fuel type Electric
- Form High-voltage check, built by the shop
- Lines answered 31, 7 photos
- Battery state Typed in by the technician
- Odometer 54,310 Km
- Report PDF, in the panel's language
The form has no battery-specific field. You build it from the standard parts: Yes/No lines, quality ratings, text boxes and photos.
What gets in the way
Sound familiar?
- Your inspection form was written for a combustion engine and half of it does not apply.
- Battery and high-voltage findings need to be on the record, with photos, not in a note.
- Customers arrive informed and expect a written answer, not a verbal one.
One EV, from the arrival to the written answer
An EV has no oil change and no exhaust, but it has a high-voltage system and a customer who researched the repair before arriving. Here is what MecanoPro does at each step.
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The record
Electric is a fuel type, not a workaround
Vehicle records carry Electric and Hybrid natively, so an EV fleet reports as one instead of hiding inside other. Each vehicle keeps its service history, mileage history, quotes, invoices, inspections and photos on one page.
- Decode VIN fills the year, make and model for passenger vehicles, from a US database, so a car sold in Canada can come back with very little.
- Mileage is kept in kilometres or miles, and the vehicle's current reading only ever moves forward.
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The form
Build the inspection you actually perform Growth and up
Your combustion-engine checklist is half useless on an EV. Build a high-voltage inspection field by field, drag the lines into the order a technician works in, and keep as many forms as you need, such as a safety check or a pre-purchase check.
- The parts you build from are Section Title, Yes/No, Quality evaluation, Brake and Tire inspection at four corners, Text box, Fuel gauge, Damage inspection and Odometer. There is nothing battery-specific.
- A form you change later never alters inspections already completed.
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On the vehicle
Findings with photos, not a note Growth and up
Battery and high-voltage findings belong on the record with their photos. Add up to five photos to any line and a comment by typing or dictating, and mark any damage on the vehicle picture.
- The inspection records the odometer, which adds to the vehicle's mileage history.
- A technician who finds extra work raises a Finding on the job, and the advisor prices it.
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The answer
Customers arrive informed and expect it in writing
Print the finished inspection as a PDF with the findings, the readings and the photos, and put the work on a quote the customer signs from their phone. Each job is approved on its own, so they can say yes to one thing and ask questions about another.
- A private status page with no sign-in shows the stage, the expected date and the photos.
- Work you send to a specialist is a Sublet line, beside labour, part and fee.
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The loaner
A courtesy car goes out on a record
If you lend a car while the EV is in, the courtesy cars module records the odometer, fuel and condition going out and coming back, the driver's licence and its expiry, and an inspection on each end.
- A clash check refuses a car already promised, and an overdue return alerts your administrators.
The parts of MecanoPro this shop uses
Each one is a real module, and each is explained on its own page.
Where it stops and you start
Electric is a different kind of work, and MecanoPro does not pretend to know the vehicle. Here is what it leaves to you.
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There is no battery-specific field
The inspection is built from standard parts. A battery's state of health is a line you add and a reading you type or photograph, and MecanoPro does not read it from the vehicle.
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The report is a PDF, not a send button
A completed inspection opens as a PDF you print or hand over. There is no one-click send of the report, so send the quote and hand over the report.
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A loaner has no charge level
The courtesy car's fuel field is a free choice from full to empty. There is no charge-level or charging field, so note the state of charge in the condition notes.
See it on your own jobs
Book thirty minutes and we will walk through it on your own work orders. No pressure and nothing to sign.
See it running on your own work orders
Thirty minutes, at a time that suits the shop. We load a few of your real jobs in and you tell us where it would break.