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Webinar: Prepare your shop for battery electric vehicles

This ShopOwner webinar is designed to equip its audience to better understand the EV technologies coming into shops.

By The Buzz Staff Writers
August 10, 2021

Our friends at ShopOwner are hosting a 60-minute webinar Wednesday, Sept. 1 at 2 p.m. ET covering the realities and forecasts of BEVs and the complexities associated with them.

Technicians and shop owners will leave this training with a better understanding of new technologies on the horizon, as well as the tools needed and training to prepare for them.

Questions answered in this webinar include:

What do these changes mean to your business?
When will you begin seeing EVs with maintenance or service needs?
What electrification changes are being made with internal combustion engines?
Will your shop be able to take care of vehicles with these new technologies?

Interested? Click here to register.

This webinar is sponsored by Mitchell 1.

BorgWarner acquires Hubei SSE charging business

SSE’s electrification capabilities in China are expected to complement BorgWarner in Europe and North America.

By David Sickels
March 9, 2023

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BorgWarner has agreed to acquire the electric vehicle solution, smart grid and smart energy businesses of Hubei Surpass Sun Electric (SSE). The transaction has an enterprise value of up to RMB 410 million (approx. $59.36 million).

Headquartered in Xiangyang, Hubei province, China, SSE’s electrification business supplies patented electric vehicle charging solutions to customers in China and more than 70 other countries. SSE says it has delivered over 50,000 charging points and has led the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of more than 250 charging station sites. SSE’s charging and electrification capabilities in China are expected to complement BorgWarner’s existing capabilities in Europe and North America, the companies say. SSE’s 2022 revenues for the electrification business are expected to be approximately RMB 180 million (approx. $26.06 million).