AEVA calls for unrestricted access to EV technical information
The Australian Treasury is undertaking a review of the Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme. Treasury released a discussion paper and consulted with stakeholders between 30 June and 4 August 2025.
AEVA made a submission to this review. We made the following points:
- the Scheme should continue
- technical information for motor vehicle repairs should be as accessible as possible to repairers and to vehicle owners at minimal cost
- EV-related restrictions on 'safety information' in the Scheme should be removed, and it is not appropriate for the Scheme to be used as an indirect means of restricting who can work on EVs
- making available technical information about electrical systems does not in itself pose a hazard
- restricting critical information is fundamentally the wrong way to address safety practices within repairers: this appears to be simply anti-competitive gatekeeping.
Read the full text of the AEVA submission here.